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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

Israel turns Gaza aid into a life-or-death proposition

Fares Garabet 02 July 2025
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Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (R) and Deputy Foreign Minister and chief nuclear negotiator Abbas Araghchi react as they listen to President Hassan Rouhani (unseen) speaking during a press conference in Tehran on 3 April 2015 ATTA KENARE / AFP
Politics

Zarif’s peace gambit meets Tehran’s limits

15 April 2026

Tehran can likely contemplate a deal, but it is far less clear that it can yet imagine lasting peace

Alex Vatanka
Julian D. Paulsen
Business & Economy

Tight squeeze: economic effects of Iran war linger despite truce

13 April 2026

A two-week truce has sparked a cautious market rebound, but deep anxiety persists over renewed escalation and its impact on global growth and inflation

Abdulfattah Khattab
Jared Kushner and Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif interact in Islamabad, Pakistan, on 11 April 2026. Jacquelyn Martin/ REUTERS
Politics

‘Kushner and Witkoff spoiled the US-Iran talks’

13 April 2026

Sources tell Al Majalla that Iran was able to build a rapport with US Vice President JD Vance in Islamabad, but sensed his hands were tied in the presence of Trump's son-in-law and close friend

Kamal Alam
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Business & Economy

The Iran war exposed the fragility of Europe’s economy

15 April 2026

Disruption in the Strait of Hormuz and rising energy prices are exposing the structural vulnerabilities of Europe's economy

Mohamed Sharki
Opinion

Lebanon’s Shiites are fighting a two-front war

15 April 2026

The first is on the border against Israel, which seeks to seize their land and drive them northwards; the second is within Lebanon itself, against a state that seeks to marginalise them

Houssam Itani

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