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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
Al Majalla

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
The novel's publisher, Rana Idris, received the award on behalf of Bassem Khandakji, alongside his brother Yousef.

Basim Khandaqji wins top Arabic literary award from behind prison bars

The jailed Palestinian author won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for his book, 'A Mask, the Colour of the Sky', which tells the story of a Palestinian man who finds and uses an Israeli ID

Ibrahim Adel 30 April 2024
Axel Rangel Garcia/Majalla

Feeling lost in Jerusalem? It’s called Palestinian self-demolitions

Five decades of demolition of Palestinian houses in occupied East Jerusalem

Ahmed Maher 26 April 2024
Lina Jaradat/Majalla

Ehud Olmert to Al Majalla: Netanyahu-led government wants Armageddon and endless occupation

The former Israeli prime minister on the aimless Gaza war, the dangers posed by the far-right, and why he believes Benjamin Netanyahu should be fired as soon as possible.

Ahmed Maher 28 March 2024
The Secretary General of Fatah's Central Committee Jibril Rajoub tells Al Majalla that the Palestinians need a unified strategy to mend divisions and leverage new-found global support for their cause. Lina Jaradat

Jibril Rajoub: The world can no longer ignore Palestine

The Secretary General of Fatah's Central Committee tells Al Majalla that the Palestinians need a unified strategy to mend divisions and leverage new-found global support for their cause

Ahmed Maher 26 March 2024
Palestinian children carry traditional "fanous" lanterns in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on the eve of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan on March 10, 2024.

Israel's war casts dark shadow on Ramadan in Gaza

The joy normally associated with this holy Muslim month has disappeared from people's faces. Al Majalla speaks to displaced Palestinians who barely have enough food to feed their families.

Salem Al Rayyes 12 March 2024
The Abraham Accords signing ceremony event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Sept. 15, 2020 AFP

Israelis deeply divided on Arab normalisation

The Israeli centre has shown more understanding that normalisation will be tied to progress towards a Palestinian state, whereas the far right opposes any concessions

Michael Horowitz 08 March 2024
Dr. Nasser al-Kidwa is the former Foreign Minister of the Palestinian National Authority and the nephew of the late leader Yasser Arafat. Al Majalla

Where are we heading to?

We should work toward a national Palestinian position supported by a unified Arab position acceptable to major global powers

Nasser al-Kidwa 01 March 2024
The Palestinian Fatah movement was founded in 1959 by members of the Palestinian diaspora. Over the years, its tactics have evolved. Lina Jaradat

Fatah’s fortunes: From revolutionary zeal to settling for scraps

In three generations, Palestinians have sought liberation, return, Jerusalem, statehood, nationhood, self-governance, and autonomy. Fatah has changed with the times and with events.

Majed Kayali 14 February 2024
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IRGC soldiers march during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran on 22 September, 2018. AFP
Politics

The US-Iran war could empower the IRGC

09 March 2026

When states are attacked, authority gravitates towards institutions capable of mobilising resources, enforcing discipline, and coordinating a military response

Alex Vatanka
A picture of Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, displayed on a screen in Tehran, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, on 9 March 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
Politics

Iran’s defiant regime picks a new supreme leader

09 March 2026

The appointment suggests the Revolutionary Guards have the upper hand

The Economist
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian is greeted by Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi during the D-8 summit in Cairo, Egypt, on 19 December 2024. AFP
Politics

Egypt fears an unrestrained Israel if Iran collapses

06 March 2026

Cairo and Tehran have been at loggerheads since 1979, but the Iranian threat has always acted as a check on Israeli ambitions. If Iran is completely defeated, Israel will reign supreme.

Amr Emam
A boy plays with his sheep next to an unexploded missile that landed in an open field on the outskirts of Qamishli, eastern Syria, on 5 March 2026. DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFP
Business & Economy

Syria may escape war but not its economic fallout

08 March 2026

Even if it stays on the sidelines of the US-Iran war, the country is fragile. Unlike larger economies that can absorb shocks in global markets, it has little room to cushion the impact.

Haid Haid
The displaced Palestinian Abu Mustafa family sits together as they break the dawn-to-dusk Ramadan fast during Iftar in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on 26 February 2026. Photo by EYAD BABA / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Ramadan in Gaza: food scarcity compounds suffering

03 March 2026

The iftar table, if it still exists, no longer represents joy, but anxiety and scarcity

Hala Al-Naji

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