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Is This the Beginning of the End of China’s Industrial Empire?
Business & Economy

Is This the Beginning of the End of China’s Industrial Empire?

Everyday the news reports on faulty medical equipment coming from China. Spain received 650 thousand ventilators from China that didn’t work, while…

Elie Fawaz 10 April , 2020
UK Labour Party Gets New Leader as Coronavirus Sparks Calls for National Unity
Politics

UK Labour Party Gets New Leader as Coronavirus Sparks Calls for National Unity

Sir Keir Starmer was elected by Labour Party members on Saturday to succeedJeremy Corbynas opposition leader following the party’s worst election…

Yasmine El Geressi 10 April , 2020
Why is the UK Behind on Coronavirus Testing?
Science & Technology

Why is the UK Behind on Coronavirus Testing?

On Wednesday, more than 900 people were reported to have died from coronavirus in UK hospitals in a day for the first time. The jump in deaths is the…

Yasmine El Geressi 10 April , 2020
Why is the UK Behind on Coronavirus Testing?
Science & Technology

Why is the UK Behind on Coronavirus Testing?

On Wednesday, more than 900 people were reported to have died from coronavirus in UK hospitals in a day for the first time. The jump in deaths is the…

Yasmine El Geressi 10 April , 2020
Iran’s Dark Post-Coronavirus Scenarios
Science & Technology

Iran’s Dark Post-Coronavirus Scenarios

In the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic that has paralyzed the world and shifted all states’ efforts inwards and towards the health of their own…

Hanin Ghaddar 10 April , 2020
Coronavirus Fuels Calls for Sanctions Relief on Iran, Opponents Hold Sway
Science & Technology

Coronavirus Fuels Calls for Sanctions Relief on Iran, Opponents Hold Sway

As coronavirus continues to spread across the globe, the ramifications of its outbreak in the Middle East have begun to stir a policy debate in…

Joseph Braude 09 April , 2020

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An Emirati man, wearing a protective face-mask, walks past a graffiti in Dubai on March 28, 2020.(Getty)

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Police inspector wearing coronavirus-themed helmet speaks to a family on a motorbike at a checkpoint during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Chennai, India on March 28, 2020. (Getty)

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Displaced Syrian children read a poster, outlining 7 steps to prevent the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus disease, at a camp for the internally displaced near Dayr Ballut, near the Turkish border in the rebel-held part of Aleppo province on March 22, 2020, during a campaign to prevent the spread of the virus. (Getty)

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Moroccans confined at home thank the authorities from their windows as security forces and health workers instruct people to return to and remain at home as a measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, in Rabat's district of Takadoum, on March 25, 2020. (Getty)

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A medic takes a break at the emergency department of the Louis Pasteur Hospital in Colmar, eastern France, on March 26, 2020, on the tenth day of a strict lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus). (Getty)

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A police officer chases street vendors in Kampala, Uganda, on March 26, 2020, after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni directed the public to stay home for 32 days starting March 22, 2020 to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (Getty)

Dr. Adhanom Ghebreysus: The Director-General of the World Health Organization and the Man Leading the Fight Against COVID-19
Science & Technology

Dr. Adhanom Ghebreysus: The Director-General of the World Health Organization and the Man Leading the Fight Against COVID-19

Early Tragedy Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysus was born on Wednesday March 3, 1965 in Asmara, Eritrea. The moment he remembers most…

Moncef al-Mazghany 03 April , 2020
Past Pandemics Exposed China’s Weaknesses
Science & Technology

Past Pandemics Exposed China’s Weaknesses

When the novel coronavirus first emerged in China’sHubei Province, foreign reactions to the country’s handling of the epidemic swung between extremes…

Robert Peckham 03 April , 2020
Ebola Should Have Immunized the United States to the Coronavirus
Science & Technology

Ebola Should Have Immunized the United States to the Coronavirus

In international crises, policymakers and politicians rarely have a dress rehearsal before their debut on the main stage. Yet in retrospect, the…

Christopher Kirchhoff 03 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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