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Iran, Devastated by Coronavirus, Seeks to Lift Travel Restrictions in a bid to Salvage Economy 
Business & Economy

Iran, Devastated by Coronavirus, Seeks to Lift Travel Restrictions in a bid to Salvage Economy 

Iranian authorities have yet to find their footing as the coronavirus outbreak continues to ravage the country and the demands of social distancing…

Joseph Braude 16 April , 2020
World Economy Working from Home Gets a Glimpse of the Virtual Future
Science & Technology

World Economy Working from Home Gets a Glimpse of the Virtual Future

The lockdown gripping much of the world economy has spurred a real-time stress test of the long-heralded digital future. …

Enda Curran 16 April , 2020
Xi Jinping Won the Coronavirus Crisis 
Science & Technology

Xi Jinping Won the Coronavirus Crisis 

Two months ago, Chinese PresidentXi Jinpinglooked like he would emerge from the novel coronavirus pandemic with his legitimacy and his ambitions…

by Yanzhong Huang 15 April , 2020

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A South Korean woman wears a mask while reading a book at Jogyesa Temple as South Koreans take measures to protect themselves against the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) on April 03, 2020 in Seoul, South Korea. (Getty)

April 14

A medical staff watches from a platform of the Gare d'Austerlitz train station on April 1, 2020 in Paris through the window of a medicalised TGV high-speed trains before its departure to evacuate patients infected with the COVID-19 from Paris' region hospitals to other hospitals in the western France Brittany region where the outbreak has been limited so far. (Getty)

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A homeless man eats food sitting in a marked circle outside a shelter during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in New Delhi on March 30, 2020. (Getty)

April 14

A Red Cross volunteer measures the temperature of a man before he can enter Nakasero market in Kampala, on April 1, 2020.. (Getty)

April 14

A woman prays in front of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem following the closure of the city for non-residents as a measure to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, on March 30, 2020. (Getty)

April 14

US President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House on March 25, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Getty)

The Coronavirus and EU Divisions?
Science & Technology

The Coronavirus and EU Divisions?

Back in February of this year, Health ministers from the EU 27 held a summit where they discussed the Coronavirus outbreak. German health minister,…

Ali El Shamy 10 April , 2020
The Grand Illusion of the American Dream
Culture & Social Affairs

The Grand Illusion of the American Dream

Davi Kopenawa is the genuine article, a shaman whose dreamworld is attuned to the wonders of the Amazon rainforest. What can he tell us about the…

Bryn Haworth 10 April , 2020
Queen Elizabeth II: The Monarch Who Has Tirelessly Supported the Nation For the Past 80 Years
Politics

Queen Elizabeth II: The Monarch Who Has Tirelessly Supported the Nation For the Past 80 Years

The House of Windsor Queen Elizabeth II is the current monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as well…

Al Majalla - London 10 April , 2020
China’s Coming Upheaval
Science & Technology

China’s Coming Upheaval

Over the past few years, the United States’ approach toChinahas taken a hard-line turn, with the balance between cooperation and competition in…

Minxin Pei 10 April , 2020
When the Pandemic Hits the Most Vulnerable
Business & Economy

When the Pandemic Hits the Most Vulnerable

Imagine if virtually everything about the United States’ ongoing response to COVID-19, the disease caused by thenovel coronavirus,goes wrong…

Robert Malley and Richard Malley 10 April , 2020
Abdul Halim Khaddam is Dead, Never Formally Apologised to the Syrian People Despite His Defection from the Assad Regime
Politics

Abdul Halim Khaddam is Dead, Never Formally Apologised to the Syrian People Despite His Defection from the Assad Regime

Abdul Halim Khaddam died in his Parisian home fifteen years after fleeing Syria and defecting from the Assad regime. Khaddam played a significant…

Alia Mansour 10 April , 2020
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People shout slogans as they gather after a two-week ceasefire in the Iran war was announced, in Tehran, Iran, 8 April 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
Politics

US-Iran ceasefire unlikely to hold

07 April 2026

If the ceasefire collapses, China has an interest in getting the two sides back to the table, but it would be a difficult task given Tehran's deep mistrust of the US and Israel.

Xiaotong Yang
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
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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