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Axel Rangel Garcia/Majalla

Feeling lost in Jerusalem? It’s called Palestinian self-demolitions

Five decades of demolition of Palestinian houses in occupied East Jerusalem

Ahmed Maher 26, Apr 2024
Asmahan with Muhammad Al-Tabei

Of love and politics: Asmahan’s turbulent final years in Jerusalem

Egyptian journalist Mohamed Al-Tabii recounts in his book how the Syrian singer navigated the turbulent waters of life in the ancient city during her 31 short years.

Wael Tawfik 18, Apr 2024
Israeli police officers monitor Palestinians performing Friday prayers outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied East Jerusalem on January 19. Reuters

Fears mount over rising Al-Aqsa tensions as Ramadan nears

No single event has a greater potential of triggering a regional war than an incendiary incident at Al-Aqsa during Ramadan — especially against the backdrop of Israel's brutal war on Gaza

Daniel Seidemann 02, Mar 2024
Israeli police confront with mourners as they carry the casket of slain Al Jazeera veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during her funeral in east Jerusalem, Friday, May 13, 2022. Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American reporter who covered the Mideast conflict for more than 25 years, was shot dead Wednesday during an Israeli military raid in the West Bank town of Jenin. (AP Photo/Maya Levin)

Israeli Police Beat Mourners At Journalist’s Funeral

Israeli police on Friday moved in on a crowd of mourners at the funeral of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, beating demonstrators with batons and causing pallbearers to briefly drop the…

AP 13, May 2022
Gamal Abdel Maboud

O! Those Who Are Asleep, Wake Up and Pray to Allah

Cairo during Ramadan has a special flavor that no one can taste but those who take permission from its sultans who were rulers or sultans of the divine love from the Sufis who lay Cairo in the arms…

Gamal Abd El-Maboud 01, Apr 2022
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the conflict in the Middle East from Cross- Hall of the White House on May 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Getty)

Biden Can Keep the Two-State Solution Alive

President Joe Biden and his team came into office understandably hoping to deprioritize the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They saw Washington-led negotiations as a trap that had ensnared previous U.S…

Ilan Goldenberg 25, Jun 2021
Israel's incoming Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked (behind) walks past (R to L) incoming Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Alternate Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, Defense Minister Benny Gantz, and Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman, as Bennet gives an address before the new cabinet at the Knesset on June 13, 2021. (Getty)

New Israeli Govt. Faces Difficult Internal, External Challenges

The Flag March that took place in the Old City of Jerusalem, less than 48 hours after the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) approved the new Bennett-Lapid coalition government, has underscored the…

Amal Shahada 25, Jun 2021
Jeremy Ben-Ami

Three American Jewish Leaders Opine on Gaza Violence

Last week, the ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip appeared to be holding. In the US, the conflict has exposed two major negative developments…

Mohammad Ali Salih 29, May 2021
 Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanon's militant Shiite movement Hezbollah, addresses the crowds through a giant screen at a rally agains US President Trump decision to relocate the US Embassy to Jerusalem, on December 11, 2017 in a Beirut southern suburb. Getty Images

Hezbollah and Gaza: A Dilemma of Self-Preservation

In a televised speech on Tuesday, May 25, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah commented on the most recent Gaza war by proposing a new formula: Jerusalem or regional war. “An attack on Jerusalem or the…

Hanin Ghaddar 29, May 2021
Israeli forces intervene in a protest against Israeli attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip, in Ramallah, West Bank on May 18, 2021. (Getty)

Fighting in Gaza Marks the Start of a More Violent Era

At some point soon, the current military conflict between Israel and Hamas will end. But the ramifications of this latest round of Israeli-Palestinian confrontation—Israeli military strikes in Gaza,…

Khalil Shikaki 21, May 2021
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Iran’s waning influence

27 June 2025

Our July issue features in-depth articles and expert analyses exploring the future of Iran's influence and the long-term reverberations for the region

Al Majalla - London
Emergency workers check the damage caused to a building from an Iranian missile strike in Beersheba in southern Israel on June 24, 2025. John Wessels / AFP
Business & Economy

Counting the cost of the Israel-Iran war

24 June 2025

The recent Israel-Iran war is not just a regional flashpoint; it is a mirror reflecting the fragility and interdependence of the modern global economy

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
Adrián Astorgano
Politics

Shaky Israel-Iran ceasefire points to unfinished business

24 June 2025

What Trump has dubbed the '12-Day War' could be just the opening salvo of a much longer conflict

Michael Horowitz
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Science & Technology

Behind the bombs: the Israel-Iran cyberwar

25 June 2025

Images of rocket trails, explosions, and destruction were broadcast worldwide, but a quieter war in cyberspace was also being waged, and it was no less important

Marco Mossad
Yusra Naim
Profiles

Zohran Mamdani: New York City's first Muslim mayor?

27 June 2025

His supporters say his mayoral primary victory could be an inflexion point in American politics that shows the electoral viability of left-wing policies and support for Palestinian rights

Con Coughlin

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