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Jayne Anne Phillips AFP

Jayne Anne Phillips on her new Pulitzer Prize-winning novel

Al Majalla speaks to Phillips about her latest novel 'Night Watch' which follows a mother and daughter navigating a divided America after the Civil War in the 1860s. It all sounds eerily familiar.

Nesrein El-Bakhshawangy 24 May 2024
A still from the new film 'Civil War' shows actress Kirsten Dunst reacting to an explosion. AP

New film warns Americans civil war can come

'Civil War' isn't aimed at predicting future politics but warning of the dangers of the current political polarisation in America

Robert Ford 02 May 2024
Syrian writer Khalida Saeeda recalls a strange encounter she experienced during Lebanon's civil war, where a moment of panic revealed one man's true nature. Marian Moratinos

The day a bird saved me

A Syrian writer recalls a strange encounter she experienced during Lebanon's civil war, where a moment of panic revealed one man's true nature

Khalida Saeed 12 January 2024
Lebanese soldiers remove boxes from an overturned truck, right, to a military truck, left, in the Christian town of Kahaleh, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023 AP

A tale of two trucks: One deadly incident ignited Lebanon's civil war; the other could start a new one

The back-to-back events of al-Kahaleh and Ain al-Hilweh have brought Lebanon on the verge of what many fear could lead to a repeat of the tragic events that triggered the civil war back in 1975

Sami Moubayed 21 August 2023
Libyan security forces affiliated with Tripoli-based interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh take part in a parade marking the 6th anniversary of the “liberation of Sirte” from IS on December 17, 2022. AFP

Fuelled by corruption and nepotism, Libya finds itself trapped in political anarchy

Factions, corruption and an inadequate international response mean it's more of the same for the long-suffering citizens of the oil-rich North African nation so ill-served by its leaders

Tarek Megerisi 03 July 2023
The chair of the Speaker of the House sits empty for a third straight day as members of the House gather for another expected round of voting for a new Speaker on the third day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 5, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

U.S. House Speaker Fight Enters Fourth Day Amid Antebellum-Era Dysfunction

Republican Kevin McCarthy's perilous quest to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives entered the fourth day on Friday, with a scale of congressional dysfunction not seen since before the…

06 January 2023
Deputy Chairman of Russia's Security Council Dmitry Medvedev gives an interview at the Gorki state residence outside Moscow, Russia January 25, 2022. Picture taken January 25, 2022. Sputnik/Yulia Zyryanova/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Star Rising in Kremlin, Russia's Medvedev Predicts War in West

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, an arch loyalist of Vladimir Putin given a new job this week, predicted war between Germany and France next year and a civil war in the United States that…

27 December 2022
Lebanese members of Parliament attend a legislative session in Beirut, Lebanon July 26, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Lebanon Fails to Elect President for Fourth Time as Aoun's Departure Looms

Lebanon's parliament failed on Monday to elect a president for the fourth time, with just a week left until outgoing President Michel Aoun's term ends and warnings of a constitutional crisis growing…

24 October 2022
FBI search of former US president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence sought presidential and classified records believed to have been unlawfully retained, two sources familiar with the matter said. David Dee Delgado/Reuters

FBI Raid on Trump’s Home Ignites Anger of Supporters

Last week's raid by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on former President Donald Trump’s residence, at his Mar-a-Lago golf course in Florida, ignited the anger of millions of his supporters…

Mohammad Ali Salih 12 August 2022
Protesters against Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed seen in Mogadishu, Somalia, April 2021. Feisal Omar / Reuters

Somalia’s Dangerous Authoritarian Turn

Until recently, Somalia was on an upward trajectory. Although it continued to struggle with piracy, famine, and terrorism, the country was turning the corner after decades of bloody civil war. It had…

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud 29 January 2022
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Trump's visit tests 'special' US-UK relationship

16 September 2025

Despite Trump's often hostile engagement with traditional US allies, Starmer has trodden a careful path to keep him on side. But is this sustainable?

Christopher Phillips
Opinion

'The Voice of Hind Rajab' shows cries for justice are only getting louder

07 September 2025

A 24-minute standing ovation at the film premiere was more than a symbolic gesture of justice for Israel's murder of little Hind, but a heartfelt cry of real anguish over the ongoing genocide in Gaza

Samer Abou Hawwach
Armed men from the MSA, an armed political movement in Mali's Azawad region, gather in the desert outside Menaka on March 14, 2020. AFP
Politics

The Sahel's paramilitary problem

09 September 2025

Armed groups are being formed in places like Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, where state militaries cannot defeat jihadists and separatists alone. Once formed, however, they seldom stay loyal.

Sergey Eledinov
Egyptian writer May Telmissany poses during a portrait session held on April 15, 2014, in Paris, France. Ulf Andersen/Getty
Culture & Social Affairs

May Telmissany: writing is an act of resistance against the ugliness of the world

14 September 2025

The acclaimed Egyptian writer talks love, betrayal, autobiography, and the lack of Arab literary identity

El-Sayed Hussein
Lina Jaradat
Politics

Butterfly effect: can the Palestine protest movement turn the tide?

14 September 2025

For nearly two years, protests around the world calling for an end to Israel's war on Gaza haven't fizzled out, but grown. Their geographic reach and longevity appear to have no precedent in history.

Bryn Haworth

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