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Assessing the options for bypassing the Hormuz Strait Al Majalla
Business & Economy

Assessing the options for bypassing the Hormuz Strait

Alice Gower 20 April 2026
Hormuz games: Trump's blockade on Iran's blockade
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Hormuz games: Trump's blockade on Iran's blockade

Fares Garabet 20 April 2026
Al Majalla

Bunker-busting bombs could also be targeting Hezbollah cash reserves

Israel is not only targeting Hezbollah leaders and weapons but also its finances, those who run them, and access to foreign currency, piling pressure on its supporters in Lebanon's cash-based economy

Toufic Chanbour 05 October 2024
A US-built Egyptian Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft is displayed during the first Egypt International Airshow at Alamein International Airport in Alamein in northern Egypt on September 4, 2024. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP

Egypt arms shipments to Somalia part of a wider picture

Tension in the Horn of Africa is not new, but the rivalry between Cairo and Addis Ababa has escalated, as Ethiopia forges ahead with projects that threaten Egypt's national security

Amr Emam 04 October 2024

Israel takes hits after invading Lebanon

Fares Garabet 03 October 2024

The Beirut centre that helped the PLO understand Zionism

US academic Jonathan Gribetz asks why Palestinian nationalists in Lebanon set up a research centre on Zionism, why it was important, what fate had in store for it, and what lessons can be drawn

Emad al-Ahmad 03 October 2024
Head of the Executive Council of Hezbollah, Hashem Safieddine on August 13, 2017. AFP

Hashem Safieddine: The drum-beating cleric pegged as Nasrallah's successor

Israel claims to have targeted the man who many have described as 'Lebanon's Yahya Sinwar'

Shadi Alaa Aldin 03 October 2024
People stand on top of the remains of an Iranian missile in the Negev desert near Arad on October 2, 2024, in the aftermath of an Iranian missile attack on Israel. Menahem KAHANA / AFP

Can the US still prevent an all-out Middle East war? 

As Israel plans its response to Iran, Biden is attempting a diplomatic Hail Mary

Michael Hirsh 03 October 2024
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan (L) gives a joint press conference with his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty (R) at Tahrir Palace in the centre of Cairo on September 10, 2024. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP

An initial $5bn from Riyadh bolsters Saudi-Egyptian relations

New investments from the sovereign wealth fund and bilateral trade of $33bn means these two pivotal Arab states can continue enjoying mutually beneficial ties

Marcelle Nasr 02 October 2024
Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets after Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, October 1, 2024 REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Iran missile salvo: Has Israel bitten off more than it can chew?

Just after Israel invaded Lebanon, Hezbollah fired missiles at the Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv. Hours later, Iran followed with over 200 missiles. Now, the region waits for Israel's next move.

Con Coughlin 01 October 2024
Mourners march with a symbolic coffin during a memorial service for Hassan Nasrallah who was killed in an Israeli air strike in Beirut days earlier, in Baghdad's Sadr City on September 29, 2024. AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP

Iraqi militias open a cautious front to help Hezbollah

On Monday, three rockets were fired at the Victoria military base in Baghdad hosting US troops. A day earlier, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq claimed a drone attack on the Israeli port city of Eilat.

Salam Zaidan 01 October 2024
Women use their mobile phones as ambulances carrying the bodies of three Palestinian leaders who were killed in an Israeli strike in Beirut's Kola district on September 30, 2024. REUTERS/Omar Ibrahim

Could Israel cut off Lebanon's internet and telecoms?

After Israel avoided prevention measures and sent tens of thousands of messages to Lebanese citizens, fears have grown over the security of a key part of the country's infrastructure

Abdulfattah Khattab 01 October 2024
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The tiny waterway that put the global economy into a chokehold

18 April 2026

Disruption in the Hormuz can have major implications for global trade, but it also creates opportunities for smaller nations like Iran to become global political players

Steve Hewitt
Pete Reynolds
Politics

Glimpses of Bush's Iraq debacle appear in Trump's Iran war

15 April 2026

The Iraq war was viewed as disastrous in retrospect, while the Iran war was unpopular from the get-go. Al Majalla highlights the similarities and differences between the two.

Robert Ford
Al Majalla
Business & Economy

The US plan to turn Syria into an oil transit hub

16 April 2026

Pipelines have a chequered history in the Middle East, but the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led US Tom Barrack to conclude that a new route through Syria could solve some problems.

Al Majalla - London
An Iranian woman flashes the V-sign as she takes part in a rally to pay tribute to women killed during war, in Tehran on 17 April 2026. AFP
Politics

Has Iran's ideology actually hardened?

16 April 2026

The change in tone and presentation of policy isn't a fundamental redirection, but rather the consolidation of a system under pressure

Alex Vatanka
Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed holds two awards during the opening ceremony of the Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, late on 14 September 2010. AMR AHMAD / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Daoud Abdel Sayed and the cinema of quiet rebellion

16 April 2026

Throughout his career, the renowned Egyptian film director challenged authority, rejected easy answers, and remained rooted in lived experience

Hazem Massoud

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