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A Palestinian man walks with his child after speaking to Reuters at an undisclosed location in Johannesburg, South Africa after being transfered from Gaza via Israel on 14 November, 2025. Reuters

Inside the shadow network moving Palestinians abroad

A plane carrying Gaza refugees arrived in Johannesburg earlier this month, exposing a systematic pattern of organised transfers that had Israeli military coordination

Michael Horowitz 24 November 2025
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L), Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (C) and Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama attend a working group session on Migration in Woodstock, southern England, on July 18, 2024. Hollie Adams / AFP

Goo-goo for Giorgia: Why Starmer is so smitten with Italy's migration policies

A look at Meloni's deal with Albania and what Labour hopes to learn from the far-right Brothers of Italy and its tough-on-migration approach

Bryn Haworth 05 October 2024
Migrants disembark from a lifeboat on the southeast coast of England after being picked up at sea while crossing the English Channel from France on August 16, 2023. HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP

Europe's leaders take notes on Meloni's tough migration stance

At a time when so many European leaders are facing intense political pressure to resolve the migrant crisis, the Italian PM's ability to reduce illegal migration by 60% has turned heads

Con Coughlin 29 September 2024
How migration, employment, and education are weakening the patriarchy and strengthening the nuclear family unit. Nesma Moharam

Palestinians in the diaspora: How the nuclear family unit is challenging the patriarchy

Through the story of a Palestinian couple who migrated to Saudi Arabia in search of better opportunities, Al Majalla explores the evolution of the Palestinian family.

Ahmad Ezzeddin Assaad 09 September 2023
taken on March 08, 2019 People wave Algerian national flags in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. AFP

France and Algeria's 'special' relationship is being tested once again

A migration accord between Algeria and its former colonial ruler struck in 1968 is now at the heart of the political reaction to riots following a police killing of a youth of Algerian descent

Rabie Khreis 17 July 2023
Nathalie Lees

As Sudan burns, one refugee embarks on a harrowing journey into the unknown

Like the Palestinians before them, Sudan's people seek refuge from war and dream of return. This is one personal story of conflict's devastating arrival in Khartoum.

Amgad Fareid Eltayeb 10 July 2023
A general view shot shows a neighborhood in the Syrian capital Damascus. (AFP PHOTO / LOUAI BESHARA)

Stagnation in Syria’s Real Estate Market

The efforts of countries located in Syria’s vicinity and working to return Syrian refugees to their country forced the refugees to head to the real estate market, which is witnessing a major…

Jiwan Soz 26 August 2022
A handout photo made available by Belta news agency shows migrants gathering on the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region, Belarus, 08 November 2021 (issued 09 November 2021). EPA/LEONID

From Syria to Belarus: A Little Hope for Reaching Families in Germany

since the outbreak of the Syrian war nearly a decade ago, which followed the outbreak of popular protests against President Bashar al-Assad in various regions of the country in mid-March of 2011,…

Jiwan Soz 12 November 2021
Sam Ali as (Yahya Mahayni), who becomes a work of art, in front of a crowd in a scene from the film. (Supplied)

The Man Who Sold His Skin: A Movie About Syrian Refugees’ Suffering

Imagine a Schengen visa engraved on your back so that you can travel freely as an artwork and not a human? If you are asked by a famous tattoo artist to sell your skin for him to draw on it and…

Salma Adham 25 June 2021

Only Migration Can Save the Welfare State

In the coming decades, the developed world will face a daunting demographic challenge. As life expectancy goes up and fertility rates go down inNorth America,Europe, and the Pacific nations…

Lant Pritchett 06 March 2020
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Syria's new post-sanctions test

22 December 2025

Damascus finally gets breathing room after the US repealed its draconian Caesar sanctions, but it can't exhale just yet. Al Majalla explains why.

Haid Haid
Opinion

Israeli gas and the crafting of a 'new Middle East'

22 December 2025

The US is poised to use Israeli gas as a lever to keep Iran on the backfoot following its regional setback, and it could even use it to undercut Russia's economy

Ibrahim Hamidi
Women and children at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to el-Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan, in January 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed Zakaria
Politics

After el-Fasher: the trajectory of war in Sudan

16 November 2025

Washington seems to have changed its tone after the RSF committed atrocities in October, putting increasing pressure on the foreign backers of a paramilitary that now controls Darfur. What next?

Amgad Fareid Eltayeb
Despite a new president, a new prime minister, a new government, and a new central bank governor, what has actually changed after Lebanon's economic collapse? Lina Jaradat
Business & Economy

A state in crisis: Lebanon’s struggle to restore financial stability 

20 December 2025

Following the appointment of a new president, Lebanon has struggled to come to terms with the deep-rooted challenges of its financial collapse

Toufic Chanbour
Culture & Social Affairs

This year in film: landmark moments across platforms

22 December 2025

Al Majalla looks back at a memorable and haunting year in film, with Kaouther Ben Hania's The Voice of Hind Rajab one of 2025's most powerful works

Wael Said

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