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A Huawei logo and 5G sign at the Huawei stand on day one of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai 2019 at the Shanghai New International Expo Center on June 26, 2019 in Shanghai, China. (Getty)
Business & Economy

The Right Way to Deal With Huawei

Over the past year and a half, the Trump administration has waged an extraordinary campaign againstHuawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant,…

Adam Segal 19 July , 2019
European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, from left, wait for the start of prior to a bilateral meeting as part of the closed-door nuclear talks with Iran at a hotel in Vienna, Austria, on July 6, 2018. (AP)
Politics

EU Works to Save Unraveling Nuclear Deal with Iran Amid Tensions in the Gulf

The European Union’s Foreign Ministers are making a last-ditch push to save the JCPOA, battered by the US withdrawal last year and Iran’s…

Joseph Braude 19 July , 2019
Dr. Zahi Hawass in front of the Sphinx and Pyramids of Giza on September 20, 2016 in Cairo, Egypt. (Getty)
Science & Technology

Archaeologist Zahi Hawass: The Sale of King Tut Sculpture Could Impact the Egyptian-British Cultural Relationship

Described as Egypt’s Indiana Jones, world-famous archaeologist Zahi Hawass has held the keys to Egyptian Antiquities for 30…

Yasmine El Geressi 19 July , 2019
The bust Queen Nefertiti of Egypt at the city's Old Museum in Berlin, Germany. (Getty)
Culture & Social Affairs

Egypt Wants its Treasures Back

The trade of stolen treasures is booming around the world. Although like with most illegal activities, looting is hard to quantify; satellite imagery…

Yasmine El Geressi 19 July , 2019
Illustration by Ali Mandalawi
Politics

In Memoriam: Global Economist and Spiritual Guide Jennie Ilene Litvack

Rosh Hashanah is a special festival that celebrates Jewish New Year. It literally means 'head of the year' and it is a celebration of the creation of…

Majalla 06 September , 2021
The Egyptian head of the God Amun with features of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen. (Photo source: Christie’s)
Culture & Social Affairs

The Custody Battle Over King Tut

Egypt has asked Interpol to help track down a 3,000 sculpture of the famed boy Pharaoh Tutankhamun after it was sold in Christie’s in London…

Yasmine El Geressi 12 July , 2019
What to Expect From Israel's Election Re-Run
Politics

What to Expect From Israel's Election Re-Run

At the end of May, Prime MinisterBenjamin NetanyahushockedIsraelby calling for new national elections after he failed to form a…

Dahlia Scheindlin 12 July , 2019
A taxi drive in a Sudanese village. (Wikimedia Commons)
Culture & Social Affairs

Tayeb Salih’s Sudan

If there’s one thing that fascinated Tayeb Salih, it’s the impact of colonialism has had on Sudan and Sudanese society. Unlike many of his…

Ali El Shamy 12 July , 2019
How to Win Friends and Wage Jihad
Politics

How to Win Friends and Wage Jihad

In its 2018 National Defense Strategy, the Trump administration announced that “inter-state strategic competition, not terrorism,” is the United…

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Varsha Koduvayur 12 July , 2019
In the Firing Room at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969, members of the launch team listen to congratulatory remarks by Vice President Spiro Agnew after the successful liftoff of Apollo 11. In the center of the photograph is JoAnn Morgan, the only woman engineer among scores of male counterparts. (NASA)
Science & Technology

The Women of the Space Race

Edith Gustan’s name appears in the fourth paragraph of a Seattle Times article from 1970, a skinny strip of text above a nearly full-page ad for…

Megan Burbank 12 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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