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Palestinians at the funeral of a victim of Israeli bombing in Khan Yunis in Gaza on 16 July 2024 Bashar Taleb/AFP

New Gaza Nakba deepens Palestinian divisions and differences

The Palestinians need and deserve unity, a clear vision, and a feasible long-term strategy. Instead they have rival leaderships both convinced that they are right and the other is wrong.

Majed Kayali 17 July 2024
A still from the film 'Bye Bye Tiberias' Bye Bye Tiberias (2023

‘Bye Bye Tiberias’: A quiet meditation on memory and identity

Lina Soualem's 2023 cinematic masterpiece follows four generations of Palestinian women, with a focus on her and her mother, actress Hiam Abbass. From upheaval and refuge comes serenity and sadness.

Areej Jamal 11 June 2024
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Arafat messages al-Assad as Beirut burns

The PLO chairman now knows that he must leave Lebanon as his fighters are surrounded by the Israelis. The Syrian president is no friend, but agrees to take them in.

Ibrahim Hamidi 25 May 2024
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Gemayel sends message of 'reassurance' to al-Assad

With an eye on the Lebanese presidency, the Phalange commander and sworn enemy of Syria sends secret messages of 'reassurance' to al-Assad. Meanwhile, Damascus refuses to host PLO fighters.

Ibrahim Hamidi 24 May 2024
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is applauded by MPs after delivering a speech to announce that Spain will recognise Palestine as a state on May 28 at the Congress of Deputies in Madrid on May 22, 2024. Thomas COEX / AFP

Analysis of tripartite developments at the international level regarding Palestine

Palestine's UN membership, European recognition, and international judicial actions

Nasser al-Kidwa 24 May 2024
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Secret documents detail Arafat's departure from Beirut

Al Majalla begins its five-part series revealing never-before-shared details of Israel's 1982 siege of Beirut and exchanges between Hafez al-Assad and Yasser Arafat

Ibrahim Hamidi 21 May 2024

Ehud Barak opens up about a possible major strategic blunder and whether Oslo was a trick

Israel's former prime minister and army chief Ehud Barak speaks to Al Majalla in an exclusive interview

Ahmed Maher 19 May 2024
Bahrain King’s Representative for Humanitarian Work and Youth Affairs, Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad al-Khalifa receives Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas upon his arrival to attend the 33rd Arab Summit, in Manama, Bahrain, May 15, 2024 Reuters

Arab states once created the PLO. Its successor could be shaped at the Manama summit.

With millions of Palestinians under threat from the far-right Israeli government, now is not the time to disagree on representation. Arab states need to step in, just like they did before.

Majed Kayali 16 May 2024
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Inside the CIA’s secret Palestine partition analysis

A recently declassified document drawn up in 1947 highlights how US intelligence predicted war and Israel's ongoing need for support while worrying about its impact on American interests in the region

Al Majalla - London 15 May 2024
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Kafka in Palestine and the probabilistic era of history

In Palestine, a future has unfolded from which all of us need to defend ourselves. We must find new political techniques to avert this nonsensical era of the worst that cannot stop worsening.

Emanuele Bottazzi Grifoni 10 May 2024
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Networked Middle East security

22 August 2026

The Iran war exposed the risks of being too closely tied to US military posture, which is why some Gulf states are repositioning themselves not merely as consumers of security but as architects of it

Bilal Saab
Noelia de Alda
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How Gaza turned US public opinion against Israel

30 August 2026

Supporting Israel used to help politicians get elected, but with Americans far more critical of Tel Aviv's influence on US policy, it has now become a liability at the ballot box

Assal Rad
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How QR codes are reshaping the future of commerce

28 August 2026

The barcode has been the language of retail for more than half a century. Now, two-dimensional codes are giving products a new digital identity

Mohammed Mansour
Motorists drive past a billboard in Tehran depicting Trump drowning in the Strait of Hormuz on 24 August 2026. AFP
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The US is learning the wrong lessons in Iran

25 August 2026

Tactical excellence can never salvage strategic incompetence

Bret Devereaux
Axel Rangel Garcia
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The artist who used land to capture Palestinian identity

27 August 2026

Sliman Mansour, the renowned Palestinian painter who used clay from his land to make his works after deciding to boycott art materials produced by Israel, has died at the age of 79

Farouk Yousif

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