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Fares Garabet

An uphill battle worth battling for

Fares Garabet 31 July 2025
Smoke rises from an Israeli strike as the sun sets behind destroyed buildings in the Gaza Strip, on July 21, 2025. Jack Guez/AFP

One last chance, before the sun sets on a Palestinian State

In 1947, the world's nations came together to propose the partition of Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states. One happened, the other did not. When they meet, will they right that wrong?

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 22 July 2025
In October 1936, the French government and the Syrian National Bloc signed the Franco-Syrian Treaty of Alliance, giving independence to Syria. Two months earlier, a Zionist delegation was given short shrift by the Bloc. Getty Images

‘You may leave’: a 1936 meeting between Syrian and Zionist leaders

Minutes of a confidential discussion record an increasingly heated exchange that ended with the Jewish delegation being shown the door.

Sami Moubayed 06 June 2025
Spanish actor Lluís Marco

Taha in Barcelona: Spain learns of the life of a Palestinian poet

Taha Muhammad Ali felt the lifelong pain of displacement after Israeli forces took control of his beloved village in 1948. A pared-back one-man show of his life leaves the audience thinking of Gaza.

Samer Abou Hawwach 27 April 2025
The cover of "The Book of Disappearance"

Booker-nominated novel asks: what if Palestinians vanished?

'The Book of Disappearance' by Ibtisam Azem revisits 1948 and its lasting impact of displacement and occupation, presenting a Palestine of memory and a Palestine of today

Ali Almuqri 26 March 2025
Mo Amer in 'Mo' Eddy Chen/Netflix

‘Mo’: a rare humanization of Palestinians on mainstream TV

Now streaming on Netflix, Season 2 delves deeper into the fight for freedom far from Palestine, shining a light on refugee pain and their longing for the homeland

Nawwar Jabbour 17 March 2025
Palestinian director Basel Adra (L) and Israeli director Yuval Abraham pose during a photo session in Paris on October 29, 2024. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP

Oscar winner ‘No Other Land’ fails to highlight the root issue

The documentary about Israel's crimes in the West Bank deserves praise, yet the discourse around the film remains far removed from the heart of the issue: the illegal and immoral military occupation

Samer Abou Hawwach 06 March 2025
In an unprecedented attack, Israeli forces carry out several simultaneous explosions in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, destroying at least 20 houses on February 2, 2025. REUTERS/Mohammed Torokman

With Gaza on backburner, Israel turns its military might on Jenin

Israel blew up 20 homes in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin just as Netanyahu travelled to Washington to meet with Trump, who has suggested Jordan and Egypt absorb Palestinians into their countries

Asaad Ghanem 03 February 2025
إدواردو ريمون/المجلة

Mohammad Shtayyeh on Trump, Hamas and Israel

In an in-depth discussion with Al Majalla at his Ramallah office, the former Palestinian prime minister shared his insights on Trump, Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and Israel's far-right government

Ahmed Maher 31 January 2025
Imam Al-Ghazali Wikicommons

Imam Al-Ghazali is back in the modern-day spotlight

One of Islam's most influential figures is a central character in three contemporary novels, as the story of his life resonates in today's chaotic world

Ibrahim Adel 23 December 2024
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Trump, Sharaa, and the future of Syria

05 December 2025

There was visible warmth when the US and Syrian presidents met in the Oval Office last month, with some even speculating a Trump visit to Damascus. But there is much to do before that happens.

Robert Ford
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Politics

The GCC moves from ‘safe neutrality’ to ‘indivisible security’

05 December 2025

Following the unprecedented attacks on Qatar, Gulf leaders have pledged to forge a unified defence front, marking a historic shift from cautious neutrality to collective security

Omar Harkous
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The evolution of Latin America’s drug cartels

04 December 2025

What began as a locally rooted trade in coca leaves and opium evolved into a transnational system of cartels that challenged governments, corrupted institutions, and destabilised countries

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra
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Politics

Why the US is asking Lebanon for its bomb back

05 December 2025

When Israel killed a Hezbollah military chief in late November, one GBU-39 bomb failed to detonate, leaving Washington worried that its adversaries could reverse engineer it

Michael Horowitz
Spanish poet Miriam Reyes Wikimedia Commons
Culture & Social Affairs

Spanish poet Miriam Reyes on escaping the prison of the page

03 December 2025

With her collection 'Con' having won Spain's 2025 National Poetry Prize, the Galician writer spoke to Al Majalla about the process of creation as she works on her first novel.

Mohammed Al-Bittari

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