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 Nuclear Option

[caption id="attachment_55254423" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Large solar panels are seen in a solar power plant in Hami, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on May 8, 2013. …

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What Iraq's Kurdish Peshmerga Believe

[caption id="attachment_55254420" align="aligncenter" width="900"] An Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighter, next to a Kurdish flag, holds a position in Sheikh Ali village near the town of Bashiqa, some…

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Why the U.S. Needs Its Envoys

[caption id="attachment_55254416" align="aligncenter" width="900"] A picture taken on November 17, 2016 shows the national flags of the members of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) states…

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France’s Gamble

[caption id="attachment_55254413" align="aligncenter" width="900"] US President Donald Trump (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron (R) shake hands ahead of a working lunch, at the US ambassador's…

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Hezbollah Won; Hezbollah Lost

[caption id="attachment_55254409" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanon's militant Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah, speaks during a ceremony on the eve of the tenth…

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Pay Up, Europe

[caption id="attachment_55254385" align="aligncenter" width="682"] Donald Trump during the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) summit in Brussels(Picture by Christophe Licoppe/Photonews via…

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Princess Diana

[caption id="attachment_55254375" align="aligncenter" width="1488"]Princess Of Wales In Hong Kong Wearing A Pearl And Diamond Tiara Which Was A Wedding Gift From The Queen.(Photo by Tim Graham/Getty…

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Why Does ISIS Spare Italy?

[caption id="attachment_55254370" align="aligncenter" width="3386"] Salvatore Lucania, called Lucky Luciano (1897-1962), gangster of sicilian mafia (with handcuffs and cigaret) leaving the court in…

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The “Great Firewall” of China

[caption id="attachment_55254366" align="aligncenter" width="900"] People congregate and take photographs at a make-shift tribute outside the Google Inc. office in Beijing, China, on Wednesday, Jan…

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