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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
Mona and Julia in a still from 'Goodbye Julia'. Mad-Distribution

"Goodbye Julia": Sudan’s social divide poignantly depicted in Cannes prize winner

After nabbing the 2023 Cannes Film Festival's Freedom Prize, Mohamed Kordofani's feature film debut will be Sudan's official submission to the Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film.

Areej Jamal 20 December 2023
Axel Rangel Garcia/Eyal Warshavsky/Majalla

Yair Lapid to Al Majalla: A Palestinian state will be delayed significantly, but the idea not dead

In an exclusive interview with Al Majalla, former Israeli prime minister and now opposition leader Yair Lapid lists the pressing issues he sees for Israel and the obstacles to peace

Ahmed Maher 19 December 2023
US marines have acted against raiders in the Bab al-Mandab strait, where Israel's war on Gaza has intensified a proxy battle between Iran and Israel. It is worrying traders, sailors and insurers. Axel Rangel Garcia

Piracy off Yemeni coast raises global shipping costs

US marines have acted against raiders in the Bab al-Mandab strait, where Israel's war on Gaza has intensified a proxy battle between Iran and Israel. It is worrying traders, sailors and insurers.

Mohamed Sharki 19 December 2023
Axel Rangel Garcia/Majalla

If it’s abnormal in Jerusalem, it’s because ‘we are filled with love’

The Nachloat tour, why is the word 'co-existence' absurd? how can you tell if you are hopeless? And the 'big lie' of a temporary military occupation

Ahmed Maher 18 December 2023
People walk along a street at the entrance of the Burj al-Barajneh Palestinian camp south of Beirut on November 15, 2023, as battles between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip continue. AFP

Lebanon’s displaced feel forgotten while war rages in Gaza

People who have fled the cross-border clashes in Lebanon's south warn that the world is underestimating the extent of fighting while the country is ill-prepared for a breakdown in rules of engagement.

Joudy El-Asmar 18 December 2023

From 1948 to 2023, Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestine continues

Fares Garabet 18 December 2023
The late Emir during his attendance at the twentieth session of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference in Kuwait City in 2014 AFP

Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, 86, dies: The 'Prince of Humility and Amnesty'

A 40-day official mourning period was declared and the Crown Prince, Sheikh Meshal, ascended to the position of the Emir of Kuwait

Al Majalla - London 16 December 2023
Biden and Netanyahu in their meeting in Tel Aviv on Oct 18 AFP

Netanyahu’s use of the Gaza war for political gain is leaving Biden exposed

Global public opinion is against Israel. Its leader is furthering his ambitions to reshape the country while destroying chances for a Palestinian state. The US faces anger for enabling the process. rnrn

Majed Kayali 16 December 2023
Israel's relentless bombardment of Gaza has not only created a nightmare for Palestinians but also for Egypt, which fears a refugee surge due to the lack of safety, food, water and medical care. Lina Jaradat

Egypt weighs its options as Gaza refugee surge becomes real possibility

Israel's relentless bombardment of Gaza has not only created a nightmare for Palestinians but also for Egypt, which fears a refugee surge due to the lack of safety, food, water and medical care

Amr Emam 15 December 2023
Women buy cosmetics in Syria's northeastern city of Hasakeh on June 12, 2018. AFP

How Syria's war forced women to break the glass ceiling

In the aftermath of war, due to the death, disability and displacement of men, many Syrian women have become the sole providers in their households. This has had a profound impact on Syrian society.

Alhasna Adra 15 December 2023
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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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