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'No One's Safe Until Everybody's Safe:' UN Official Warns of Global 'Boomerang' of Coronavirus
Science & Technology

'No One's Safe Until Everybody's Safe:' UN Official Warns of Global 'Boomerang' of Coronavirus

As major European countries cheered a drop in coronavirus death rates this week, a topUnited Nations officialwarned of a looming crisis in poor…

Deirdre Shesgreen and Kim Hjelmgaard 07 May , 2020
Revenge of the Pangolin?
Culture & Social Affairs

Revenge of the Pangolin?

Asked for her opinion regarding the coronavirus which had just appeared in China, Dame Jane Goodall, the conservationist and expert on chimpanzees,…

Bryn Haworth 01 May , 2020
Iran and the Coronavirus Crisis
Science & Technology

Iran and the Coronavirus Crisis

It is evident today that the Iranian regime has been lying about the number of Coronavirus deaths in the country. In the beginning of the crisis,…

Elie Fawaz 01 May , 2020
Hezbollah is on the Verge of Having Complete Hegemony over Lebanon
Politics

Hezbollah is on the Verge of Having Complete Hegemony over Lebanon

Over the past two decades, Hezbollah has been actively enforcing its hegemonic rule over Lebanon. Its journey to become the sole ruler of Lebanon…

Alia Mansour 01 May , 2020
It’s Time for an Independent Coronavirus Review
Science & Technology

It’s Time for an Independent Coronavirus Review

The coronavirus pandemic is perhaps the defining struggle of our era, but the global response to it has stalled over a question of scheduling.The…

Thomas J. Bollyky and David P. Fidler 01 May , 2020
Chinese Debt Could Cause Emerging Markets to Implode
Business & Economy

Chinese Debt Could Cause Emerging Markets to Implode

The novel coronavirus has brought the world economy to a grinding halt. Global growth is set to fall from 2.9 percent last year into deep negative…

Benn Steil and Benjamin Della Rocca 01 May , 2020
Can You Catch the Coronavirus Twice? 
Science & Technology

Can You Catch the Coronavirus Twice? 

On February 27, 2020, some news reports emerged that a woman in Osaka, Japan had tested positive for Coronavirus for a second time after seemingly…

Ali El Shamy 01 May , 2020
Kim Jung-un: The Rise of a North Korea’s Secretive Dictator
Politics

Kim Jung-un: The Rise of a North Korea’s Secretive Dictator

Kim Jong-un is thought to have been born on 8 January 1982 but some accounts have said he was actually born the following year, with his…

Al Majalla - London 01 May , 2020
Muslims in Jerusalem Pray Outdoors Amid Virus Lockdown

Muslims in Jerusalem Pray Outdoors Amid Virus Lockdown

Muslims in Jerusalem are praying outside in small groups during the holy month of Ramadan as measures aimed at curbing the coronavirus pandemic…

Majalla 01 May , 2020
Egyptian Dynasty of Big Cat Trainers Takes the Show Home
Culture & Social Affairs

Egyptian Dynasty of Big Cat Trainers Takes the Show Home

At his Cairo apartment, located just off a busy road along the Nile River, Ashraf el-Helw, a third-generation Egyptian lion trainer, prepares for a…

Majalla 01 May , 2020
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Grace Russell
Politics

Gulf states should steer clear of attritional war traps

01 April 2026

The US-Israeli war against Iran aims to draw in Gulf states, but history has shown that entering wars is far easier than exiting them. Prudence is needed now more than ever.

Khairuldeen Al Makhzoomi
Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin speaks at a press conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 25 August, 2025. Luka Dakskobler / Getty
Politics

'Israel is exploiting Iran war to kill a Palestinian state'

01 April 2026

PA Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin tells Al Majalla that Israel is taking advantage of the fact that the world is distracted by the US-Iran war to create irreversible facts on the ground

Ahmed Maher
Ewan White
Politics

Iraq's internal battle for influence comes to a head

31 March 2026

New fronts have opened up across the region in light of the US-Israeli war on Iran, as non-state actors with links to Tehran fear for their futures

Rustum Mahmud
People gather during a celebration called by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) at the Umayyad Square, after the ousting of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, 20 December, 2024. Reuters / Ammar
Business & Economy

US-Iran war gives Syria's global economic pitch more urgency

01 April 2026

Given the effective closure of the Hormuz Strait and Houthi threats to close off the Red Sea, Syria may emerge as a corridor and conduit to bypass these embattled maritime chokepoints

Charles Lister
Farid al-Madhan Reuters/ Al Majalla
Politics

Farid al-Madhan: Assad's fingerprints were on every picture

31 March 2026

A former army forensics employee who later became known as Caesar tells Al Majalla how he risked his life to expose the torture and killing of countless Syrians in regime prisons

Ibrahim Hamidi

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