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Gaza art exhibit reinterprets the meaning of home

From meaning to memory, artists who endured the war have used their work to reflect how their understanding of 'home' has been changed by the devastation

Houssam Marouf 12 October 2026
Argentina's President Javier Milei waves to supporters as he arrives at the ruling party's La Libertad Avanza headquarters following the results of the national midterm legislative election in Buenos Aires on 26 October 2025. LUIS ROBAYO / AFP

Milei puts the Falklands back on the table: why now?

Given his close ties to the UK and Israel, the Argentine president's recent table-thumping over the strategic islands is being read by some as a bid to win voter favour ahead of next year's polls

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra 03 October 2026
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How AI is rewriting the rules of war and peace

As states race to embed algorithms in systems of reconnaissance, targeting, air defence, and military decision-making, a new layer of risk is taking shape

Mohammed Mansour 10 August 2026
US President Donald Trump addresses members of the Navy aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka Naval Base on 28 October 2025. 
AFP

Why the United States keeps losing wars

Washington has a long record of fighting the wrong war for the wrong objective

Stephen M. Walt 08 August 2026
In his novel 'Haha... Cough Cough... I Miraculously Survived', Sudanese novelist Mustafa Khalid Mustafa portrays war as a complex human experience.

Mustafa Khalid's latest novel distills the chaos of war

In his award-winning novel 'Haha... Cough Cough... I Miraculously Survived,' six narrators give different yet intersecting accounts of Sudan's nightmarish conflict

Mansour Al-Souaim 03 June 2026
Al Majalla

Latest drones drive down the cost of warfare

Cheap unmanned aerial vehicles cost only a few thousand dollars to make, but are costing millions to defend against, turning the economics of war on its head

Abdulfattah Khattab 18 May 2026
Lina Jaradat

Hannah Arendt’s banality of evil has a new face in 2026

Throughout history, intellectuals have struggled to come to terms with the arrival of violence and the sudden discarding of values and morals once considered foundational

Asala Lamie 06 April 2026
Grace Russell

Gulf states should steer clear of attritional war traps

The US-Israeli war against Iran aims to draw in Gulf states, but history has shown that entering wars is far easier than exiting them. Prudence is needed now more than ever.

Khairuldeen Al Makhzoomi 02 April 2026
Eoin Ryan

How trauma leaves a lasting imprint on the brain

The relatively new field of epigenetics is revealing how neurological changes as a result of war, suffering, and displacement can be passed down through the generations

Alaa Emara 21 March 2026
US President Donald Trump addresses members of the Navy aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka Naval Base on 28 October 2025. 
AFP

Mission creep: Trump's goal in Iran remains unclear

Without a stable objective, military action risks becoming an open-ended process, rather than a strategy with a clear end goal

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 13 March 2026
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Politics

Al-Jawf: the key to defeating the Houthis

05, Nov 2026

The battle for this strategically important and resource-rich province tests the Yemeni army's ability to tilt the military balance in its favour

Al Majalla - London
Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman Al-Saud, Pakistan's army chief General Syed Asim Munir, and Turkey's intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin in Tehran on 26 October 2026. IRANIAN PRESIDENCY / AFP
Politics

Pakistan’s balancing act in a fragmenting world

07, Nov 2026

Staying friends with the Turks, Chinese, Russians, Americans, Europeans, Iranians and Saudis simultaneously is a big ask for Islamabad's diplomats, but somehow they are managing it

Kaswar Klasra
Politics

Can the Democrats prevent a new round of war with Iran?

05, Nov 2026

Despite the war's unpopularity, Trump seems determined to press on until he can claim a decisive victory, whether by diplomacy, force, or a combination of the two

Aqeel Abbas
Eduardo Ramon
Profiles

Abdul El-Sayed: the progressive Michigander who beat the pro-Israel lobby

07, Aug 2026

The Egyptian-American epidemiologist became the first Muslim senator in US history, despite $70mn spent to defeat him in the Democratic primary

Tarek Rashed
French author Philippe Djianada looks out from a window at the Drouant restaurant in Paris, following his win of the French Goncourt literary prize for his novel "The Unknown Woman of Quai de Javel," on 3 November 2026. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
Culture & Social Affairs

A novel about a murder in Paris wins the 2026 Goncourt

06, Nov 2026

French novelist Philippe Jaenada's novel 'The Unknown Woman of Quai de Javel' wins big, while the Prix Renaudot goes to François-Henri Désérable for his novel about an unlikely wine expert

Najeeb Mubarak

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