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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
Ambulances wait in line at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Palestinian Gaza Strip, in northeastern Egypt on the first day of the evacuation of some 50 Palestinian, at the Rafah crossing on 2 February 2026. AFP

The Rafah crossing is open, but so is the battle for Gaza

Israel wants Palestinians to leave the Strip as part of its 'depopulation and resettlement' strategy, but Egypt is fighting to give them the option to return to their homeland

Amr Emam 04 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
AFP / Al Majalla

Trump's Board of Peace gives hints of his vision for a new world order

Critics worry the BOP is a bid to dismantle the post-1945 international order and replace it with structures under the US president's direct control, with scope stretching well beyond Gaza

Tarek Rashed 25 January 2026
Ali Shaath during a press interview with a local radio station.
 Reuters

Ali Shaath: Gaza’s technocrat of reconstruction

Responsibility for the enclave's reconstruction has been placed in the hands of an experienced civil engineer native to Gaza

Mohammed Najib 17 January 2026
Field Marshal Asim Munir Asim Munir laying a wreath at the Martyrs' Memorial during a guard of honor review ceremony at General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on 21 May 2025.
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Pakistan emerges as a Middle East power broker 

With 2026 unfolding amidst unprecedented global uncertainty, Pakistan's military has carved out a global role from the White House to the Levant

Kamal Alam 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
Lina Jaradat

How Israel's war on Gaza helped the Arab world rediscover its agency

In response to events since October 2023, Middle East nations have found that they are strong when acting in concert. This has the power to fundamentally change the game.

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 26 December 2025
Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and Egypt's Abdel Fattah al-Sisi have not seen eye-to-eye since October 2023. AFP/Al Majalla

Egypt-Israel ties being tested by concerns over Gaza and Sinai

A $35bn gas supply deal between these two neighbours is being held up by political disagreements, some of which relate to their 1979 peace treaty. What next for the Israel-Egypt relationship?

Amr Emam 17 December 2025
Eduardo Ramon

Eyal Zamir: the army chief trying to save Israel from Netanyahu

This is the second time that Zamir has reported to Israel's prickly prime minister, but the first time he has publicly disagreed with him. Who will get the better of the argument?

Kamal Alam 26 October 2025
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (C), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif posing after signing the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on 7 August, 2026. PAKISTAN PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE / AFP
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Networked Middle East security

22 August 2026

The Iran war exposed the risks of being too closely tied to US military posture, which is why some Gulf states are repositioning themselves not merely as consumers of security but as architects of it

Bilal Saab
Noelia de Alda
Politics

How Gaza turned US public opinion against Israel

30 August 2026

Supporting Israel used to help politicians get elected, but with Americans far more critical of Tel Aviv's influence on US policy, it has now become a liability at the ballot box

Assal Rad
Axel Rangel Garcia
Science & Technology

How QR codes are reshaping the future of commerce

28 August 2026

The barcode has been the language of retail for more than half a century. Now, two-dimensional codes are giving products a new digital identity

Mohammed Mansour
Motorists drive past a billboard in Tehran depicting Trump drowning in the Strait of Hormuz on 24 August 2026. AFP
Politics

The US is learning the wrong lessons in Iran

25 August 2026

Tactical excellence can never salvage strategic incompetence

Bret Devereaux
Axel Rangel Garcia
Culture & Social Affairs

The artist who used land to capture Palestinian identity

27 August 2026

Sliman Mansour, the renowned Palestinian painter who used clay from his land to make his works after deciding to boycott art materials produced by Israel, has died at the age of 79

Farouk Yousif

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