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A Week of Boiling Tensions Over Iran
Politics

A Week of Boiling Tensions Over Iran

Last week saw heightened tension in international policy deliberation over Iran. A foiled Iranian bomb plot in Paris, new revelations of a secret…

Joseph Braude 05 October , 2018

September 28

September 28

The aftermath of Typhoon Mangkhut on September 17, 2018 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. City officials raised the storm alert to T10, it's highest level, as Typhoon Mangkhut landed on Hong Kong. (Getty)

September 28

Dancers perform during a parade on the theme of peace for the 18th edition of the Lyon Dance Biennial on a street in Lyon, eastern France on September 16, 2018. (Getty)

September 28

A clouded leopard cub is pictured in a bucket during a medical exam on September 17, 2018 at the Mulhouse zoo, eastern France. (Getty)

September 28

A clouded leopard cub is pictured in a bucket during a medical exam on September 17, 2018 at the Mulhouse zoo, eastern France. (Getty)

September 28

Venezuelan migrant Jefferson Alexis and his father Jose Agustin Lopez, in a wheelchair, stop to rest as they travel along the road linking Cucuta and Pamplona, in Norte de Santander Department, Colombia, on September 15, 2018. (Getty)

September 28

Mexican riot police clash with residents of an indigenous camp as they are evicted from the improvised homes where many had been living for years in Mexico city on September 19, 2018. (Getty)

Iasias Afwerki
Politics

Iasias Afwerki

Illustraion by: Ali Almandalawi Iasias Afwerki was born in 1946 in Asmara, which was, at the time, under British administration. In…

Majalla 28 September , 2018
How UN Humanitarian Aid Has Propped Up Assad
Politics

How UN Humanitarian Aid Has Propped Up Assad

The international sanctions imposed on Syria since April 2011 are the most comprehensive on record. Nonetheless, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has…

Annie Sparrow 28 September , 2018
President Donald Trump addresses the 73rd United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly on September 25, 2018 in New York City. (Getty)
Business & Economy

At UN, Trump Challenges the World to Isolate Iran, Toughens Line on Syria

In his annual speech at the UN General Assembly in New York, U.S. President Donald Trump issued a stern message to Iran, its proxies, and any…

Joseph Braude 28 September , 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to address the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, 2018 in New York City. (Getty)
Politics

Trump’s Nineteenth-Century Grand Strategy

When U.S. President Donald Trump spoke to the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, he deliberately signaled a definitive break with the…

Charles A. Kupchan 28 September , 2018
Russia's President Vladimir Putin (C) reviews a military honour guard with Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) during a welcoming ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 8, 2018. (Getty)
Politics

Why Russia and China Are Strengthening Security Ties

Early last week, Russia concluded Vostok-2018, its largest military exercise since the fall of the Soviet Union. It wasn’t just their size, however,…

Alexander Gabuev 28 September , 2018
An undated photo obtained on September 18, 2018 shows a Russian IL-20M (Ilyushin 20m) aircraft landing at an unknown location.  Russia blamed Israel on September 18, 2018 for the loss of a military IL-20M jet to Syrian fire, which killed all 15 servicemen on board, and threatened a response. (Getty)
Politics

The Assad Regime and its Iranian Patron Are No Prize for Russia

Russia has made itself the arbiter of events in Syria. Its military intervention and use of intensive bombing allowed it to change the balance of…

Dennis Ross 28 September , 2018
Majalla Exclusive: Defector ISIS Leadership Provides Inside View of its Structure and Regional Ties
Politics

Majalla Exclusive: Defector ISIS Leadership Provides Inside View of its Structure and Regional Ties

This article was originally published in Majalla in August, 2016. Over the summer, Majalla has been in contact with a figure we will refer to…

Jassem Mohamed – Bonn 24 September , 2018

21 September

21 September

Kosovar woman Sheqerie Buqaj stands on September 5, 2018 after receiving a traditional face painting by Kosovar Bosnian woman Aziza Sefitagic, while presenting the traditional wedding of Bosnian women from Zhupa region, during the 'Etno Fest' festival in the village of Kukaj. (Getty)

21 September

A veterinarian tends to a rescued baby black gibbon (symphalangus syndactylus) at a local nature conservation agency's office in Banda Aceh, Aceh province on September 13, 2018.(Getty)

21 September

Buddhist monk watches the Vostok-2018 (East-2018) military drills at Tsugol training ground not far from the borders with China and Mongolia in Siberia, on September 13, 2018. (Getty)

21 September

People stand on booths at a polling station during the Swedish general elections in Stockholm on September 9, 2018. (Getty)

21 September

A boat carrying migrants is stranded in the Strait of Gibraltar before being rescued by the Spanish Guardia Civil and the Salvamento Maritimo sea search and rescue agency that saw 157 migrants rescued on September 8, 2018. (Getty)

21 September

People fly kites on a beach while others sunbathe during the 20th edition of the International Dieppe Kite Festival on September 9, 2018 in Dieppe, northwestern France. (Getty)

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Business & Economy

How a tiny waterway 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

Steve Hewitt
Pete Reynolds
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.

Robert Ford
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Business & Economy

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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