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Screens show the number of votes as members of the United Nations General Assembly vote on the Palestinian issue and the implementation of the two-state solution, at the UN headquarters in New York on September 12, 2025. Reuters
Politics

The world inches towards Palestine recognition. Too little, too late?

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 15 September 2025
Egyptians cut back on expenses, but not on their coffee Axel Rangel Garcia
Business & Economy

Egyptians cut back on expenses, but not on their coffee

Marcelle Nasr 15 September 2025
At least 50 affected countries, a 40% decline in Suez Canal revenues, and German car factories paused production. Al Majalla lays out the economic impact of Red Sea disruptions in numbers. Majalla

Houthi attacks in Red Sea deal heavy blow to global trade

At least 50 affected countries, a 40% decline in Suez Canal revenues, and German car factories pause production. Al Majalla lays out the economic impact of Red Sea disruptions in numbers.

Mohamed Sharki 17 January 2024
In a wide-ranging interview with Al Majalla, former American diplomat Dennis Ross shares his thoughts on how to exit the Gaza war Axel Rangel Garcia/Majalla

Dennis Ross: Hezbollah-type model in Gaza is a recipe for disaster, West Bank on brink of explosion

In a wide-ranging interview with Al Majalla, the former American diplomat shares his thoughts on how to exit the Gaza war

Ahmed Maher 17 January 2024
Diana Estefanía Rubio

Israeli bombing of Gaza emitted 281,000 metric tonnes of carbon

Carbon emissions generated during the first two months of the Gaza war exceeded the annual carbon footprint of more than 20 of the world's most climate-vulnerable nations

Al Majalla - London 16 January 2024
In this file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) attends a parliament session to vote on the national budget on May 23, 2023, at the parliament in Jerusalem. AFP

Gaza war exacting huge price on Israel

Israeli bombs have blown huge holes not just in the Gaza Strip but in Israel's budget too. Ministers are now hurrying to adjust their balance sheets and projections.

Abdel-Rahman Ayas 16 January 2024
After nine Turkish soldiers were killed by the PKK in Iraq, there is a sombre and angry mood in Ankara. There are major political implications into local elections and over relations with the US. Shutterstock

PKK attacks on Turkey have major implications at home and abroad

After nine Turkish soldiers were killed by the PKK in Iraq, there is a sombre and angry mood in Ankara. There are major political implications into local elections and over relations with the US.

Omer Onhon 16 January 2024
Palestinians mourn the death of loved ones following Israeli bombardment in the southern Gaza Strip on December 5, 2023, outside a hospital in Khan Younis. AFP

No regional war over Gaza but everyone still loses

The Gaza war probably will not cause a huge regional conflagration but instead will weaken all the major actors.

Robert Ford 16 January 2024

Houthis face Western might over Red Sea attacks

Fares Garabet 15 January 2024
Image of the first and last page of the draft Memorandum of Strategic Understanding signed by Al-Assad and Raisi Supplied

Syria and Iran strengthen already-close ties through new agreement

Al Majalla translates official Iranian documents leaked by an opposition hacker group detailing a host of agreements between Damascus and Tehran.

Al Majalla 15 January 2024
From peasant talk and Euphrates clay to late-night cigar smoking in Rome, and later-life doctor’s appointments, Al Majalla explores Iraqi artist Jaber Alwan's life and works Irene Blasco

Iraqi painter Jaber Alwan: A life as rich and vibrant as his art

From peasant talk and Euphrates clay to late-night cigar smoking in Rome, and later-life doctor's appointments, Al Majalla explores his life and works

Ibrahim Haj Abdi 14 January 2024
A Palestinian man reacts as he holds the remains of his mother wrapped in a blanket amid the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli strike on the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on November 2, 2023. AFP

Israel's war on Gaza: 100 days of death and destruction

According to UNOCHA, Israel has killed 23,074 Palestinians including 10,000 children in Gaza, between 7 October 23 and 7 January 24, an average of 250.8 per day

Elie Kossaifi 14 January 2024
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Qatar's Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (C) reviews a military honour guard with Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) during a welcoming ceremony in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on January 31, 2019. GREG BAKER / AFP
Politics

Pivot to China? Gulf states mull options after Doha strike

12 September 2025

Israel's attack in Qatar erodes Gulf states' trust in the US and serves as a stark reminder that they cannot depend on American security guarantees

Xiaotong Yang
A Hezbollah flag is placed in front of the shrine of Shamoun al-Safa, built within a castle in the village of Shamaa in southern Lebanon's Tyre governorate, on January 31, 2025, that was heavily damaged by Israeli bombing. Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP
Business & Economy

Trump Economic Zone plan raises eyebrows in Lebanon

11 September 2025

Many Lebanese see the project as a demographic one with economic dressings aimed at expelling the country's southern population from their lands

Souraya Chahine
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa Al Majalla
Politics

From Idlib to New York: Sharaa’s winding road the UN

12 September 2025

From the plains of Idlib to the presidential palace in Damascus and now the UN headquarters in Manhattan, Al Majalla traces the Syrian president's journey to get to this historic moment

Ibrahim Hamidi
Opinion

'The Voice of Hind Rajab' shows cries for justice are only getting louder

07 September 2025

A 24-minute standing ovation at the film premiere was more than a symbolic gesture of justice for Israel's murder of little Hind, but a heartfelt cry of real anguish over the ongoing genocide in Gaza

Samer Abou Hawwach
Egyptian writer May Telmissany poses during a portrait session held on April 15, 2014, in Paris, France. Ulf Andersen/Getty
Culture & Social Affairs

May Telmissany: writing is an act of resistance against the ugliness of the world

14 September 2025

The acclaimed Egyptian writer talks love, betrayal, autobiography, and the lack of Arab literary identity

El-Sayed Hussein

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