A year after his election, Donald Trump remains more present and influential than ever. No longer merely an extraordinary president or a political anomaly, he has come to embody a deep shift in American sentiment and in how the world’s foremost superpower conducts its global affairs.
How Trump reshaped the world is the cover story of Al Majalla’s November issue, marking one year since his election. We present articles and interviews examining the key developments in the United States and across the globe during his first year in office.

The German Election and Donald Trump

[caption id="attachment_55254538" align="aligncenter" width="3144"] German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Donald Trump arrive for the group photo at the G7 Taormina summit on the island…

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An Era of Authoritarian Influence?

[caption id="attachment_55254541" align="aligncenter" width="3500"] Demonstrators, including one bearing a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin and another waving a flag of the European Union…

Yasmine Ahmed

Hack Job

[caption id="attachment_55254549" align="aligncenter" width="3500"] Radomes of the digital communications listening station of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), the German intelligence agency, stand…

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Hezbollah on “The Attack”

[caption id="attachment_55254507" align="aligncenter" width="5451"] French-Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri, who has been criticised for filming part of a production in Israel, holds up his French and…

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California Dreamin’

[caption id="attachment_55254518" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Elon Musk, chief executive officer for Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), speaks during the 67th International…

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