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How Lebanon’s banks can get money back to depositors

One of the biggest names in the stricken financial sector calls for 'hope' amid the crisis that has reduced millions to poverty and ruined the country's reputation. There is now a detailed plan.

Salwa Baalbaki 20 July 2024
Lebanon's outgoing central bank governor Riad Salameh. Reuters

Salameh gives farewell interview steeped in contradictions

Lebanon's central bank governor leaves office after three decades, leaving depositors and the fate of their life savings in the hands of a crude ruling elite

Toufic Chanbour 31 July 2023
The reputation of monetary and financial policymakers can shift over time. For the governor of Lebanon's central bank, his has collapsed more suddenly, along with the country's financial sector. Axel Rangel Garcia

How a central bank’s failings led to Lebanon’s financial collapse

The reputation of monetary and financial policymakers can shift over time. For the governor of Lebanon's central bank, his has collapsed more suddenly, along with the country's financial sector.

Toufic Chanbour 08 May 2023
Lebanese Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh stands next to gold at the central bank in Beirut, in this handout picture obtained by Reuters on November 24, 2022. Lebanon central bank/Handout via REUTERS

Lebanese Prosecutor Seeks to Question Actress in Salameh Graft Probe

A Lebanese prosecutor said on Thursday she had ordered security forces to bring in for questioning a Lebanese actress for whom central bank chief Riad Salameh was suspected of buying luxury property…

08 December 2022
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and US President Donald Trump at the White House, Washington, on 18 November 2025.
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Saudi Arabia scores ally upgrade in Washington

19 November 2025

Trump elevates Saudi Arabia to 'major non-NATO ally' status, but bigger issues of normalisation with Israel and a binding security treaty need more time. Nonetheless, this is a huge step forward.

Abdullah F. Alrebh
Palestinian novelist Basem Khandakji
Culture & Social Affairs

Basem Khandakji on exile, imprisonment, and purpose

26 November 2025

The Palestinian novelist who won the Arabic Booker Prize in 2023 from behind Israeli prison walls speaks to Al Majalla about his extraordinary life and literary journey

El-Sayed Hussein
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) looks on during a meeting with US Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll in Kyiv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 20 November 2025. AFP
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Trump presents Ukraine with a ‘very tough choice’

24 November 2025

Zelensky said he's being asked to decide between Ukraine losing its dignity or losing a key partner

Sam Skove and John Haltiwanger
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UK chancellor aims to strike a balance with her 2025 budget

27 November 2025

Policymakers' main worry ahead of Rachel Reeves' announcements this week centred on the reaction of the bond markets. So far, they have received a cautious welcome.

Bassam Mahfouz
US political commentator Tucker Carlson speaks during the last day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on 18 July 2024. ANGELA WEISS / AFP
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How Tucker Carlson put Arab Christians on America's map

25 November 2025

Prominent conservative journalists and politicians have broken ranks to call out Israeli crimes against Arab Christians. The effects continue to ripple through Donald Trump's support base.

Kamal Alam

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