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Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer makes an address following an emergency cabinet meeting on Gaza at 10 Downing Street in London on July 29, 2025. Toby Melville / AFP

Performative politics: Palestine recognition pledges ring hollow

The moves by France, the UK and other Western states appear to be more about appeasing domestic critics with symbolic gestures rather than a genuine attempt to change Israel's behaviour

Christopher Phillips 18 August 2025
Aliaa Aboukhaddour

How Gaza’s hakawati use storytelling to cling to memory and life

Storytelling in a genocide in which there has been no formal education for two years is no luxury. Rather, it is an attempt to revive the imaginations of a generation robbed of their childhood.

Houssam Marouf 17 August 2025
Lina Jaradat

Instead of respite, Gaza's war-torn brace for full Israeli occupation

After nearly two years of bombing, death, and displacement, a further mass evacuation order from the north to the south is pending, with the Israeli endgame being the settlement of the Strip

Salem Al Rayyes 16 August 2025

Israel's war on Gaza is deadliest ever for journalists

Fares Garabet 14 August 2025
Demonstrators raise placards during an anti-government rally calling for action to secure the release of Israeli captives in Gaza near the defence ministry in Tel Aviv on August 12, 2025. Jack GUEZ / AFP

Israelis are finally fed up with Netanyahu's endless war on Gaza

The gulf between the political and military establishments is widening. Politicians speak of a delayed victory, but military leaders warn of an inescapable quagmire.

Ziad Al Halabi 14 August 2025
Hidaya, a 31-year-old Palestinian mother, carries her sick 18-month-old son Mohammed al-Mutawaq, who is also displaying signs of malnutrition, inside their tent at the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, on July 24, 2025. Omar AL-QATTAA/AFP

The culmination of policy: Israel’s use of starvation in Gaza

What began 18 years ago is coming to a head today: the intentional, purposeful denial of food as a biological weapon that kills a population slowly, after first breaking its will

Hala Al-Naji 07 August 2025

Hunger, disease may soon trump Israel's kill count in Gaza

Fares Garabet 06 August 2025
Israeli soldiers inside a military aircraft flying over the Gaza Strip on July 27, 2025. Israeli Defence Forces / AFP

Countering the Israeli quest for regional domination

As Israel seeks to reshape the Middle East—militarily, politically, and economically—the Arab world must put forward an alternative vision anchored in the principles of the UN Charter

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 28 July 2025
Israel's Ministry of Finance estimated that the state's recent war costs stood at $31bn by the end of 2024, and could rise to $70bn by the end of 2025. Sebastien Thibault

War is draining Israel’s economy… but the stock market is booming

Despite heavy losses and the soaring economic burden of war, Israel's defence and tech companies are making gains

Souraya Chahine 24 July 2025
Lina Jaradat

Gaza’s ‘death trap’ aid centres: a real-life Hunger Games

Israel's commandeering of aid distribution in Gaza forces starving Palestinians to run the gauntlet at centres with biometric monitoring systems, armed security, and life-or-death hazards

Hala Al-Naji 03 July 2025
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The UN is dead: Chemillier-Gendreau on the collapse of international law

13 January 2026

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
Opinion

Iran's regime may not be falling, but it is fading

16 January 2026

Tehran's elite have few friends, but regional states fear the consequences of a disorderly transition. If Iran's 92 million people turn on one another, it could cause millions to flee abroad.

Omer Onhon
Al Majalla
Politics

Trump's retreat from multilateralism throws up a host of challenges

14 January 2026

Going forward, the international community needs to reduce dependence on the US without upsetting the world's largest military and economic power. It will be a shaky tightrope to walk.

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy
Yasser Al-Rumayyan, Governor of the Public Investment Fund, delivers a speech during the third edition of the Future Investment Initiative, in Riyadh on 28 October 2025. AFP
Business & Economy

Saudi Arabia loosens restrictions on foreign investors

12 January 2026

Scrapping foreign ownership caps and qualifying criteria will bring in more capital, with markets reacting positively to the latest reforms that build towards a more open country

Sharif Mohammad
Sudanese displaced from the Heglig area in western Sudan wait to receive humanitarian aid at the Abu al-Naga displacement Camp in the in Gedaref State, some 420km east of the capital Khartoum on 30 December 2025. ABDULRAHMAN GUMAA / AFP
Politics

Sudan stands between war and an imposed peace

16 January 2026

Al Majalla lays out three possible scenarios for the war-torn country in the weeks and months ahead

Areig Elhag and Ben Fishman

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