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Life After Liberation
Culture & Social Affairs

Life After Liberation

Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny.Witold Szablowski.Penguin Books, 2018. 256pp.Welcome to the Wild East…

Timothy Garton Ash 30 August , 2019
Sudanese Raja Abdul Masih:  Coptic Lawyer and Eleventh Member of the Sovereign Council
Politics

Sudanese Raja Abdul Masih:  Coptic Lawyer and Eleventh Member of the Sovereign Council

Raja Nicola Abdul Masih was born in the Masalma neighbourhood of Omdurman in Sudan in the 1950s. She is a member of Sudan’s Coptic…

Al Majalla - London 30 August , 2019
Protesters throw back tear gas at police in Kwai Fong district on August 11, 2019 in Hong Kong, China. (Getty)
Politics

Tiananmen in Hong Kong

At first, when demonstrators began spilling into city streets, citizens were surprised by their audacity and struck by their idealism, openness, and…

Orville Schell 30 August , 2019
Protesters line a road holding placards near a new anti-Brexit mural, erected by Republican party Sinn Fein, in west Belfast, on December 6, 2017 to call for a special status for northern Ireland with respect to Brexit and no hard borders in Ireland. (Getty)
Politics

Ireland’s Rocky Road to Unity

In the wake of the Brexit crisis, the idea of a unitedIrelandhas returned to the political agenda. Politicians in both parts of a divided country…

Daniel Finn 30 August , 2019
Pro-Brexit demonstrators hold Union Jack flags as they protest outside the Houses of Parliament on November 23, 2016 in London, England. (Getty)
Politics

Parliament Prorogued

On August 28, the Queen approved Boris Johnson’s request to “prorogue,” or suspend, parliament just days after it returns from summer recess next…

Yasmine El Geressi 30 August , 2019
A worker fits seats into a Seat Tarraco on a production line at German car manufacturing giant Volkswagen's headquarters in Wolfsburg, northern Germany, on March 1, 2019. (Getty)
Politics

Brexit and Layoff Anguish

Brexituncertainty hangs like a cloud over Britain’s workforce and has brought us nightmarish new headlines from the business world on almost weekly…

Yasmine El-Geressi and Ali El Shamy 30 August , 2019
The air-plane which carried Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stands on the tarmac at the airport of the French seaside resort of Biarritz, south-west France, during the G7 summit in Biarritz, on August 25, 2019, on the second day of the annual summit. (Getty)
Politics

U.S.-Iran Negotiations Nixed While Israel Expands Its Campaign Against Tehran Proxies

While President Trump delivered a rebuke to voices calling for immediate negotiations with Iran, labeling such moves premature, Iranian officials…

Joseph Braude 30 August , 2019
A Hezbollah fighter stands in front of anti-tank artillery at Juroud Arsal, the Syria-Lebanon border. (Reuters)
Politics

The Lebanese Shia Are not Ready for War

The possibility for a Hezbollah-Israel war has grown immensely after two Israeli drones exploded in Lebanon’s southern suburbs – Hezbollah’s…

Hanin Ghaddar 30 August , 2019
Lebanese Druze Leader Walid Jumblatt
Politics

Lebanese Druze Leader Walid Jumblatt

​ A Wonderful Birthday Gift Walid Jumblatt was born to Kemal Jumblatt and Mai Shkeeb Arslan on August 7, 1949, in the Chouf…

Moncef al-Mazghany 24 August , 2019
People gather at a makeshift memorial honoring victims outside Walmart August 15, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (Getty)
Science & Technology

How Big Tech Can Fight White Supremacist Terrorism

On the morning ofAugust 3,Patrick Crusiusuploaded a 2,300-word manifesto to 8chan, an online forum popular with white nationalists. Within seconds…

Daniel Byman and Christopher Meserole 24 August , 2019
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Pete Reynolds
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Benjamin Netanyahu is damaged goods in the West

25, Oct 2026

Key voices in the West appear to be throwing him under the bus ahead of the approaching Israeli election

Brian Katulis
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Business & Economy

Energy security and resiliency in an uncertain world

24, Oct 2026

Türkiye's Minister of Energy and Natural Resources writes for Al Majalla

Alparslan Bayraktar
People shout slogans as they gather after a two-week ceasefire in the Iran war was announced, in Tehran, Iran, on 8 April 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
Politics

An emboldened Iran could trigger an IS comeback

22, Oct 2026

Should the US and Israel fail in their war on Iran, Tehran would likely expand its regional influence at the expense of Sunni Arabs, who could potentially turn to extremist groups to fight back

James Jeffrey
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Culture & Social Affairs

The Palestinian flag in France: from student activism to social unrest 

23, Oct 2026

Once a symbol of solidarity with the Palestinian cause, it is now being used by different groups to advance their own grievances and agendas

Waddah Abu Jamea
Ukranian Minister for Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba listens to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General during the alliance's 75th anniversary at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels on 4 April 2024. KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP
Politics

Dmytro Kuleba on Trump’s drift towards Moscow

24, Oct 2026

Ukraine's former foreign minister is pragmatic about the war, peace talks, Kyiv's opponent, Washington, the Chinese, and the Gulf. His thoughts are a fascinating insight into Europe's biggest battle

Ahmed Maher

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