The Palestinian Authority president will meet Turkey's president who supports Abbas's rivals, representatives of whom may conveniently be in Ankara at the same time. Is this PR, or time to talk?
The respected technocrat is the latest in a revolving door of prime ministers under Mahmoud Abbas. He arrives at a critical time when Palestine's future is at stake.
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,…
Last summer, Jared Kushner, one of President Trump’s Senior Advisors, went to Manama, Bahrain to present the economic component of the administration’s Middle East peace plan. While many Israeli…
While Israel has held two inconclusive elections this year, the Palestinian Authority could be heading toward its first parliamentary and presidential elections in 14 years, something that until…
Disruption in the Hormuz can have major implications for global trade, but it also creates opportunities for smaller nations like Iran to become global political players
The Iraq war was viewed as disastrous in retrospect, while the Iran war was unpopular from the get-go. Al Majalla highlights the similarities and differences between the two.
Pipelines have a chequered history in the Middle East, but the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led US Tom Barrack to conclude that a new route through Syria could solve some problems.