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Of Cannibals (Part Two)
Culture & Social Affairs

Of Cannibals (Part Two)

I’ve always had a lot of time for sceptics. In some cases, you had to have a lot of time. There was the one who landed up in a ditch and refused to…

Bryn Haworth 15 February , 2020
When It Comes to Markets, Europe Is No Fading Power
Business & Economy

When It Comes to Markets, Europe Is No Fading Power

That Europe’s best days are over has become a common refrain. Journalists, analysts, and even world leaders observe that “the Continent’s grand unity…

Anu Bradford 14 February , 2020
The Precarious Foundations of Indian Democracy
Politics

The Precarious Foundations of Indian Democracy

In the last two months, widespread protests over a controversial new citizenship law inIndiahave raised the prospect of a constitutional…

Madhav Khosla 14 February , 2020
How to Diffuse Egypt’s Population Time Bomb
Politics

How to Diffuse Egypt’s Population Time Bomb

Egypt's population reached 100 million on Tuesday as a counter installed atop the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS)…

Yasmine El Geressi 14 February , 2020
Collision Course: Idlib Tests Russia-Turkey Relations
Politics

Collision Course: Idlib Tests Russia-Turkey Relations

The final stretch of Syria’s nine-year-old civil war in the northwestern province of Idlib is experiencing a deepening humanitarian crisis as…

Al Majalla - London 14 February , 2020
Dr. Simon Ourian: Meet the Kardashian’s Cosmetic Dermatologist Who Became Instagram’s King of Beauty
Culture & Social Affairs

Dr. Simon Ourian: Meet the Kardashian’s Cosmetic Dermatologist Who Became Instagram’s King of Beauty

What do Kim Kardashian-West, Kylie Jenner, Lady Gaga, Salma Hayek, Victoria’s Secret models and Brad Pitt all have in common? Well, they all get…

Yasmine El Geressi 14 February , 2020
Late Interfaith Dialogue Champion Ali El-Samman Honoured by the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies
Politics

Late Interfaith Dialogue Champion Ali El-Samman Honoured by the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies

The Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies (IDEO) in Cairo paid tribute to Ali El-Samman (1929‒2017) — an Egyptian statesman, a leading…

Al Majalla - London 07 February , 2020
Venezuela’s Problem Isn’t Socialism
Politics

Venezuela’s Problem Isn’t Socialism

In the last three years, tragic scenes of poverty and mayhem have dominated the coverage ofVenezuela, a nation that used to be one of the…

Moisés Naím and Francisco Toro 07 February , 2020
Brexit Is Just the Beginning
Politics

Brexit Is Just the Beginning

On the night ofJanuary 31, theUnited Kingdom officially left theEuropean Union. After almost 50 years of EU membership and three years of bitter…

Pippa Norris 07 February , 2020
Syria’s Kurdish Forces Hold Back the Tides
Politics

Syria’s Kurdish Forces Hold Back the Tides

InDecember 2019, just two months afterU.S.PresidentDonald Trumpwithdrew mostU.S.forces fromSyria, I crossed into the country fromIraqfor my…

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon 07 February , 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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