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'Make Syria Great Again': how Sunni populism is reshaping post-war Syria
Politics

'Make Syria Great Again': how Sunni populism is reshaping post-war Syria

Malik al-Abdeh 16, May 2025
People celebrate in Damascus' Omeyyad square after US President Donald Trump's decision to lift sanctions in Syria, on May 13, 2025. Abdulaziz KETAZ / AFP
Business & Economy

Syria's long road to economic recovery can finally begin

Joseph Daher 15, May 2025
Since 7 October, Iran has been moving its affiliated forces around Syria, an area that could become a second active front in war with Israel. Al Majalla lists the groups and their key characteristics. Eduardo Ramon Trejo

A complete guide to Iranian-backed militias in Syria

Since 7 October, Iran has been moving its affiliated forces around Syria, an area that could become a second active front in war with Israel. Al Majalla lists the groups and their key characteristics.

Manaf Saad 04, Nov 2023
A young man looks at residents of the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza as they search for the bodies of relatives on November 1. REUTERS

Palestinians in Gaza strategise how to survive and how to die amid Israel's indiscriminate onslaught

Parents are labelling their children to ease identification if they are killed and are splitting families up to minimise the chances of losing all members.

Salem Al Rayyes 04, Nov 2023
From possible hostage exchanges to potential regional escalation, Al Majalla highlights six key areas to monitor as Israel's war on Gaza enters its fourth week. Majalla/Agencies

Six things to watch for as Israel ramps up its war on Gaza

From possible hostage exchanges to potential regional escalation, Al Majalla highlights six key areas to monitor as the war enters its fourth week

Ibrahim Hamidi 03, Nov 2023
 Protesters raise their painted hands as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testify during a Senate hearing for a $105bn aid request to support Israel on October 31, 2023. AFP

Western governments and Gaza's graveyard of children

The West not only maintains a disturbing silence in the face of the systematic Israeli massacres against the Palestinian population in Gaza, but it also actively encourages these atrocities.

Hesham Alghannam 02, Nov 2023
Military personnel stand guard on the day of Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly's visit to the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip on 31 October 2023. Reuters

Egypt parades military might in face of Israeli plan to transfer Gaza's population

Cairo believes that the expulsion of Palestinians in Gaza will be followed by the expulsion of Palestinians from the Israeli-occupied West Bank, along with Palestinian citizens of Israel, to Jordan.

Amr Emam 02, Nov 2023

Gaza death toll surpasses the Srebrenica genocide

Fares Garabet 02, Nov 2023
America should start thinking about dealing with the Iran challenge beyond pinprick US strikes that do nothing but embolden Tehran and its regional axis. Majalla/agencies

Gaza crisis shows Washington badly missing Iran strategy

America should start thinking about dealing with the Iran challenge beyond pinprick US strikes that do nothing but embolden Tehran and its regional axis

Bilal Saab 02, Nov 2023
Unstable geopolitics traps money in defence spending and away from economic development to this day, in a pattern that goes back to 1948. Change is needed, with big challenges ahead. Shutterstock

How decades of conflict with Israel has hindered economic development in the Arab world

Unstable geopolitics traps money in defence spending and away from economic development to this day, in a pattern that goes back to 1948. Change is needed, with big challenges ahead.

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 02, Nov 2023
French-Moroccan author Rachid Benzine.

“The Silence of the Fathers”: Rachid Benzine explores Morocco’s stoic immigrants in France

The French-Moroccan writer explores the painful tendency of first-generation immigrants to go silent, putting an unbridgeable distance between themselves and their children.

Samir Qasimi 01, Nov 2023
Diana Estefana Rubio

Gaza quickly running out of water amid crippling Israeli siege

Clean water is running out in the Gaza Strip after its water plant and public water networks stopped working. Currently, the water production capacity is a mere 5% of its usual daily output.

Al Majalla - London 01, Nov 2023
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (R) watching as US President Donald Trump (C) shakes hands with Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, in Riyadh on May 14, 2025. Bandar AL-JALOUD / Saudi Royal Palace
Politics

Trump's lifting of Syria sanctions solidifies Iran's regional defeat

14 May 2025

It could very well boost Israel's security as well as that of everyone else in the region

James Jeffrey
US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman exchange a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) during a ceremony at the Royal Court in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on May 13, 2025. REUTERS / Brian Snyder
Business & Economy

US, Saudi Arabia enter 'golden era' in defence, AI partnership

14 May 2025

A string of deals ranging from defence to technology were signed in Riyadh worth at least $300bn, including the "largest military sales contract in history"

Maher Chmaytelli
Rahaf Ayyad, a 12-year-old Palestinian who is suffering from malnutrition due to an Israeli-imposed starvation campaign, sits at a school-turned-shelter in al-Rimal in central Gaza City on May 4, 2025. Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP
Politics

Sunken faces: kids in Gaza waste away as Israel blocks aid

15 May 2025

As experts warn of a looming famine due to Israel's blocking of all aid for over ten weeks, Al Majalla speaks to affected families on the ground whose children have become skin and bones

Salem Al Rayyes
Lina Jaradat
Profiles

Ahmed al-Sharaa: the Syrian president with much to prove

14 May 2025

Al-Sharaa met Trump today in Riyadh, after the US president lifted sanctions on Syria on Tuesday, offering it "a chance at greatness". But who is the Syrian leader thrust into the global spotlight?

Bilal Saab
American President Richard Nixon made an official visit to Damascus on June 15, 1974, and was welcomed by Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. Getty
Documents & Memoirs

From Nixon to Clinton: Syrian-American summits since 1945

14 May 2025

Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, will meet Donald Trump in Riyadh today, making him the first Syrian leader to meet with a US president since Clinton's meeting with Hafez al-Assad in 2000

Sami Moubayed

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