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1931: Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler
Culture & Social Affairs

1931: Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler

In this engaging book, Straumann, a leading Swiss economic historian, examines a critical factor in Adolf Hitler’s rise to…

Reviewed By Andrew Moravcsik 16 August , 2019
Politics

Hezbollah’s Lebanese Allies Can Be Contained

On August 7, the U.S. embassy in Beirut released a statement calling for “fair and transparent judicial review” in Lebanon, noting that “any…

Hanin Ghaddar 16 August , 2019
Nagwa Fouad to Majalla: I did not know who Henry Kissinger was when he proposed to me. If circumstances had been different I would have married him.
Culture & Social Affairs

Nagwa Fouad to Majalla: I did not know who Henry Kissinger was when he proposed to me. If circumstances had been different I would have married him.

“My family in Alexandria received death threats because of my dancing performances. This is one of the reasons I got married to the…

Safa Azeb 16 August , 2019
The front page of the New York Times carries a picture of President Donald Trump February 25, 2017 a day after he criticized in a speech the FBI and journalists in New York City. (Getty)
Culture & Social Affairs

Bad News

On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News.Matthew Pressman.Harvard University Press, 2018. 336pp. Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism…

Jacob Weisberg 16 August , 2019
Nadine Njeim: Beauty Queen Turned Screen Queen
Culture & Social Affairs

Nadine Njeim: Beauty Queen Turned Screen Queen

Nadine Njeim was born in Baalbek District, Lebanon, in 1984 to a Lebanese Christian father and a Tunisian Muslim mother. Her multi…

Al Majalla - London 16 August , 2019
St. Michaels Golden-Domed Monastery, Kiev, Ukraine. (Getty)
Politics

Breathing Life Into Eastern Ukraine

The Russians took and held Kramatorsk, a small city in easternUkraine, for about three months in 2014. Since then, the only battles this town has…

Melinda Haring 16 August , 2019
President of South Korea Moon Jae-in (L) is welcomed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) on the first day of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan on June 28, 2019. (Getty)
Politics

Japan and South Korea Can’t Get Along

Since late last year, a conflict has been steadily building between two of the United States’ closest Asian allies. Last fall, theSouth Korean…

Celeste L. Arrington and Andrew Yeo 16 August , 2019
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures as he meets with Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas at 10 Downing Street in central London on August 6, 2019. (Getty)
Politics

Boris Johnson and the Politics of Neo-Poodleism

Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom’s scruffy, grandiloquent, and often bumbling new prime minister, has worked hard to fashion himself afterWinston…

Jeremy Shapiro 16 August , 2019
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) meets Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on May 17, 2019. (Getty)
Business & Economy

Iran Turns Its Economic Hopes to China — But Its Hopes May be Dashed

The American sanctions campaign continues to have devastating effects on Iranian commerce. Europe and India are pivoting to alternate supplies of oil…

Joseph Braude 16 August , 2019
 (L-R) Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin join hands after the Camp David Accords September 18, 1978 in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. (Getty)
Politics

Lessons from Camp David for Middle East Peace Today

US President Donald Trump could lay out his vision for peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority at a summit at his Camp David residence –…

Yasmine El Geressi 16 August , 2019
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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
Al Majalla
Politics

5 unanswered questions on the US-Iran ceasefire

09 April 2026

The fragile truce faces significant obstacles.

John Haltiwanger
Al Majalla
Politics

The US-Iran war tanked Trump's popularity at home

07 April 2026

Instead of the "no endless wars" they were promised, Americans were thrown into a disastrous war and were feeling the economic pinch at the gas pump

Brian Katulis
Awami Rickshaw Union workers holding posters of Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff, Field Marshal Asim Munir, shout slogans after the US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire in Lahore on 8 April 2026. Arif ALI / AFP
Politics

Behind the truce: Pakistan mediation proves pivotal

08 April 2026

Islamabad is humming with behind-the-scenes diplomacy to turn this tentative pause into lasting peace.

Kaswar Klasra
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir shake hands during a session at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on 29 March 2026. Reuters
Politics

Palestinian executions are now official Israel policy

08 April 2026

Israel's parliament approved a draconian death penalty law last week that only applies to Palestinian prisoners, in a move that the UN says "would constitute a war crime"

Khaled Essam Eleslamboly

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