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.

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.

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.

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

Conflict and crisis reveal the tip of the iceberg the world's vulnerable face in accessing their right to health

The visionary painter died 50 years ago. He was just 35 and had only put his work on show once. Cairo is displaying his influential and unique pieces, which helped modernize Egyptian and Arabic art.

Besides the war in Ukraine, Gaza has been a defining foreign policy challenge for the Biden administration and larger US interests in the Middle East

As pressure mounts in the US to "do more" to deter attacks allegedly backed by Iran, Iraqi armed factions seem ever more divided.

Israel has allocated $8bn for the war, which is a loss to its economy, while the war drains an additional $260mn per day from the Israeli economy.