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Demonstrators march during the “Palestine to Africa- Palestinian Liberation is Black Liberation” protest in New York on November 5, 2023. AFP

Israel's war on Gaza set to stall global economic recovery

Israel's war on Gaza is the most dangerous threat to the stability of the region and the wider world. Most observers agree that it is likely to be a long-term conflict.

Mohamed Sharki 08 November 2023
Unstable geopolitics traps money in defence spending and away from economic development to this day, in a pattern that goes back to 1948. Change is needed, with big challenges ahead. Shutterstock

How decades of conflict with Israel has hindered economic development in the Arab world

Unstable geopolitics traps money in defence spending and away from economic development to this day, in a pattern that goes back to 1948. Change is needed, with big challenges ahead.

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 02 November 2023
A Palestinian carries a girl injured in the Israeli bombing of Rafah on October 17. AFP

Catastrophe in Gaza and Western complicity

After seismic events shift Palestinian politics, it is time to look at the transformed circumstances of a long struggle, as well as the factors that always defy change throughout turbulent times

Majed Kayali 23 October 2023
Protesters, holding banners in support of Palestinians, take part in a vigil outside Downing Street, in London, on October 18, 2023, in tribute of the victims of Gaza hospital strike.

Al-Ahli Hospital massacre in Gaza: Medical staff speak out

The 100-year-old hospital was rendered non-operational after an October 17 strike, which has so far claimed 471 lives and left more than a thousand wounded. The incident sparked global outrage.

Salem Al Rayyes 22 October 2023
Burj el-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon. AP

Palestinians besieged by 'stigma' in Lebanon camps

Palestinians in Lebanon are deprived of the most basic rights and subjected to stereotypes and discriminatory laws that hinder their development and progress.

Joudy El-Asmar 18 October 2023
The 7 October Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent brutal Israeli military campaign on Gaza beg the question: Can mutual animosity between Israel and the Arab world ever be resolved? Nathalie Lees

New approaches needed to end the vicious cycle of violence in the Middle East

The 7 October Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent brutal Israeli military campaign on Gaza beg the question: Can mutual animosity between Israel and the Arab world ever be resolved?

Houssam Itani 17 October 2023
History has proven that cutting separate peace deals with Israel has not led to a comprehensive and lasting peace for the region. The potential of a Saudi-Israel normalisation opens a new door. Nash Weerasekera

Can peace efforts break through the barbed wire of war?

History has proven that cutting separate peace deals with Israel has not led to a comprehensive and lasting peace for the region. The potential of a Saudi-Israel normalisation opens a new door.

Brian Katulis 14 October 2023
Zouari lived in the shadows. Relocating repeatedly, his clandestine association with Hamas stayed hidden until the day he was assassinated. Albane Simon

Mohamed Zouari: The Tunisian engineer behind Hamas drones

Zouari lived in the shadows. Relocating repeatedly, his clandestine association with Hamas stayed hidden until the day he was assassinated.

Kawthar Zantour 11 October 2023
Unemployment, poverty and a bleak outlook have recently led many Gazans to take their own life. These conditions are unsustainable and put the recent outbreak of war into context. Majalla

Outbreak of war sheds light on Gaza's dire conditions and rising suicide rate

Unemployment, poverty and a bleak outlook have recently led many Gazans to take their own life. These conditions are unsustainable and put the recent outbreak of war into context.

Houssam Marouf 08 October 2023
Before the Nakba erased Palestinian cities, women were present in modern society, culture and politics. A new book proves this, refuting the false claim that Palestine is 'a land without a people'. Aliaa Abou Khaddour

How the Nakba erased great Palestinian cities, and their women, from our collective memory

Before the Nakba erased Palestinian cities, women were present in modern society, culture and politics. A new book proves this, refuting the false claim that Palestine is 'a land without a people'.

Ahmad Ezzeddin Assaad 04 October 2023
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Trump's visit tests 'special' US-UK relationship

16 September 2025

Despite Trump's often hostile engagement with traditional US allies, Starmer has trodden a careful path to keep him on side. But is this sustainable?

Christopher Phillips
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'The Voice of Hind Rajab' shows cries for justice are only getting louder

07 September 2025

A 24-minute standing ovation at the film premiere was more than a symbolic gesture of justice for Israel's murder of little Hind, but a heartfelt cry of real anguish over the ongoing genocide in Gaza

Samer Abou Hawwach
Armed men from the MSA, an armed political movement in Mali's Azawad region, gather in the desert outside Menaka on March 14, 2020. AFP
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The Sahel's paramilitary problem

09 September 2025

Armed groups are being formed in places like Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, where state militaries cannot defeat jihadists and separatists alone. Once formed, however, they seldom stay loyal.

Sergey Eledinov
Egyptian writer May Telmissany poses during a portrait session held on April 15, 2014, in Paris, France. Ulf Andersen/Getty
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May Telmissany: writing is an act of resistance against the ugliness of the world

14 September 2025

The acclaimed Egyptian writer talks love, betrayal, autobiography, and the lack of Arab literary identity

El-Sayed Hussein
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Butterfly effect: can the Palestine protest movement turn the tide?

14 September 2025

For nearly two years, protests around the world calling for an end to Israel's war on Gaza haven't fizzled out, but grown. Their geographic reach and longevity appear to have no precedent in history.

Bryn Haworth

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