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The rare earths powering industries and fuelling conflicts Eduardo Ramon
Business & Economy

The rare earths powering industries and fuelling conflicts

For thousands of years, metals have been linked to human advancement, from Stone Age tools made of flint to the iron that fired the factories that…

Abdulfattah Khattab 18 August , 2025
Putin sitting pretty after Alaska summit
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Putin sitting pretty after Alaska summit

Fares Garabet 17 August , 2025
Opinion

Sweida must be a warning, not a blueprint for northeast Syria

As Syria struggles to contain the fallout from the recent clashes in Sweida, tensions in the northeast are rapidly approaching a boiling point. The…

Haid Haid 17 August , 2025
How Gaza’s hakawati use storytelling to cling to memory and life Aliaa Aboukhaddour
Culture & Social Affairs

How Gaza’s hakawati use storytelling to cling to memory and life

In Gaza, stories are told not merely for amusement but as acts of survival, fragile bridges to a life that drifts further away with each passing day…

Houssam Marouf 17 August , 2025
Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at the 45th meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Kuwait City on December 1, 2024.
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Politics

Kuwait reforms bear fruit after decades of political deadlock

When Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah assumed direct leadership of Kuwait as its emir, he was swift to outline his ambitions for the country…

Khalaf Al-Duwai 17 August , 2025
Rupert Murdoch: the media mega-mogul taking on Trump Nash
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Rupert Murdoch: the media mega-mogul taking on Trump

When media mogul Rupert Murdoch said he was stepping down as chairman of Fox and News Corp in September 2023, with his son Lachlan replacing him to…

Con Coughlin 17 August , 2025
Opinion

Global outrage won't deter Netanyahu from Gaza occupation

Not only has Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announced plan to fully occupy Gaza sparked an international outcry, but it has also…

Con Coughlin 16 August , 2025
Instead of respite, Gaza's war-torn brace for full Israeli occupation Lina Jaradat
Politics

Instead of respite, Gaza's war-torn brace for full Israeli occupation

In the first week of August, a flurry of Israeli statements announced the government’s intention to fully occupy the Gaza Strip, imposing security…

Salem Al Rayyes 16 August , 2025
How Vision 2030 diversified the Saudi economy Al Majalla
Business & Economy

How Vision 2030 diversified the Saudi economy

In our first instalment of a two-part series on the evolution of Saudi Arabia's economy, Al Majalla outlined the beginnings of the country's…

Hussein al-Sharaa 16 August , 2025
Syrian Defence Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra and Turkish Defence Minister Yaşar Güler hold up an MOU on security cooperation in Ankara on August 13, 2025. Syrian Foreign Ministry
Politics

The implications of expanded Syria-Türkiye military ties

Diplomatic activity within and about Syria is currently running at a frenzied pace, as parties both internal and external jostle for position, ahead…

Omer Onhon 15 August , 2025
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Barbara Gibson
Politics

China’s Victory Day Parade: symbolic or seismic?

05 September 2025

Beijing would like the week to mark a historic turning point in which a unipolar world finally gave way to multipolarity. To others, it was just tub-thumping bravura. In reality, it was a bit of both.

Shirley Ze Yu
Business & Economy

Syria’s post-Assad energy quandary

01 September 2025

The country now sits at an energy crossroads: will its recovery be anchored in oil and gas, or will it seize the chance to lean into renewables and build something more resilient?

Jesse Marks
Pep Boatella
Politics

Disarming Hezbollah: will Lebanon seize or squander its opportunity?

02 September 2025

After Israel dealt Iran and its regional axis a string of crippling blows last year, Lebanon now finds itself better-positioned to reclaim its eroded state sovereignty. Will it grab the chance?

Frederic C. Hof
Al-Ma'arri in his residence as depicted in a 1965 book Wikipedia Commons
Culture & Social Affairs

Al-Ma’arri’s satirical poetry reimagined for today's readers

02 September 2025

Recent books from Yemen, Egypt, and Syria take a new look at the 10th-century philosopher's famed letter 'The Epistle of Forgiveness', which is said to have inspired Dante's 'Divine Comedy'

Ali Almuqri
Local residents walk past a house destroyed by an earthquake that killed nearly 1,000 people and devastated villages in eastern Afghanistan, on September 1, 2025. AFP
Politics

For Afghan quake victims, sympathy came faster than help

04 September 2025

An earthquake in Afghanistan earlier this week levelled entire villages and left people trapped under rubble for days, but in the shadow of the Hindu Kush, saviours were thin on the ground

Kaswar Klasra

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