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Rahaf Ayyad, a 12-year-old Palestinian who is suffering from malnutrition due to an Israeli-imposed starvation campaign, sits at a school-turned-shelter in al-Rimal in central Gaza City on May 4, 2025. Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP

Sunken faces: kids in Gaza waste away as Israel blocks aid

As experts warn of a looming famine due to Israel's blocking of all aid for over ten weeks, Al Majalla speaks to affected families on the ground whose children have become skin and bones

Salem Al Rayyes 15, May 2025

Gaza on the brink of all-out famine

Fares Garabet 15, May 2025
Late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi arrive together at the Arab Summit venue in Rabat on December 23, 1969. AFP

A 50-year-old recording sheds light on Egypt's position toward Israel today

A conversation between a jaded Abdel Nasser and a starry-eyed Gaddafi has gone viral because of its striking relevance to the debates of today. The leaders have changed, but the perspective remains.

Amr Emam 11, May 2025
Rahaf Saad, a Palestinian girl who lost her legs in an Israeli air strike. REUTERS

Missing limbs and broken dreams: Gaza's generation of child amputees

Israel's war on Gaza has created the "largest cohort of child amputees in modern history". On the ground, Al Majalla speaks to affected families.

Houssam Marouf 03, May 2025

Israel wages a war of starvation on Gaza

Fares Garabet 28, Apr 2025
Spanish actor Lluís Marco

Taha in Barcelona: Spain learns of the life of a Palestinian poet

Taha Muhammad Ali felt the lifelong pain of displacement after Israeli forces took control of his beloved village in 1948. A pared-back one-man show of his life leaves the audience thinking of Gaza.

Samer Abou Hawwach 27, Apr 2025
Masked men from the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas SAID KHATIB / AFP

Demands for Hamas to disarm have been rebuffed. What next?

There are competing visions for Gaza, from a 'riviera' without Palestinians to a rebuilt enclave run by Palestinians for Palestinians. Until then, thousands are still being killed.

Amr Emam 25, Apr 2025
A man dressed as a clown entertains children at a makeshift school in a camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir El-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on April 27, 2024. AFP

The clowns trying to bring joy to Gaza's traumatised children

Uncle Zezo, Uncle Mickey, and Dr Alloush perform in displacement shelters and hospitals, striving to restore fragments of a joy last felt in 2023. Al Majalla meets them.

Houssam Marouf 24, Apr 2025
A Palestinian child looks on as bodies of victims of Israeli overnight airstrikes in the northern Gaza Strip lie on the ground in front of the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia on March 20, 2025. BASHAR TALEB / AFP

In Gaza, a child's silent farewell to dead friend pierces the silence of the world

Palestinian death is increasingly being seen through the lens of cold political calculations. The world's silence over Gaza's horrors has drowned out the desperate screams of its people.

Samer Abou Hawwach 16, Apr 2025

A 'Riviera' filled with Gaza's blood

Fares Garabet 14, Apr 2025
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Frederic Hof: Israel-Syria peace is far off, but a truce is crucial

28 May 2025

The former US envoy to Damascus tells Al Majalla how to find a path to a lasting settlement and a new place in the Middle East, from his unique perspective and first-hand experience in Assad-era talks

Johaina Khaldieh
Opinion

The Israel-Houthi war achieves nothing and hurts both sides

28 May 2025

Killing Yemeni civilians further ruins Israel's global image. Meanwhile, the Houthis cannot defeat Israel militarily.

Anwar Al-Ansi
Sara Padovan
Business & Economy

The history of tariffs is still being written

29 May 2025

A US federal court has blocked Trump's tariffs and ruled that the president doesn't have unilateral authority to impose them, dealing a major blow to his economic policy

Toufic Chanbour
Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Taha
Culture & Social Affairs

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha: Pulitzer Prize is a recognition of our story

26 May 2025

The US-based writer does not hold back in what he pens for American readers, nor is he censored. There is just one word that he is forbidden from using.

Houssam Marouf
Sara Padovan
Business & Economy

It’s time to build a regional climate fund

27 May 2025

As global climate finance falters and US support disappears, the MENA region faces a widening funding gap. Now is the time to create a regional climate finance mechanism.

Léa Eid

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OPINIONS

What next for Syria after US sanctions lifted?

Karam Shaar

Omar El Akkad strips away the West’s moral failure over Gaza

Antoine Jockey

Israel’s ties with its Western allies hit a new low

Christopher Phillips
Christopher Phillips

Immersive photography exhibitions in Cairo’s artistic quarter

Ibrahim Tutunji
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