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People walk amid the destruction in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on October 11, 2025, a day after a ceasefire took effect. AFP

Gaza's partition: Palestinian peril dressed up as pragmatism

Presented as post-war stabilisation, an experiment in controlled fragmentation appears to be underway, with diplomacy, security, and commerce converging to cement a new geopolitical order

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 28 October 2025
A currency exchange shop in the Syrian capital Damascus, on April 16, 2025. AFP

Towards a structural plan to drive development in Syria

Damascus is getting help from abroad, but it needs to set its economic stall out with a plan to rebuild its economy. An organised and disciplined fiscal and monetary policy will keep bankruptcy at bay

Hussein al-Sharaa 31 July 2025
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The priorities for Syria’s central bank after sanctions lifted

After 14 years of conflict, building transparent institutions and systems that meet international standards is a prerequisite for reigniting the economy, says the Governor of the Central Bank of Syria

Abdulkader Husrieh 23 May 2025
Lina Jaradat

From Syria to Gaza: a blueprint for rebuilding the Middle East

A strategy to rebuild post-conflict Arab economies is slowly taking shape despite Israeli intransigence. It's an enormous task, but the cost of inaction is higher.

Alaa Shahine Salha 28 February 2025
Former US government official Jared Kushner, married to Trump's daughter Ivanka, stands behind Trump at the 2024 Republican National Convention on July 18, 2024. Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)

Far from spontaneous, Trump’s plan for Gaza has been plotted

Months before the US president stood on a podium alongside Benjamin Netanyahu and shocked the world, a research paper covered the details of the rebuilding and administration of Gaza

Omar Ayyoubi 22 February 2025
Al Majalla

Hezbollah’s financial promises go up in smoke

There is suppressed anger within Hezbollah's support base over delayed compensation, with the party now suggesting that the onus rests with the Lebanese state

Fayza Diab 09 January 2025
Approximately 72% of all residential buildings in Gaza have been partially or completely destroyed.  Lina Jaradat

Who will shoulder the insurmountable task of rebuilding Gaza?

Sustainable peace in the Middle East will depend on Gulf countries normalising ties with Israel and moving toward a two-state solution for Palestine. Arab nations must seize the initiative.

Sharif Mohammad 17 May 2024
Gaza Strip map. (Source: World reference atlas via Getty Images)

Gaza Struggles with Reconstruction Gaps as Israel Preps for New Battle

With the end of Operation Guardian of the Walls in Gaza, humanitarian agencies have put the cost of the reconstruction process in the Gaza Strip at about $500 million. The process has sparked off an…

Amal Shahada 23 July 2021
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the conflict in the Middle East from Cross- Hall of the White House on May 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Getty)

Biden Can Keep the Two-State Solution Alive

President Joe Biden and his team came into office understandably hoping to deprioritize the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They saw Washington-led negotiations as a trap that had ensnared previous U.S…

Ilan Goldenberg 25 June 2021
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As Sharaa steps into the White House, Syria steps into the US orbit

09 November 2025

In what could be a historic turning point in US-Syria relations, the new government in Damascus will likely join the international coalition against the Islamic State (IS)

Subhi Franjieh
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Zohran Mamdani becomes first Muslim mayor of New York

04 November 2025

The 34-year-old socialist's win is a seismic development, proving that tax rises for the rich to fund social programmes, and unwavering advocacy for Palestinian rights, are politically viable stances

Tarek Rashed
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How Trump reshaped the world

03 November 2025

Al Majalla examines key developments in the US and across the globe less than a year into Trump's second presidential term

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Details of the remains of Palestinians released by Israel are shown on a screen in order to help family members to identify their relatives, at the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on 18 October 2025. OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP
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Closure denied: the agonising search for Gaza's vanished

05 November 2025

Those who are able to bury their dead are among the lucky. For others, not knowing the fate of their missing loved ones or receiving mutilated corpses impossible to identify adds insult to injury.

Salem Al Rayyes
A guest walks in front of a work entitled 'Out of Chaos XIII' by artist Daniel Crews-Chubb at the Frieze London 2025 exhibition in London on 15 October 2025. HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP
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Frieze London 2025: art as algorithm

02 November 2025

Digital art is rewriting the rules of the field, revising the meaning of authenticity, and recalibrating the boundary between virtual and physical. Have we lost something here?

Fai Nasser

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