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Israel starves Palestinians in Gaza

Fares Garabet 26 February 2024
Displaced Palestinian children gather to receive food at a government school in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 19, 2024. AFP

Arab normalisation with Israel loses appeal amid Gaza horrors

Time is running out for Israel to be a part of the Middle East. It has become a moral burden for anyone engaging with it.

Hesham Alghannam 25 February 2024
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian Authority Riyad al-Maliki (R) at the International Court of Justice at a hearing on the legal consequences of the Israeli occupation on February 19, 2024, in The Hague. AFP

Israeli occupation on trial at the Hague

A second case against Israel has been put to the International Court of Justice. This time, dozens of states decry its constant breach of international law and call for an end to its impunity.

Bryn Haworth 24 February 2024
Egyptian troops pose atop a bunker on which they just planted their flag on the Israeli Bar Lev line east of the Suez Canal, Egypt, on Oct. 13, 1973. AP

Egypt declassifies October war files as tension with Israel intensifies

The files offer a rare insight into Egypt's planning for its 1973 war on Israel and subsequent liberation of Sinai, demonstrating its ability to defend its territories

Amr Emam 23 February 2024
A Palestinian child gestures as people bury their dead who were killed during overnight Israeli strikes at a cemetery in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 21, 2024. AFP

An Israeli assault on Rafah could send the region spiralling. A deal might save it.

An operation during Ramadan would likely reignite tensions. While neither the US nor Iran truly want a direct confrontation, they may still get one.

Michael Horowitz 22 February 2024

US vetoes Gaza ceasefire resolution for third time

Fares Garabet 21 February 2024
Aid trucks are lined up next to a large cement fence near the border with Gaza, which Egypt says will be a 'logistics zone' to receive aid for Gaza. Reuters

Egypt logistics zone to ease aid delivery to Gaza

The new zone aims to reduce the burden on aid truck drivers who wait for days on end for Israeli permission to enter Gaza

Amr Emam 21 February 2024
A serious game plan to advance a two-state solution with unified support from the US and its regional partners would help turn the tide against Iran and those who support it. shutterstock

A harder line on Iran is necessary for lasting Middle East peace

A serious game plan to advance a two-state solution with unified support from the US and its regional partners would help turn the tide against Iran and those who support it.

Brian Katulis 20 February 2024

Will Israel defy global cries against Rafah assault?

Fares Garabet 19 February 2024
Israel's war on Gaza will either send the region spiralling into an intractable war or can be a turning point for a better future for all. Saudi Arabia can play a key role in achieving the latter. Sara Gironi Carnevale

The Middle East stands at a crossroads between two futures

Israel's war on Gaza will either send the region spiralling into an intractable war or can be a turning point for a better future for all. Saudi Arabia can play a key role in achieving the latter.

Ibrahim Hamidi 18 February 2024
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Qatar's Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (C) reviews a military honour guard with Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) during a welcoming ceremony in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on January 31, 2019. GREG BAKER / AFP
Politics

Pivot to China? Gulf states mull options after Doha strike

12 September 2025

Israel's attack in Qatar erodes Gulf states' trust in the US and serves as a stark reminder that they cannot depend on American security guarantees

Xiaotong Yang
A Hezbollah flag is placed in front of the shrine of Shamoun al-Safa, built within a castle in the village of Shamaa in southern Lebanon's Tyre governorate, on January 31, 2025, that was heavily damaged by Israeli bombing. Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP
Business & Economy

Trump Economic Zone plan raises eyebrows in Lebanon

11 September 2025

Many Lebanese see the project as a demographic one with economic dressings aimed at expelling the country's southern population from their lands

Souraya Chahine
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Politics

From Idlib to New York: Sharaa’s winding road the UN

12 September 2025

From the plains of Idlib to the presidential palace in Damascus and now the UN headquarters in Manhattan, Al Majalla traces the Syrian president's journey to get to this historic moment

Ibrahim Hamidi
Opinion

'The Voice of Hind Rajab' shows cries for justice are only getting louder

07 September 2025

A 24-minute standing ovation at the film premiere was more than a symbolic gesture of justice for Israel's murder of little Hind, but a heartfelt cry of real anguish over the ongoing genocide in Gaza

Samer Abou Hawwach
Egyptian writer May Telmissany poses during a portrait session held on April 15, 2014, in Paris, France. Ulf Andersen/Getty
Culture & Social Affairs

May Telmissany: writing is an act of resistance against the ugliness of the world

14 September 2025

The acclaimed Egyptian writer talks love, betrayal, autobiography, and the lack of Arab literary identity

El-Sayed Hussein

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