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Palestinian brothers sit on the rubble of their house in front of an apartment block in part of the northern Beit Hanun district of the Gaza Strip. AFP

Gaza's "day after" poised to bring more strife than stability

The fact that Netanyahu still insists on managing the conflict rather than resolving it should worry us all. Al Majalla looks at how Netanyahu is only hardening his stance on a two-state solution.

Michael Horowitz 20 December 2023
Axel Rangel Garcia/Eyal Warshavsky/Majalla

Yair Lapid to Al Majalla: A Palestinian state will be delayed significantly, but the idea not dead

In an exclusive interview with Al Majalla, former Israeli prime minister and now opposition leader Yair Lapid lists the pressing issues he sees for Israel and the obstacles to peace

Ahmed Maher 19 December 2023
Axel Rangel Garcia/Majalla

If it’s abnormal in Jerusalem, it’s because ‘we are filled with love’

The Nachloat tour, why is the word 'co-existence' absurd? how can you tell if you are hopeless? And the 'big lie' of a temporary military occupation

Ahmed Maher 18 December 2023
A protestor holds a sign depicting a Palestinian flag and reading "Spain in solidarity with Palestine" during a demonstration called for the Human Rights to Peace, in Madrid, on December 10, 2023. AFP

Navigating Western responses to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: The need for a new approach

Israel's disproportionate assault on Gaza in response to attacks from Hamas has reinforced Arab, Islamic – and increasingly – rising global commitment to ending Palestinian suffering.

Bader Mousa Al-Saif 12 December 2023
Sebastien Thibault

Gaza is Biden's other defining foreign policy issue

Besides the war in Ukraine, Gaza has been a defining foreign policy challenge for the Biden administration and larger US interests in the Middle East

Caroline Rose 09 December 2023
Nujaba fighters taking part in the Baghdad funeral procession for Qassem Sulaimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. January 4, 2020 Shelly Kittleson

US attack on Nujaba in Iraq lays bare widening rifts

As pressure mounts in the US to "do more" to deter attacks allegedly backed by Iran, Iraqi armed factions seem ever more divided.

Shelly Kittleson 09 December 2023
Israel has allocated $8bn for the war, which is a loss to its economy, while the war drains an additional $260mn per day from the Israeli economy. Ewan White

Israel can recover economic losses but not investor confidence

Israel has allocated $8bn for the war, which is a loss to its economy, while the war drains an additional $260mn per day from the Israeli economy.

Abdel-Rahman Ayas 08 December 2023
In its stated goal to eradicate Hamas, Israel has vowed to hunt down its leaders across the world. Al Majalla profiles the long list of Palestinian figures killed by Israel. AlMajalla

Saleh al-Arouri assassinated in Beirut: Top Palestinian figures killed by Israel over the years

In its stated goal to eradicate Hamas, Israel has vowed to hunt down its leaders across the world. Al Majalla profiles the long list of Palestinian figures killed by Israel.

Sami Moubayed 08 December 2023
Brian Stauffer

How Israel misread Hamas

The intelligence failure that led Israel to misread Egypt in 1973 is, in fact, the same as that which led it to believe Hamas was not looking for war.

Michael Horowitz 06 December 2023
Jay Torres

Escalation of Gaza war raises risks to the Middle East

As the Israel-Hamas war rages on in Gaza, the region runs the risk of a major escalation

Andrew Tabler 03 December 2023
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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
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa Al Majalla
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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