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How to Lose Friends and Strain Alliances
Politics

How to Lose Friends and Strain Alliances

Since launching the trade war in 2018,U.S.PresidentDonald Trumphas tried to corralU.S.allies into joining a wider struggle againstChina. So far, few…

Michael H. Fuchs 20 March , 2020
Argentina Stares Down Yet Another Default
Business & Economy

Argentina Stares Down Yet Another Default

How PresidentAlberto Fernándezhandles Argentina’s foreign debt crisis will define his legacy.When he took office inDecember 2019, the South…

Bruno Binetti 20 March , 2020
Science Can’t Save Us From Coronavirus Panic
Science & Technology

Science Can’t Save Us From Coronavirus Panic

OnFebruary 24, after theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) warned thatthe United Statesshould prepare for widespread domestic…

Amy Lauren Fairchild 20 March , 2020
The Problem With Using the Term “China Virus”
Politics

The Problem With Using the Term “China Virus”

On February 8, 2020 popular Asian tiktok user @jefo posted a video on the platform citing the anti-Asian racist content that has filled the platform…

Ali El Shamy 20 March , 2020
Iran’s Corona Complacency and Conspiracy Theories  
Science & Technology

Iran’s Corona Complacency and Conspiracy Theories  

Earlier this month, a video circulated around social media showing a man licking the shrine of Ali ibn Musa Al-Reza stating that he would “eat the…

Ali El Shamy 20 March , 2020
Iran Weakened by U.S. in Iraq and Crippled by Corona at Home
Science & Technology

Iran Weakened by U.S. in Iraq and Crippled by Corona at Home

While much of the world has ground to a halt amid the sweeping scourge of the coronavirus, another round of escalation has erupted between Tehran…

Joseph Braude 20 March , 2020
Lebanon, Hezbollah and the Coronavirus
Politics

Lebanon, Hezbollah and the Coronavirus

As if it was not enough that Lebanon was facing a financial catastrophe that pushed more people to the brink of poverty. Adding to all the economic…

Hanin Ghaddar 20 March , 2020
The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World
Culture & Social Affairs

The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World

This may well be the single most important book on Europe’s global influence to appear in a decade. Many believe that Europe’s…

Anu Bradford 20 March , 2020
The Shia vs. the ‘Shia Crescent’
Culture & Social Affairs

The Shia vs. the ‘Shia Crescent’

On February 15, 2020, Hezbollah organized a ceremony to unveil a statue of Qassem Soleimani in the Lebanese town of Maroun al-Ras, roughly…

Hanin Ghaddar 20 March , 2020
Stunned World Grapples with 'Once-in-100-Year' Coronavirus Battle
Science & Technology

Stunned World Grapples with 'Once-in-100-Year' Coronavirus Battle

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide were adjusting on Wednesday to once-in-a-generation measures to battle the coronavirus crisis that is not…

Swati Pandey and Ryan Woo 18 March , 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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