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.
 

The East is Green?

[caption id="attachment_55254888" align="aligncenter" width="5612"] Chinese tourists wear masks as protection from the pollution outside the Forbidden City during a day of high pollution on December…

Yasmine Ahmed

America's Kurdish Conundrum

[caption id="attachment_55254885" align="aligncenter" width="3000"] People are seen on the street in the old city on October 27, 2017 in Erbil, Iraq. (Getty)[/caption] by Behnam Ben Taleblu and Merve…

Majalla

How America Can Win in Iran

[caption id="attachment_55254854" align="aligncenter" width="3000"] Yemen's Shiite Huthi rebels shout slogans during a gathering to mobilise more fighters to battlefronts to fight pro-government…

Majalla

Preventing the Next Attack

[caption id="attachment_55254850" align="aligncenter" width="2888"] An air traveler is patted down after passing through a full-body scanner at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on February 20,…

Majalla

After the Mogadishu Attacks

[caption id="attachment_55254846" align="aligncenter" width="3888"] Hardline Islamist fighters from Al-Shabab(Getty)[/caption] by Stig Jarle Hansen, Christopher Anzalone On October 14, a terrorist…

Majalla

Religion and Violence in Myanmar

[caption id="attachment_55254843" align="aligncenter" width="4500"] A Rohingya girl cries as refugees fleeing from Myanmar cross a stream in the hot sun on a muddy rice field on October 16, 2017 near…

Majalla

The European Roots of the Alt-Right

[caption id="attachment_55254807" align="aligncenter" width="3000"] Peter Cvjetanovic (R) along with Neo Nazis, Alt-Right, and White Supremacists encircle and chant at counter protestors at the base…

Majalla

A conversation with David Shedd

[caption id="attachment_55254757" align="aligncenter" width="900"] David Shedd[/caption] by Joseph Braude David Shedd is one of the most influential American intelligence officers in the post…

Joseph Braude