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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
With one of its best-known and most well-connected businessmen Marouane Mabrouk in prison after President Saied toughed up his crackdown on corruption, a nation is waiting to see what happens next. Majalla

Arrest of business tycoon Marouane Mabrouk sends shockwaves across Tunisia

With one of its best-known and most well-connected businessmen in prison after President Saied toughed up his crackdown on corruption, Tunisia is waiting to see what happens next

Kawthar Zantour 15 December 2023

The grim reality of Gaza's day after

Fares Garabet 14 December 2023
Lebanese Sunnis are viewed by many as the glue that unites the country’s diverse tapestry of sects. However, political turmoil has limited their ability to exercise their traditional influence. Sara Gironi Carnevale

What future lies ahead for Lebanon's Sunnis?

Lebanese Sunnis are viewed by many as the glue that unites the country's diverse tapestry of sects. However, political turmoil has limited their ability to exercise their traditional influence.

Al Majalla - London 13 December 2023
Al Majalla highlights milestones of Sunni leadership since the establishment of the Greater Lebanon State in 1920. Majalla

Timeline: The rise and fall of Sunni influence in Lebanon

Al Majalla highlights milestones of Sunni leadership since the establishment of the Greater Lebanon State in 1920.

Al Majalla - London 13 December 2023
The modern politics that left a major group under-represented during a national crisis were shaped by complex historical forces. Al Majalla explores the plight of Lebanon's Sunni Muslims. Andrei Cojocaru

How Lebanon's Sunnis became ‘orphans' of the republic

The modern politics that left a major group under-represented during a national crisis were shaped by complex historical forces. Al Majalla explores the plight of Lebanon's Sunni Muslims.

Houssam Itani 13 December 2023
Militaries worldwide will be watching closely and learning lessons from Habsora's application. Only time will tell what those lessons will be. Axel Rangel Garcia

A look at Israel's AI-generated 'mass assassination factory' in Gaza

Militaries worldwide will be watching closely and learning lessons from Habsora's application. Only time will tell what those lessons will be.

Charles Lister 13 December 2023
Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef's interview with Piers Morgan created shockwaves on social media, garnering over 21 million views. Screengrab

How satire is helping expose Israeli propaganda and challenge media bias against Palestinians

Satire has become an effective weapon against Israeli propaganda. Al Majalla explores how social media — free from the shackles of traditional media — has helped to shift Western public opinion.

Samer Zouraiq 13 December 2023
A protestor holds a sign depicting a Palestinian flag and reading "Spain in solidarity with Palestine" during a demonstration called for the Human Rights to Peace, in Madrid, on December 10, 2023. AFP

Navigating Western responses to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: The need for a new approach

Israel's disproportionate assault on Gaza in response to attacks from Hamas has reinforced Arab, Islamic – and increasingly – rising global commitment to ending Palestinian suffering.

Bader Mousa Al-Saif 12 December 2023
Majalla

US deterrence against Iran damaged but not dead

Unless the United States decides to topple the regime in Tehran — which it won't do — the Iran problem is not one to be solved but managed.

Bilal Saab 11 December 2023
Best known to the Arab world for a novel translated from French, Algerian visionary playwright Kateb Yacine (seen here in 1961) thought that true poetry came from chaos. Getty

Remembering Algerian novelist Kateb Yacine: An eternal captive to his idea of life

Best known to the Arab world for a novel translated from French, this Algerian visionary playwright thought that true poetry came from chaos

Samir Qasimi 11 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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