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Why the Strait of Hormuz Is Still the World’s Most Important Chokepoint
Politics

Why the Strait of Hormuz Is Still the World’s Most Important Chokepoint

The Strait of Hormuz links the majority of the world’s peoplewho live along the shores ofAsia and East Africato the heart of theMiddle East…

Allen James Fromherz 26 July , 2019
U.S. Elections Are Still Not Safe From Attack
Politics

U.S. Elections Are Still Not Safe From Attack

Russia’s attack on American elections in 2016, described in Special CounselRobert Mueller’s recent report as “sweeping and systematic,…

Lawrence Norden and Daniel I. Weiner 26 July , 2019
If Iran Thought Military Escalation in the Gulf Would Trigger Negotiations with the West, it Thought Wrong
Politics

If Iran Thought Military Escalation in the Gulf Would Trigger Negotiations with the West, it Thought Wrong

Last week the Iranian navy launched a surprise attack on British shipping, seizing an oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz. As if sensing overreach,…

Joseph Braude 26 July , 2019
What Are the Challenges to Iran’s Escalations?
Politics

What Are the Challenges to Iran’s Escalations?

Tensions with Iran are escalating. The Iranians have staged a number of sabotage attacks on oil tankers earlier this month, and have seized a British…

Hanin Ghaddar 26 July , 2019
Politics

US-Iran Tensions: From Maximum Pressure to Maximum Leverage?

Iran has now exceeded the amount of low enriched uranium that it can have stockpiled as part of the JCPOA, the Iran nuclear deal. Its Foreign…

Dennis Ross 19 July , 2019
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Culture & Social Affairs

The Future Ain’t What it Used to Be, Part Two

‘I’ve gotta get a typewriter that’s sexier’ - George Orwell at the coal face A LETTER FROM AN OLD…

Bryn Haworth 19 July , 2019
Caucher Birkar photographed with his wife and child. (Photo by Hiwa Ahmad exclusively for Majalla)
Culture & Social Affairs

Caucher Birkar: A Personification of Kurdish Resilience

STRUGGLE AND FORTITUDE The eight-year-long Iran-Iraq War was one of the most devastating conflicts that inflicted the modern…

Ali El Shamy 19 July , 2019
Ivanka Trump: First Daughter and Advisor to the President of the United States
Politics

Ivanka Trump: First Daughter and Advisor to the President of the United States

Illustration by Ali Almandalawi Early Life and Education Ivanka was born on October 30, 1991,…

Majalla 19 July , 2019
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Belgium's Prime Minister Charles Michel, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, US President Donald Trump (3R) and Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May and other NATO heads of state watch a helicopter flyover after a family photo for the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) summit, at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, on July 11, 2018. (Getty)
Politics

Europe Alone

Speaking at theMunich Security Conferencein early 2019, former Vice PresidentJoe Bidenhad a reassuring message for European politicians, diplomats,…

Alina Polyakova and Benjamin Haddad 19 July , 2019
Members of Mexican National Guard detain Central American migrants trying to cross the Rio Bravo, in Ciudad Juarez, State of Chihuahua, on June 21, 2019. (Getty)
Politics

Mexico’s Migration Dilemmas

In late May, after issuing public comments and tweets criticizing the Mexican government,U.S. PresidentDonald Trumpthreatened to impose a five…

Andrew Selee 19 July , 2019
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Iranians mark 40 days since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in US-Israeli strikes at a demonstration in Tehran on 9 April, 2026. Majid Asgaripour / AFP
Politics

The US and Iran mull next moves amid shaky truce

10 April 2026

Washington weighs the desire to avoid a protracted war with offsetting the appearance of defeat, as Tehran debates whether to consolidate gains before conditions shift or press perceived advantages

Alex Vatanka
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
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
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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