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The new US Ambassador to Lebanon, Michel Issa Al Majalla
Profiles

Michel Issa: Trump’s trusted ambassador takes on Lebanon’s hardest file

Thuraya Shahin 23 November 2025
People gather outside the municipality building in the southern Lebanese border village of Blida in the aftermath of an Israeli army raid on the village, on 30 October 2025. MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP
Politics

Israel's three options on Hezbollah disarmament

Michael Harari 22 November 2025

A US armoured vehicle on the outskirts of the town of Rmeilan in the northeastern Syrian province of Hasakah, bordering Turkey, on March 27, 2023. AFP

Normalisation with Syria and the emergence of a new Arab security framework

Amid Arab normalisation with Syria and Saudi-Iranian rapprochement, regional stakeholders will be closely watching how the situation unfolds and how regional dynamics evolve

Khaled Hamadeh 18 May 2023
The 17 May Agreement of 1983. Getty

The 17 May Agreement of 1983: A perfect failure

The final agreement explicitly stated that both Lebanon and Israel "recognise their obligation to live in peace with each other," thereby ending the state of war between them

Sami Moubayed 17 May 2023

A group of Palestinian refugees walk along the road from Jerusalem to Lebanon on November 9, 1948. AFP

Palestinian intellectuals determined in their pursuit to accurately chronicle the Nakba

An analysis of the events and currents leading up to, during, and after the Nakba, together with an assessment of the available historical records

Mohamed abi Samra 17 May 2023
A Pro-Kurdish Green Left Party supporter holds a portrait of former leader of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtas, 49, who remains a key political figure despite being in jail since 2016. Reuters

Kurdish nationalists suffer partial setback in elections

Their support prevented Erdogan — for the first time in his electoral history — from winning in the first round. However, this wasn't enough for a decisive win, and now the two candidates are heading

Rustum Mahmud 17 May 2023
With a fully locally made car gearing up for its market debut, a clear industrial policy is paying dividends in what is one of Africa’s most industrially developed nations. Here’s how they did it. Barbara Gibson

Morocco makes a success of its drive into the automotive industry

With a fully locally made car gearing up for its market debut, a clear industrial policy is paying dividends in what is one of Africa's most industrially developed nations. Here's how they did it.

Mohamed Sharki 17 May 2023
Salih Muslim

Salih Muslim welcomes Syria’s rapprochement with the Arab world

In a wide-ranging interview with Al Majalla, one of the key figures in Syria's politics speaks out on diplomacy, the PKK's Abdullah Öcalan and the state of his own alliance with the US

Ibrahim Hamidi 17 May 2023

Continuing support for Erdogan ‘shocks’ West but few in Turkey

The default assumption voiced repeatedly by both Western diplomats and Western journalists in recent months had been that Turks and the West both "want him [Erdogan] out"

Shelly Kittleson 17 May 2023
In this picture taken on April 19, 2023 a young Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, walks beneath flags of Fatah and posters along an alley at the Shatila camp for Palestinian refugees in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

Palestinians in Lebanon: Fortress-camps and multiple identities

A look at the history of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon since the Nakba and the relationship between Lebanese and Palestinians both before and after the camps

Ahmad Al-Hajj Ali 17 May 2023
Two separate military forces, too many civilian groups all serving their own self-interest and ineffective international guidance undermined moves toward democracy. War is the price of that failure. AFP

The war in Sudan is really a battle over spoils

Two separate military forces, too many civilian groups all serving their own self-interest and ineffective international guidance undermined moves toward democracy. War is the price of that failure.

Amgad Fareid Eltayeb 16 May 2023
Israel's separation wall. Getty Images

Some takeaways from this year’s Nakba anniversary

The two-state solution is becoming a distant dream and the Oslo Peace Accords, which launched the peace process in 1993 to establish a Palestinian state, are barely remembered.

Ahmed Maher 15 May 2023
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and US President Donald Trump at the White House, Washington, on 18 November 2025.
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Politics

Saudi Arabia scores ally upgrade in Washington

19 November 2025

Trump elevates Saudi Arabia to 'major non-NATO ally' status, but bigger issues of normalisation with Israel and a binding security treaty need more time. Nonetheless, this is a huge step forward.

Abdullah F. Alrebh
Al Majalla
Business & Economy

From oil to AI: a century of Saudi-US partnership

17 November 2025

The Saudi-US alliance is entering a new phase—one characterised by maturity, equilibrium, and a shared vision attuned to a world increasingly shaped by technology

Omar Harkous
Al Majalla's Editor-in-Chief Ibrahim Hamidi interviews Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani on 13 November 2025. Axel Rangel Garcia
Politics

Asaad Shaibani on how Syria untangled its Russian knot

18 November 2025

In Part 1 of a two-part interview with Al Majalla, Syria's foreign minister explains how the Assad regime fell and how President Ahmed al-Sharaa went from a wanted man to a world leader

Ibrahim Hamidi
Opinion

A new Ukraine peace plan surfaces out of the blue

20 November 2025

Kyiv looks to be under renewed pressure amid reports that Russia and the US have been secretly drafting a 28-point peace plan to put an end to the conflict

Con Coughlin
A still from the film Neon
Culture & Social Affairs

'It Was Just An Accident' takes on the morality of revenge

19 November 2025

Acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi tells the story of a group of ordinary people, all tortured by the same man, grappling with whether or not to take justice into their own hands

Maram Abou Hawach

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