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Axel Rangel Garcia

Israel escalates war against Hamas with Doha strike

Qatar decried the strike as a violation of international law

John Haltiwanger 10 September 2025
A man checks the destruction inside the heavily damaged Syrian army and defence ministry headquarters complex in Damascus, following Israeli strikes on July 16, 2025. Bakr ALkasem / AFP

Why a Syria-Israel security agreement is so important

Al-Sharaa confirmed the possibility of clinching a deal during a meeting with Arab journalists earlier this month, accompanied by a US push for Israel to cooperate in this regard

Michael Harari 10 September 2025
Activists protest near the US Capitol on July 24, 2024, in Washington, DC. Activists staged multiple demonstrations near the Capitol to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington and Israel's war on Gaza. Alex Wong/ AFP

Americans are tiring of Israel. Will US policy follow?

While the US public has long been supportive of Israel, its genocide in Gaza appears to have had a big effect, with most young Americans now outright hostile towards it

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 09 September 2025
Shelly Kittleson

Israel looms large over Daraa as displaced recount horrors

Al Majalla visited the southern province known as "the cradle of the Syrian revolution", as Israeli airstrikes continued, and schools filled with IDPs from Sweida

Shelly Kittleson 08 September 2025
Sara Padovan

Are land grabs becoming the norm in today's world?

Trump's willingness to cede Ukrainian land to Russia will have global repercussions, but the acceptance of land seizures actually goes back decades, with Israel being a serial offender

Christopher Phillips 28 August 2025
People mourn for Palestinian journalists Moaz Abu Taha and Hussam al-Masri, a Reuters contractor, who were killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in Gaza on August 25, 2025, along with 15 others. AFP

'Genocide didn't unfold in Gaza; it was the intent all along'

A new book by Lebanese jurist Mazen Shindab provides an invaluable legal resource on the genocide in Gaza, laying bare the flaws of international law and the moral imperative to hold Israel to account

Abdul Rahman Mazhar Halloush 25 August 2025

'Greater Israel' threatens to stain the region

Fares Garabet 25 August 2025
Al Majalla

Kamal Jumblatt’s letter to Assad days before he was killed

The Druze leader, whose forces were winning Lebanon's civil war, disagreed with Syria's president over it. Now, Al Majalla publishes a letter he sent to Assad, aiming to put them on the same page.

Al Majalla - London 23 August 2025
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men stand at one of the gates to the Haram Al Sharif during the annual Tisha B'Av commemorating the destruction of ancient Jewish temples some 2,000 years ago. Menahem Kahana / AFP

Once shrugged off, Al Aqsa violations now irk more Israelis

There is a growing awareness in Israeli society, deeply divided by the war in Gaza, that such provocations by far-right Jewish zealots do nothing but fan the flames of violence

Daniel Seidemann 22 August 2025
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in front of a map of the Middle East during a press conference at the Government Press Office (GPO) in Jerusalem on September 4, 2024. ABIR SULTAN / AFP

Time to worry? Netanyahu says he ‘connects’ to a Greater Israel

Those watching the Israeli prime minister over the years will not be surprised to hear of his affiliation with the idea of a much larger State of Israel. Now he is acting on it.

Amr Emam 20 August 2025
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Politics

Trump’s deal: repercussions in the Gulf, Iran, and Israel

18 June 2026

The MOU reached by the two warring nations forces a rethink of the Middle East's political, security, and economic landscape

Al Majalla - London
Opinion

Hormuz may reopen, but the deal is strewn with mines

21 June 2026

Perhaps Lebanon, not the nuclear file, will become the real test of the agreement's ability to survive

Ibrahim Hamidi
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Politics

New laws will embed Israel in US security agencies

16 June 2026

Legislation to fund the American military and intelligence services will include requirements that Israeli defence firms be involved in sensitive projects and that classified information be shared

Robert Ford
Business & Economy

Hormuz is open, but obstacles to trade still linger

22 June 2026

Even if diplomatic progress continues, the Strait could be closed again. As a result, the geopolitical risk premium attached to Gulf energy exports is unlikely to disappear entirely.

Neil Quilliam
A painting by the Egyptian artist George Bahgory from the series “Love and Football”.
George Bahgoury via Facebook
Culture & Social Affairs

Football and art: fusing a popular sport with culture

22 June 2026

Artists use paintings, sculpture, murals, and digital designs to iconise, idolise, and mythologise football culture in a language understood by all

Mimoza Al-Arrawi

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