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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
Israeli army tanks are deployed in the Upper Galilee region of northern Israel near the border with Lebanon on September 30, 2024. Menahem KAHANA / AFP

Can Israel kill its way to victory over Hezbollah?

The group has been degraded but can still inflict serious harm, especially as Israel launched its "limited" ground invasion overnight

Daniel Byman 01 October 2024
Diana Estefanía Rubio

Lebanon death toll approaches 2,000 amid Israel offensive

Since 8 October 2023, Hezbollah launched a supportive front to help Hamas in Gaza. Since then, the group and Israel have been engaged in somewhat of a limited and controlled exchange of fire within…

Al Majalla - London 01 October 2024
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Al Majalla's Book Watch

Our bi-monthly look at the Arab world's publishing scene includes the reckless death of a literary great, a sharp analysis of populism, and pre-Platonic thought

Khodr Al Agha 30 September 2024
Iran-backed militias carefully weigh their next moves after Israel's stunning success against Hezbollah. For now, they may opt for self-preservation as they go through their most vulnerable time. Ewan White

Will Iran-backed militias cower from Israel's military might?

Iran-backed militias carefully weigh their next moves after Israel's stunning success against Hezbollah. For now, they may opt for self-preservation as they go through their most vulnerable time.

Lina Khatib 30 September 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin (2nd-R) and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad (2nd-L) preside over a military parade in the Russian air base in Hmeimim in the northwestern Syrian province of Latakia. December 11, 2017. AFP

Nine years after Russian intervention, where does Syria stand?

Russia's intervention on 30 September 2015 won it a warm water port on the Mediterranean, but the political solution that was meant to follow the fighting has not yet materialised

Samer Elias 30 September 2024

Iran hesitates to help its allies under Israeli fire

Fares Garabet 30 September 2024
An image of the late leader of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah with a black stripe for mourning is displayed on a television set airing a broadcast from the private Lebanese station NBN in Beirut on September 28, 2024.

How the myth of Hezbollah's invincibility died in the span of a week

Lebanese wake up to a new reality after Hassan Nasrallah's assassination. What happens next could have serious ramifications for Lebanon, Israel and the entire region.

Michael Horowitz 29 September 2024
A dominant figure in Lebanon since 1992, when he became secretary-general of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah can be credited with reshaping the playing field of Lebanese politics for over three decades Robert Carter

Nasrallah assassination: An end of an era

A dominant figure in Lebanon since 1992 when he became secretary-general of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah can be credited with reshaping the playing field of Lebanese politics for over three decades

Sami Moubayed 28 September 2024
Smoke billows following Israeli strikes over Beirut's southern suburbs throughout the night of September 27 and early morning of September 28, as seen from Sin El Fil, Lebanon. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Israel targets Hezbollah’s top leader in Beirut

The strike came just an hour after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations

Anusha Rathi 28 September 2024
A man inspects the rubble of a house destroyed in Israeli bombardment in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila. Hassan FNEICH / AFP

War has hurt Israel's economy but devastated Lebanon's

Both countries have suffered massive economic blows. But Lebanon's economy was already on its knees before the war, making recovery and reconstruction all the more difficult.

Salwa Baalbaki 27 September 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
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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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