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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has recently passed away at the age of 86 after a battle with an incurable disease. EPA

Silvio Berlusconi: The charismatic Italian premier chased by controversy

Berlusconi — Italy's longest-serving prime minister — passed away recently at the age of 86. Despite a career mired in controversy, the Italian public continuously re-elected him to office.

Khattar Abu Diab 15 June 2023
Illustrated by Jeannette Khouri

Hady Amr: Biden's Envoy for Calm Between Palestinians and Israelis

A Lebanese-born politician and expert has the task of defusing tension and stopping the escalation of fighting in the Palestinian territories. It is Hady Amr, the US Assistant Secretary of State…

Al Majalla - London 10 June 2022
Cal Thomas

Kissinger’s Ukraine Opinions Meets Opposition

On Monday, 25 of May, in New York, Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State, and a prominent realist politician and academician, was dressed-up to attend a party celebrating his 99th birthday …

Mohammad Ali Salih - Washington 03 June 2022
Illustration by Ali Mandalawi

Ahmed Aboutaleb: Promoter of Peace, Freedom and Equal Rights

Ahmed Aboutaleb, a Moroccan-Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA), journalist, and mayor of the Dutch city of Rotterdam, won the award for the best mayor in the world for the year 2021. …

Majalla 25 September 2021
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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
Jay Torres
Politics

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
AFP / Al Majalla
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
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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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