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Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa (L), accompanied by Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty (C), arrives at an airport in El-Arish on August 18, 2025, to visit Palestinians wounded in Israel's war on Gaza. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP
Politics

If Qatar taps out, Egypt can pick up the Gaza mediation baton

The reverberations of Israel’s airstrikes against Hamas negotiators in Qatar on 9 September are still being felt, as diplomats, policymakers, and…

Amr Emam 11 September , 2025
A Hezbollah flag is placed in front of the shrine of Shamoun al-Safa, built within a castle in the village of Shamaa in southern Lebanon's Tyre governorate, on January 31, 2025, that was heavily damaged by Israeli bombing. Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP
Business & Economy

Trump Economic Zone plan raises eyebrows in Lebanon

Since US President Donald Trump re-entered the White House in January, he has pursued with vigour a new US model linking security to economic…

Souraya Chahine 11 September , 2025
Doha strike: Israel goes after the Gaza negotiating table
Cartoons

Doha strike: Israel goes after the Gaza negotiating table

Fares Garabet 10 September , 2025
Qatar attack: Netanyahu puts Trump in an awkward spot Michelle Thompson
Politics

Qatar attack: Netanyahu puts Trump in an awkward spot

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to launch an attack against the leadership of Hamas during a meeting at their Qatar headquarters…

Con Coughlin 10 September , 2025
Israel escalates war against Hamas with Doha strike Axel Rangel Garcia
Politics

Israel escalates war against Hamas with Doha strike

Israel carried out a strike targeting Hamas leadership in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday, marking a major escalation. This was seemingly the first time…

John Haltiwanger 10 September , 2025
Opinion

What does Israel want from Syria?

The fall of the Assad regime at the end of last year was the biggest blow yet to Iran and its so-called “Axis of Resistance.” For decades, Syria had…

Ibrahim Hamidi 09 September , 2025
A man checks the destruction inside the heavily damaged Syrian army and defence ministry headquarters complex in Damascus, following Israeli strikes on July 16, 2025. Bakr ALkasem / AFP
Politics

Why a Syria-Israel security agreement is so important

In recent days, reports have indicated plans to sign, on 25 September during the UN General Assembly, an Israeli-Syrian agreement focused on security…

Michael Harari 10 September , 2025
A new book on Syria zeroes in on the impact of absence
Culture & Social Affairs

A new book on Syria zeroes in on the impact of absence

The Dubious Novelist by Syrian author Fawwaz Haddad is a densely woven story of a nation in the iron grip of a dictatorship. Teeming with characters…

Abdul Rahman Mazhar Halloush 10 September , 2025

Zebra doves, Banksy art and more from the world

DEVI RAHMAN / AFP
DEVI RAHMAN / AFP

Cages with zebra doves are seen during the Piala Raja (King’s Cup), an annual bird song contest in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on September 7, 2025.

JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP
JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP

An artwork by street artist Banksy depicts a judge using a gavel to beat a protester using a placard as protection on an exterior wall of the Royal Courts of Justice, Britain's High Court, in London on September 9, 2025.

Eyad BABA / AFP
Eyad BABA / AFP

A vehicle towing a cart and transporting displaced Palestinians fleeing southbound from Gaza City moves along the coastal road in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on September 9, 2025.

REUTERS/Jihed Abidellaoui
REUTERS/Jihed Abidellaoui

A member of the Global Sumud Flotilla speaks at a press conference after they announced that one of their main boats was likely struck by an Israeli drone in Tunisian waters in Tunis on September 9, 2025.

REUTERS/Abdelaziz Boumzar
REUTERS/Abdelaziz Boumzar

An Algerian salt farmer works, preserving a centuries-old tradition of hand-harvesting salt from a natural high-altitude lake, in Bejaia, in the Kabyle mountains of northeastern Algeria, August 30, 2025.

WANG Zhao / AFP
WANG Zhao / AFP

Artists take part in a performance at the Great Hall of the People, following a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing on September 3, 2025.

AFP
AFP

Japan’s Prince Hisahito (R) attends his coming-of-age ceremony, Kakan-no-Gi, at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on September 6, 2025.

Angelos TZORTZINIS / AFP
Angelos TZORTZINIS / AFP

The full moon also known as "Blood Moon" during a lunar eclipse with a statue of the ancient Greek goddess Irene holding a child in the foreground, in central Athens, Greece, on September 7, 2025.

Prabin RANABHAT / AFP
Prabin RANABHAT / AFP

Nepal police carry an injured comrade as demonstrators pelt stones during a protest outside the Parliament in Kathmandu on September 8, 2025, condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government.

Anup OJHA / AFP
Anup OJHA / AFP

Fire rages through the main administrative building for the Nepal government, in Kathmandu on September 9, 2025, a day after a police crackdown on protests over social media prohibitions and corruption by the government.

Opinion

Sharaa faces pushback over his vision for a new Syria

At a meeting held two weeks ago at the Syrian presidential palace in Damascus, President Ahmed al-Sharaa met with an Arab delegation comprising…

Alia Mansour 11 September , 2025
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The tiny waterway that put the global economy into a chokehold

18 April 2026

Disruption in the Hormuz can have major implications for global trade, but it also creates opportunities for smaller nations like Iran to become global political players

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Politics

Glimpses of Bush's Iraq debacle appear in Trump's Iran war

15 April 2026

The Iraq war was viewed as disastrous in retrospect, while the Iran war was unpopular from the get-go. Al Majalla highlights the similarities and differences between the two.

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The US plan to turn Syria into an oil transit hub

16 April 2026

Pipelines have a chequered history in the Middle East, but the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led US Tom Barrack to conclude that a new route through Syria could solve some problems.

Al Majalla - London
An Iranian woman flashes the V-sign as she takes part in a rally to pay tribute to women killed during war, in Tehran on 17 April 2026. AFP
Politics

Has Iran's ideology actually hardened?

16 April 2026

The change in tone and presentation of policy isn't a fundamental redirection, but rather the consolidation of a system under pressure

Alex Vatanka
Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed holds two awards during the opening ceremony of the Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, late on 14 September 2010. AMR AHMAD / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Daoud Abdel Sayed and the cinema of quiet rebellion

16 April 2026

Throughout his career, the renowned Egyptian film director challenged authority, rejected easy answers, and remained rooted in lived experience

Hazem Massoud

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