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New book tackles the fading art of Koranic recitation
Culture & Social Affairs

New book tackles the fading art of Koranic recitation

Fadi El-Abdallah 23 April 2026
US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, US Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa, and Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter at the State Department in Washington, DC, on 14 April 2026. Oliver Contreras / AFP
Politics

Round 2: Lebanon-Israel talks inch forward

David Schenker 23 April 2026

Biden struggles to tame Netanyahu

Fares Garabet 11 April 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune at the presidential palace in Algiers during Macron's three-day visit in August 2022. AFP

Rendezvous with history? Algeria and France inch forward

The pain of the past cannot be forgotten, and a formal French apology may yet transpire, as the two countries' leaders look set to meet to discuss matters of trade, energy security, and nuclear tests.

Rabie Khreis 10 April 2024
US President Joe Biden (L) with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on 18 October 2023. Reuters

Gaza tests the boundaries of America's 'special' relationship with Israel

Six months of war have led to huge swings in public opinion and growing criticism of Israel from US leaders, which would have been unthinkable in the past. Have things changed?

Aqeel Abbas 10 April 2024
Diana Estefanía Rubio

Israel's war compounds Gaza's systematic de-development

Before the outbreak of the latest Israeli military operation in Gaza in October 2023, Gaza was already one of the most densely populated spaces in the world.Nearly half the workforce was unemployed,…

Al Majalla - London 09 April 2024
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani (R) speaks at a meeting with top-ranking officials of the US-led coalition as part of the first round of talks on the future of US troops in the country, in Baghdad on January 27, 2024. AFP

Iraq vies for the attention of a distracted Washington

Biden is hosting Iraqi PM Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani in Washington next week. While the two leaders have a host of festering issues to iron out, Iraq seems to be the least of US concerns at the moment.

Robert Ford 09 April 2024
An end to the conflict is an absolute priority and a basic demand, but even if it were to come now, and the most optimistic recovery scenario played out, Gaza faces a bleak economic future Ewan White

Restoring Gaza to its pre-war state may take 70 years

An end to the conflict is an absolute priority and a basic demand, but even if it were to come now, and the most optimistic recovery scenario played out, Gaza faces a bleak economic future

Khaled Kassar 09 April 2024
Flag draped coffins of slain Palestinians killed in Israeli raid are taken through the streets of Beirut, Lebanon on April 12, 1973, during the funeral procession. AP

This day in history: Israel takes out key PLO leaders in Beirut

51 years ago, an elite unit of the Israeli army assassinated Muhammad Youssef al-Najjar, Kamal Adwan and Kamal Nasser in a dramatic operation in the upscale Beirut neighbourhood of Verdun

Sami Moubayed 09 April 2024
Pep Boatella/Majalla

How should a US-Saudi defence pact look?

Whenever Israel's devastating war in Gaza concludes or drastically subsides, Saudi Arabia will be eager to restart the US-led process of signing a strategic bilateral defence pact

Bilal Saab 08 April 2024
Palestinian philosopher Ahmed Nassim Barqawi

Palestinian philosopher Ahmed Barqawi on thought, the ego, and Zionism

The Palestinian thinker speaks to Al Majalla about his books, the complexities of the Arab world, thought itself, defining the nature of evil, and why 'racist Zionism' will not last.

Hoda Salim Al-Muhithawi 08 April 2024

Six months of Israel's war on Gaza

Fares Garabet 08 April 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
Al Majalla
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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