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A Palestinian volunteer works to rescue and restore damaged books and manuscripts inside the library of the Great Omari Mosque in Gaza City, on 26 February 2026.
 OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP

Cultural genocide: Israel's war on Palestinian memory

By making Gaza unrecognisable, Israel aimed to sever an indigenous people from any physical or emotional connection to their homeland

Atef Abu Seif 23 March 2026
The displaced Palestinian Abu Mustafa family sits together as they break the dawn-to-dusk Ramadan fast during Iftar in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on 26 February 2026. Photo by EYAD BABA / AFP

Ramadan in Gaza: food scarcity compounds suffering

The iftar table, if it still exists, no longer represents joy, but anxiety and scarcity

Hala Al-Naji 05 March 2026
Palestinian youth retrieve books from the rubble of a mosque and buildings which collapsed during Israeli bombardment around the town city of Rafah southern Gaza Strip on 24 January 2024. MOHAMMED ABED / AFP

Gaza in ruin: lost deeds muddle proof of ownership

As reconstruction looms, Gaza's Palestinians find themselves unable to prove who they are or what they own, their identity cards and title deeds lost beneath the rubble of war

Salem Al Rayyes 21 February 2026
Palestinian artists paint a mural depicting the "Global Resilience Flotilla" in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on 3 October 2025. BASHAR TALEB / AFP

Fleeing Gaza: artists open up about survivors' guilt

Some who escaped the genocide say they are tormented by feelings of betrayal as they watch the continuous suffering of their people back home

Houssam Marouf 03 February 2026
Palestinian children peek out of holes in their tent at a makeshift displacement camp set up amid building rubble in Gaza City on 12 May 2025. Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP

'Life' in a tent pushes the bounds of Gazan endurance

Those who somehow managed to survive starvation, bombs and disease now face a punishing winter in 'shelters' as battered as Palestinian existence itself

Hala Al-Naji 29 January 2026

US plans for 'New Gaza' despite continuous killings

Fares Garabet 26 January 2026
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'Gaza has broken every record of modern warfare'

Former Médecins Sans Frontières president Rony Brauman explains to Al Majalla how Israel's war on Gaza has produced unprecedented suffering and exposed the collapse of international law

Elie Kossaifi 26 January 2026
A general view of a concrete block marking the "Yellow Line" drawn by the Israeli military in Bureij, central Gaza Strip, on 4 November 2025. BASHAR TALEB / AFP / Al Majalla

Is Israel annexing more than half of Gaza?

The ambiguous meaning of Israel's new yellow line

Giovanni Legorano 22 January 2026
Axel Rangel Garcia

The UN is dead: Chemillier-Gendreau on the collapse of international law

In an interview with Al Majalla, the prominent French jurist discusses Israeli and Western duplicity, their violation of international law, and why Israel bears the cost of Gaza's reconstruction

Elie Kossaifi 16 January 2026
Palestinians walk past a destroyed building at a makeshift market in the Nuseirat refugee camp, located in the central Gaza Strip, on October 15, 2025, two days after a ceasefire came into effect. EYAD BABA / AFP

The destruction of Gaza’s markets is the destruction of memory

Places that pulsed with daily life are now reduced to rubble, and the effects are much greater than simply a loss of trade. The power of the old markets went far beyond stalls and sales.

Houssam Marouf 05 January 2026
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Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, dressed in an IRGC uniform, chairs a session in Tehran on 1 February 2026. AFP
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Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf: a possible US partner?

24 March 2026

Reports that the Trump administration is eyeing Iran's parliament speaker as an Iranian 'Delcy Rodriguez' has been dismissed in Tehran as fake news

Alex Vatanka
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Army Chief and Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir pose with US President Donald Trump (C) at the White House in Washington, DC on 26 September 2025. AFP
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Why Pakistan is well-placed to host US-Iran talks

24 March 2026

Islamabad is uniquely positioned to mediate between the warring parties. It also has more than enough reasons to want this war to end.

Kamal Alam
Mark Wallace (L), CEO of the non-profit United Against Nuclear Iran, talks with Rep. Mike Lawler (R) (R-NY) next to a Shahed 136 military drone during a press conference on Capitol Hill on 8 May 2025 in Washington, DC. WIN MCNAMEE / AFP
Business & Economy

Iran and the new arithmetic of war

23 March 2026

Cheap autonomous weapons are overturning the economics of combat—and teaching the United States important lessons.

Fareed Zakaria
Trump holding a Make America Great Again Hat AFP
Politics

Could the US-Iran war deliver Trump his own ‘Suez’ moment?

23 March 2026

The conflict will likely prompt political and economic shifts, even if the extent of those changes may not be known for years.

Christopher Phillips
A displaced woman sits next her tent in an unofficial camp, erected along Beirut’s seafront area on 22 March 2026. DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Beirut's daily grind: between refuge, ruin and routine

23 March 2026

Beirut continues to host exhibitions and sustain cultural life, but in a subdued, robotic fashion shaped by war and emotional numbness

Mimoza Al-Arrawi

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