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In the September issue of Al Majalla, we take a deep dive into the US-Saudi negotiations with a wide array of articles and interviews that dissect the issue from various angles. Mona Eing & Michael Meissner

With an eye on China, the US could offer Saudi Arabia unprecedented security guarantees

International media publications have leaked reports of US-Saudi negotiations. Al Majalla breaks down the possible challenges and benefits that could come from the actualisation of such a deal.

Al Majalla - London 07 September 2023
Students of Arbil's College of Journalism hold portraits of Shifa Gardi, an Iraqi female journalist for Kurdish network Rudaw who was killed while covering the Mosul offensive, during a memorial ceremony on February 26, 2017. AFP

Abduction of Russian-Israeli researcher sheds light on Iraq's kidnapping problem

An Israeli-Russian researcher's reported abduction in central Baghdad in March has drawn international attention but unsolved kidnappings have long plagued Iraq

Shelly Kittleson 07 July 2023
Men sit before a wall displaying pictures of killed Palestinians in Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank on July 5, 2023, after the Israeli army declared the end of a two-day military operation in the area. AFP

Why Israel is threatened by Jenin

The camp's residents show strong social cohesion. Unlike many other cities and villages in the West Bank, it is not characterised by political divisions.

Salem Al Rayyes 05 July 2023
At its core, Netanyahuism is the aspiration to exercise complete control over what Netanyahu refers to as "the land of Israel" and prevent any establishment of a Palestinian state. Sebastien Thibault

Israel’s ‘Netanyahuism’ runs deeper than judicial reform

At its core, Netanyahuism is the aspiration to exercise complete control over what Netanyahu refers to as "the land of Israel" and prevent any establishment of a Palestinian state

Asaad Ghanem 24 June 2023
In this file picture, a Palestinian boy makes the 'V'-sign for victory looks at an Israeli tank n the outskirts of Beit Hanun, north of Gaza City 24 January 2003. AFP

It’s time for a realistic approach to Palestinian resistance

Israel has consistently managed to subdue all forms of resistance, whether peaceful or military, but this doesn't mean Palestinians should give up. A different approach could make a difference.

Majed Kayali 28 May 2023
Cars burnt in an attack by Israeli settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Hawara. Reuters

With the rise in settler violence, are Israel's far-right groups actually militias?

The rise in settler violence indicates that the extremist ideology has hardened over the years

Ahmed Maher 25 May 2023
The 17 May Agreement of 1983. Getty

The 17 May Agreement of 1983: A perfect failure

The final agreement explicitly stated that both Lebanon and Israel "recognise their obligation to live in peace with each other," thereby ending the state of war between them

Sami Moubayed 17 May 2023
Israel's separation wall. Getty Images

Some takeaways from this year’s Nakba anniversary

The two-state solution is becoming a distant dream and the Oslo Peace Accords, which launched the peace process in 1993 to establish a Palestinian state, are barely remembered.

Ahmed Maher 15 May 2023
Ongoing and systematic policies aimed at subjugating and dispersing the Palestinian people continue to this day. Nesma Moharam

The Palestinian Nakba did not end in 1948

The Nakba should be understood as an ever-present reality rather than a historical event that ended in 1948

Nour Bader 15 May 2023
There are myths, misunderstandings and failings in the story of the fate of Palestine from 1948. Pushing an outdated narrative does more harm than good. Barbara Gibson

75 years later, unpacking the Palestinian Nakba still difficult

The ramifications of the events of 1948 are still being felt and are still doing harm. Narratives about what happened vary, but anger runs deep.

Majed Kayali 14 May 2023
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As Sharaa steps into the White House, Syria steps into the US orbit

09 November 2025

In what could be a historic turning point in US-Syria relations, the new government in Damascus will likely join the international coalition against the Islamic State (IS)

Subhi Franjieh
Axel Rangel Garcia
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Barbara Leaf on being the first US official to meet Ahmed Sharaa

10 November 2025

On Monday, the Syrian president shook hands with Trump at the White House. Speaking to Al Majalla, a former State Department official explains why this is a moment she could have never imagined.

Ibrahim Hamidi
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Zohran Mamdani becomes first Muslim mayor of New York

04 November 2025

The 34-year-old socialist's win is a seismic development, proving that tax rises for the rich to fund social programmes, and unwavering advocacy for Palestinian rights, are politically viable stances

Tarek Rashed
Details of the remains of Palestinians released by Israel are shown on a screen in order to help family members to identify their relatives, at the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on 18 October 2025. OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP
Politics

Closure denied: the agonising search for Gaza's vanished

05 November 2025

Those who are able to bury their dead are among the lucky. For others, not knowing the fate of their missing loved ones or receiving mutilated corpses impossible to identify adds insult to injury.

Salem Al Rayyes
Ewan White
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How Trump reshaped the world

03 November 2025

Al Majalla examines key developments in the US and across the globe less than a year into Trump's second presidential term

Al Majalla - London

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