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Starlink executives are exploring whether a licence could be granted in Lebanon, but talks may have slowed in the country's political and legal morass. Shutterstock
Business & Economy

Can Starlink help rewrite Lebanon’s broken telecoms rulebook?

Lebanon is a land of necessary neighbourhood generators, patchy internet connections, entrepreneurial ideas, and effectively absent regulatory…

Abdulfattah Khattab 28 July , 2025
Opinion

In the nick of time, a Saudi investment corps lands in Damascus

No nation engulfed by war and internal strife has ever truly been saved by political or military agreements alone. Real salvation lies in economic…

Khaled Kassar 28 July , 2025
Opinion

To mend Syria, Damascus must match words with deeds

On paper, Damascus is striking the right tone in the aftermath of the recent violence in Sweida, which once again laid bare the deep fractures in…

Haid Haid 28 July , 2025
Opinion

Joining the dots: Saudi Arabia, the two-state solution, and Syria

There is a clear and deliberate connection between Saudi Arabia’s co-chairing of an international conference in New York to revive the two-state…

Ibrahim Hamidi 28 July , 2025
Israel's parliament has voted to declare the West Bank as Israeli sovereign territory. It is non-binding, but its significance is huge. Eiko Ojala
Politics

The prophecy and the curse: Israel and West Bank annexation

On 23 July 2025, the Israeli Knesset passed a political declaration calling for the imposition of Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank,…

Ziad Al Halabi 28 July , 2025
On May 14, 1948, Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (standing under a huge portrait of Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, proclaims the establishment of Israel. Getty
Politics

Those who see plans for a ‘Greater Israel’ are not the first to do so

Following the recent 12-day war between Iran and Israel, the Turkish state television channel TRT World aired an in-depth report claiming that Israel…

Louis Fishman 28 July , 2025
The UK's National Security Advisor Jonathan Powell, who has a track record of helping enemy combatants agree terms. Shutterstock
Profiles

Jonathan Powell: the UK’s ultimate fixer flies into world hotspots

Together with Peter Mandelson, the British ambassador in Washington, D.C, Jonathan Powell is the latest big name from the last Labour government to…

Con Coughlin 27 July , 2025
Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov attends a meeting on the development strategy of the Russian Navy submarine forces held by President Vladimir Putin in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk region, Russia July 24, 2025. Alexander Kazakov/Sputnik via Reuters
Politics

What Russia learned from the 12-day Israel-Iran war

Following the recent 12-day war between Israel and Iran, military analysts around the world will be assessing effectiveness of combatants’ decisions,…

Anton Mardasov 27 July , 2025
Opinion

Ukrainians’ patience with President Zelenskyy stretches thin

Ukrainian popular support for wartime leader President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has begun to look frayed in recent days, with people protesting against…

Con Coughlin 26 July , 2025
The King Abdullah Financial Centre (KAFD) in Riyadh on December 1, 2024. Reuters
Business & Economy

Building the future: Gulf states pave the way to diversification

Across the Middle East, scaffolding and steel are becoming the most visible signs of the region’s economic transformation. From the coastlines of the…

Neil Quilliam 26 July , 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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