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Syria's journey from union to state under French rule ويكبيديا
Documents & Memoirs

Syria's journey from union to state under French rule

"In my naivety, I believed that the union between the states of Damascus and Aleppo was a momentous historical event for Syria. So I rushed to the…

Sami Moubayed 18 August , 2025
US President Donald Trump meets Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate for an end to the war in Ukraine in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Politics

Putin rides high after Alaska

The Alaska summit between Trump and Putin was the latest example of the US president's unpredictability and his weaknesses as a diplomat. European…

Robert Ford 18 August , 2025
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer makes an address following an emergency cabinet meeting on Gaza at 10 Downing Street in London on July 29, 2025. Toby Melville / AFP
Politics

Performative politics: Palestine recognition pledges ring hollow

Almost 108 years after British troops first occupied Palestine, London appears on the brink of finally recognising a Palestinian state. After France…

Christopher Phillips 18 August , 2025
The rare earths powering industries and fuelling conflicts Eduardo Ramon
Business & Economy

The rare earths powering industries and fuelling conflicts

For thousands of years, metals have been linked to human advancement, from Stone Age tools made of flint to the iron that fired the factories that…

Abdulfattah Khattab 18 August , 2025
Putin sitting pretty after Alaska summit
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Putin sitting pretty after Alaska summit

Fares Garabet 17 August , 2025
Opinion

Sweida must be a warning, not a blueprint for northeast Syria

As Syria struggles to contain the fallout from the recent clashes in Sweida, tensions in the northeast are rapidly approaching a boiling point. The…

Haid Haid 17 August , 2025
How Gaza’s hakawati use storytelling to cling to memory and life Aliaa Aboukhaddour
Culture & Social Affairs

How Gaza’s hakawati use storytelling to cling to memory and life

In Gaza, stories are told not merely for amusement but as acts of survival, fragile bridges to a life that drifts further away with each passing day…

Houssam Marouf 17 August , 2025
Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at the 45th meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Kuwait City on December 1, 2024.
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Politics

Kuwait reforms bear fruit after decades of political deadlock

When Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah assumed direct leadership of Kuwait as its emir, he was swift to outline his ambitions for the country…

Khalaf Al-Duwai 17 August , 2025
Rupert Murdoch: the media mega-mogul taking on Trump Nash
Profiles

Rupert Murdoch: the media mega-mogul taking on Trump

When media mogul Rupert Murdoch said he was stepping down as chairman of Fox and News Corp in September 2023, with his son Lachlan replacing him to…

Con Coughlin 17 August , 2025
Opinion

Global outrage won't deter Netanyahu from Gaza occupation

Not only has Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announced plan to fully occupy Gaza sparked an international outcry, but it has also…

Con Coughlin 16 August , 2025
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Eduardo Ramon
Politics

Trump has lost the Iran war, but how badly?

20 April 2026

While all the effects of this conflict may take time to fully realise, short and medium-term signs expose the limits of US power and see America's rivals benefiting

Christopher Phillips
Jason Lyon
Business & Economy

The Iran war is reshaping the China-Gulf economic model

21 April 2026

Closing the Strait of Hormuz has shown how the Gulf should shift from an oil-export model to a digital and distribution hub. Will this trigger the long-delayed free trade agreement with China?

Charbel Barakat
Pete Reynolds
Politics

Lebanon and Israel: negotiations and the end of Hezbollah

23 April 2026

Building on the ten-day ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump, time will tell if these talks are a one-off or the beginning of a different path for Lebanon.

Al Majalla - London
Grace Russell
Science & Technology

Saving the soldiers: robots as Ukraine’s new weapon

22 April 2026

The war in Ukraine is becoming an open laboratory for testing advanced military technologies that may yet redefine the very meaning of combat

Marco Mossad
Nesma Moharam
Culture & Social Affairs

New book tackles the fading art of Koranic recitation

20 April 2026

Egyptian heritage researcher Haytham Abu Zayd sheds light on how the art form grew, excelled, and then declined over the years and ends by offering a path to revival

Fadi El-Abdallah

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