Al Majalla launches a special series of articles and conversations reflecting on the events of 2025 and the broader legacy of the past 25 years in the Arab world and across the globe. We present sharp analyses of the sweeping transformations that have reshaped the Arab region and the wider world in this period.
The year 2025 witnessed the machinations of a changing global order and the restructuring of regional dynamics—not least in the Middle East. Al Majalla unpacks these shifts while also opining on possible future trajectories, commissioning leading thinkers and researchers to share their perspectives beyond the headlines.
 

How to Solve the Global Water Crisis

[caption id="attachment_55255992" align="alignnone" width="940"] The Jamam refugee camp in Upper Nile State, South Sudan houses 36,500 vulnerable people who have fled across the border from their…

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Putin's Succession Conundrum

[caption id="attachment_55255997" align="alignnone" width="940"] Russia's current president Vladimir Putin (front), a candidate in the 2018 Russian presidential election, meets with his campaign…

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Russian Spy Saga

[caption id="attachment_55255932" align="alignnone" width="5568"] Members of the emergency services in green biohazard encapsulated suits afix the tent over the bench where a man and a woman were…

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Putin's Past Explains Russia's Future

[caption id="attachment_55255924" align="aligncenter" width="3882"] Russian President Vladimir Putin attends his New Year address to Russians in central Moscow on December 31, 2017.(Getty)[/caption] …

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A U.S. Containment Strategy for Syria

[caption id="attachment_55255919" align="aligncenter" width="5760"] US forces, accompanied by Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters, drive their armoured vehicles near the northern Syrian…

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Trump’s Tariffs Strategy

[caption id="attachment_55255847" align="alignnone" width="594"] U.S. President Donald Trump signs a proclamation on adjusting imports of steel into the United States next to steel and aluminum…

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Theresa May's Impossible Vision for Brexit

[caption id="attachment_55255828" align="alignnone" width="4585"] British Prime Minister Theresa May (L) and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker address a press conference at the…

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Russian Spy Poisoning

[caption id="attachment_55255818" align="alignnone" width="2052"] Pictured in this file image dated August 9, 2006, is retired colonel Sergei Skripal during a hearing at the Moscow District Court. …

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Deterring Putin’s Hybrid Warfare

[caption id="attachment_55255812" align="alignnone" width="4500"] European leaders pose during the launch of the Permanent Structured Cooperation, (PESCO), a pact between 25 EU governments to fund,…

Maia Otarashvili