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US-Iran tensions could mar World Cup kickoff
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US-Iran tensions could mar World Cup kickoff

Fares Garabet 10 June 2026
Netanyahu is frustrating Trump’s Iran plans Al Majalla
Politics

Netanyahu is frustrating Trump’s Iran plans

The Economist 10 June 2026
Andy Potts

The escalating nuclear arms race

Trump's allies and rivals seek new deterrence

Al Majalla - London 04 June 2026

Netanyahu's attempts to derail US-Iran talks

Fares Garabet 04 June 2026
Units of Moqtada Sadr's militia parade with his photo down a main street of the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City June 21, 2014, in Eastern Baghdad. Washington Post

Sadr once again dismantles his armed militia. Why now?

The decision to dismantle the Peace Brigades may herald a new stage in the Iraqi state's trajectory, or it could just be a shrewd recalibration to disorient friend and foe alike

Khairuldeen Al Makhzoomi 03 June 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
Turkish drilling vessel Cagri Bey, which is set to conduct Turkiye's first deep-sea drilling operation docks in the Indian Ocean near the Mogadishu sea port in Mogadishu, Somalia April 10, 2026. Reuters / Feisal Omar

Türkiye’s proposed maritime bill risks reigniting old rivalries

The Exclusive Economic Zone risks reopening disputes over energy, maritime claims, and influence in the Eastern Mediterranean

Amr Emam 01 June 2026
Moroccan scholar Mustapha Rajwan

Mustapha Rajwan: the greatest service to a text is to interpret it

The Moroccan scholar has just won another award for his latest book. He spoke to Al Majalla about plots, characters, and the rhetoric of narrative.

Abeer Younis 01 June 2026
A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter affiliated with Iran's separatist Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), mans a position north of Kirkuk, in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region. Safin Hamid/AFP

Why Iran’s militant Kurds stayed out of the US-Iran war

In March there was talk of armed Kurdish fighters opening a second front in Iran's north-west, but it never happened—for several very good reasons.

Alex Vatanka 31 May 2026
Fares Garabet

Packed for negotiations

Fares Garabet 28 May 2026
Abbas Khider’s novel The Memory Forger Al Majalla

A new book tackles estrangement both at home and in exile

Abbas Khider's novel The Memory Forger exposes the inherited structures of repression left behind by dictatorial regimes, and the hollow Western claims about human fraternity and equality.

Ali Almuqri 28 May 2026
US President Donald Trump with Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House on 10 November 2025. SANA / AFP

Why Syria-US ties cannot rely on leaders’ personal chemistry

Donald Trump and Ahmed al-Sharaa have formed a good relationship which has helped Syria immensely, but Trump's term ends in 2028, so institutional relations are now a priority.

Haid Haid 28 May 2026
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Trump started a war he can’t control

09 June 2026

Netanyahu continues to defy calls from Washington to pump the brakes on Israel's offensive in Lebanon, something Iran has linked to a future peace deal

John Haltiwanger
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Has FIFA oversold the World Cup's economic promise? 

04 June 2026

Days before kick-off, ambitious economic projections for the FIFA 2026 World Cup are colliding with weaker-than-expected demand in the hospitality sector

Abdulfattah Khattab
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SpaceX IPO: an astronomical bet on Musk’s space vision

05 June 2026

The company is bracing for a potentially record-breaking IPO where investors are being asked to buy into more than just a company

Marco Mossad
An Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jew reacts near a part of a missile protruding from the ground, following strikes from Iran, in the central Israeli-occupied West Bank, on 8 June 2026. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Politics

How Israel and Iran came back to the brink

08 June 2026

The US-Israeli military campaign against Iran ended in a fragile ceasefire in early April, but it did not resolve any of the underlying disputes

Michael Horowitz
Sara Ishaq arrives T THE 86th Annual Academy Awards Oscar Week Celebrates Documentaries at AMPAS Samuel Goldwyn Theater on 26 February 2014 in Beverly Hills, California. VALERIE MACON /AFP
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Cannes pick 'The Station': Yemeni sorority at its best

05 June 2026

In an interview with Al Majalla, Oscar-nominated director Sara Ishaq dives into gripping human stories where women hold the line in war-torn Yemen

Leila Amar

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