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Ali Shaath and his fiancée Samiha al-Tanir in 1937

Digital archive to help reunite Palestinians in the diaspora

Palestinian Researcher Samar Dewidar is set to launch 'Palestinian Stories' — a digital archive to help bring together Palestinian diaspora families who were separated due to the Israeli occupation

Nesrein El-Bakhshawangy 07 June 2023

A group of Palestinian refugees walk along the road from Jerusalem to Lebanon on November 9, 1948. AFP

Palestinian intellectuals determined in their pursuit to accurately chronicle the Nakba

An analysis of the events and currents leading up to, during, and after the Nakba, together with an assessment of the available historical records

Mohamed abi Samra 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
Marta Kochanek

Split lens: Selective portrayals of the Palestinian Nakba in cinema

For years, Palestinians and Israelis have employed cinema to depict contrasting narratives of Palestine. But to what end?

Mohammed Rouda 14 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 Pushing an outdated narrative does more harm than good.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
A Palestinian artist paints a mural at the Yarmuk refugee camp in the southern suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus on November 2, 2022. AFP

How Palestinian refugee camps became a gathering place for dreamers

Typically, refugees of war return home in peacetime. This didn't happen for the Palestinians who have been in exile since 1948. Their temporary shelter has become their seemingly permanent abode.

Sameer Al-zapen 13 May 2023

Palestinians absent from their own cause

The bleak situation in Palestine cannot solely be attributed to Israeli colonial policies, US support, or Arab inaction. The Palestinians have also played their part in perpetuating the situation

Asaad Ghanem 12 May 2023
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People shout slogans as they gather after a two-week ceasefire in the Iran war was announced, in Tehran, Iran, 8 April 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
Politics

US-Iran ceasefire unlikely to hold

07 April 2026

If the ceasefire collapses, China has an interest in getting the two sides back to the table, but it would be a difficult task given Tehran's deep mistrust of the US and Israel.

Xiaotong Yang
Grace Russell
Politics

Gulf states should steer clear of attritional war traps

01 April 2026

The US-Israeli war against Iran aims to draw in Gulf states, but history has shown that entering wars is far easier than exiting them. Prudence is needed now more than ever.

Khairuldeen Al Makhzoomi
Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin speaks at a press conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 25 August, 2025. Luka Dakskobler / Getty
Politics

'Israel is exploiting Iran war to kill a Palestinian state'

01 April 2026

PA Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin tells Al Majalla that Israel is taking advantage of the fact that the world is distracted by the US-Iran war to create irreversible facts on the ground

Ahmed Maher
People gather during a celebration called by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) at the Umayyad Square, after the ousting of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, 20 December, 2024. Reuters / Ammar
Business & Economy

US-Iran war gives Syria's global economic pitch more urgency

01 April 2026

Given the effective closure of the Hormuz Strait and Houthi threats to close off the Red Sea, Syria may emerge as a corridor and conduit to bypass these embattled maritime chokepoints

Charles Lister
Farid al-Madhan Reuters/ Al Majalla
Politics

Farid al-Madhan: Assad's fingerprints were on every picture

31 March 2026

A former army forensics employee who later became known as Caesar tells Al Majalla how he risked his life to expose the torture and killing of countless Syrians in regime prisons

Ibrahim Hamidi

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