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Justin Trudeau: Canada's long-serving Liberal PM bids adieu

Whoever Canada's 24th prime minister turns out to be, their immediate predecessor will remain one of the country's best-known names at home and abroad after a lifetime in the political spotlight

Abdulfattah Khattab 11 January 2025
Kaja Kallas of Estonia has been appointed Europe's foreign policy chief Axel Rangel Garcia

Kaja Kallas: Estonian firebrand becomes Europe’s top diplomat

The bloc's foreign policy is now led by a Russia hawk who takes a sledgehammer to suggestions of appeasing Moscow. No fan of Putin's EU cronies, what will she make of Donald Trump?

Con Coughlin 05 January 2025
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Olaf Scholz: The German chancellor on life support

The man who succeeded Angela Merkel has forced early voting, and few expect the social democrat to stay in power with the centre-right Christian Democrats ahead in the polls

Con Coughlin 23 December 2024
A portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is pictured with its frame broken in a Syrian regime's Political Security Branch facility on the outskirts of the central city of Hama following its capture. OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP

Assad's fall: The end of an era

In just over a week, a lightning rebel offensive has collapsed five decades of draconian Assad rule. Al Majalla looks back at the political career of the former Syrian president.

Sami Moubayed 08 December 2024
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel Laura Hegarty_Al Majalla

Angela Merkel defends her legacy in her latest memoir

Germany's second longest-serving chancellor reflects on her 16 years in office—a widely praised tenure that has also been criticised for being soft on Russia and migrants

Con Coughlin 08 December 2024
Rob Carter

Tulsi Gabbard: Trump’s curveball National Intelligence pick

Loved in Russia but distrusted by the establishment, the next potential overseer of US intelligence agencies could very well clean house. Cue an almighty showdown.

Tarek Rashed 01 December 2024
Yusra Naim

Kemi Badenoch: Britain's new anti-woke Tory leader

A fierce critic of the Left, Badenoch made history by becoming the first black woman to lead a British political party, and she has a plan to reverse the Conservative Party's fortunes

Con Coughlin 24 November 2024
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Pete Hegseth: Trump's bombshell SecDef pick

The former Fox News presenter and Trump loyalist doesn't have senior military experience—something that has riled the US security establishment

Con Coughlin 18 November 2024
Elise Stefanik, US Representative, speaks during a rally for Republican presidential nominee and former US President Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden, in New York, US, October 27, 2024. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Elise Stefanik: What to know about Trump’s UN ambassador pick

The news comes as little surprise to those who have tracked Stefanik's ascension through GOP ranks over the past decade

Amy Mackinnon 13 November 2024
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Susie Wiles, the unassuming operative who powered Donald Trump’s campaign

In his first major appointment, Trump picked Wiles—who shied away from sharing the stage with him at his victory speech—to be his new chief of staff, making her the first woman to hold the position

The Economist 09 November 2024
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The tiny waterway that 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
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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
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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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Michael Harari
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