Why a cornered Iran is also a problem for China

Even when appeals to open the Hormuz Strait come from a close ally like Beijing, they fall on deaf ears in Tehran. But hope is not yet lost.

Yang Xiaotong

America's Plan B for Iraq

[caption id="attachment_55226003" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Is the sun truly setting on America's military presence in Iraq?"][/caption] After years of social disorder,…

Nima Khorrami Assl

The Long Game

[caption id="attachment_55226070" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="A Libyan new regimes forces fighter holds a weapon with a Libyan flag as he secures an area on the frontline with the city…

Thomas Alberts

Once is Enough

[caption id="attachment_55226026" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Amr Moussa"][/caption] Moussa’s fame—he has been sung about by Egyptian pop singer Shaaban Abdel Rahim—places him at the…

Safaa Azab

East meets East

[caption id="attachment_55225988" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="The Sino-Arab business forum is a testament to the developing business relationship between China and the Arab World"][…

Omar H. Rahman

Not So Secret Wars

[escenic_image id="55220965"]What do a clandestine fiber-optic communications network in Beirut, Najaf’s Shamsah Travel and Tourism Agency, and a railway line in western Afghanistan all share?…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine

Jihad Jane

[escenic_image id="55220819"]October saw Al-Qaeda once again prove its determination to undermine western security: the “parcel” bomb dispatched by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)—the group…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine

Deadly Embraces

[escenic_image id="55220808"]Bruce Riedel is a former CIA officer and currently a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy. Riedel was a senior adviser to…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine

Iran and the Bomb

[escenic_image id="55219747"]Stephen Walt, world renowned professor of international affairs at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, met with The Majalla to discuss one of the key security…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine