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Butterfly effect: can the Palestine protest movement turn the tide? Lina Jaradat
Politics

Butterfly effect: can the Palestine protest movement turn the tide?

Bryn Haworth 16 September 2025
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
Lina Jaradat

Trump's Iran strategy is irking Israel

What concerns the Israelis is not a possible return to JCPOA-era caps, but how quickly the Trump administration is willing to make concessions

Michael Horowitz 05 May 2025
Protesters gather in Bamako on April 12, 2025, to respond to a call from Malian youth organisations to protest "aggression by Algeria," accusing Mali of shooting down a drone belonging to its army on Malian territory. AFP

The drone that shattered Sahelian diplomacy

The incident is a clear signal that it's no longer business-as-usual in the Sahel. New alliances and shifting dynamics are reshaping the region.

Aman Bezreh 04 May 2025
Rahaf Saad, a Palestinian girl who lost her legs in an Israeli air strike. REUTERS

Missing limbs and broken dreams: Gaza's generation of child amputees

Israel's war on Gaza has created the "largest cohort of child amputees in modern history". On the ground, Al Majalla speaks to affected families.

Houssam Marouf 03 May 2025
A boy checks a destroyed vehicle in Ashrafiyat Sahnaya near Damascus on May 1, 2025. OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP

Syria's sectarian violence is a ticking time bomb

The latest violence against Druze is yet another example of the danger of failing to address sectarian fissures, leaving Syria's fragile transitional process dangerously exposed

Haid Haid 03 May 2025
A Lebanese army soldier guards the Lebanese-Syrian border in an area they recently took from the Islamic State (IS) group in Jurud Ras Baalbek on August 28, 2017. PATRICK BAZ / AFP

The winding history of the Lebanese-Syrian border

Once a united land mass, Lebanon and Syria have struggled to mark their borders since the end of the French mandate in 1946. Now there is a new push to draw a line once and for all.

Sami Moubayed 02 May 2025
SDF leader Mazloum Abdi (C) and Hamid Darbandi (C-R behind), envoy of Iraqi Kurdish politician Masoud Barzani, attend the pan-Kurdish "Unity and Consensus" conference in Qamishli in northeastern Syria on April 26, 2025. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

In U-turn, Syrian Kurds are now demanding federalism

Having agreed on an outline for integration with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa last month, Kurdish-led groups have now issued a raft of contradictory demands, angering both Damascus and Ankara

Omer Onhon 30 April 2025

Al Majalla's Book Watch

A tour of the latest releases from Arabic publishing houses on topics covering fiction, philosophy, science, history, and politics.

Khodr Al Agha 29 April 2025
Al Majalla

Hussein Al-Sheikh: navigating the maze of peace and power

In his new role as Palestinian Authority vice president, he will have to contend with the PA's growing unpopularity, internal divisions, and Netanyahu's vehement opposition to a Palestinian state

Ahmed Maher 29 April 2025
This picture shows a magazine front page at a kiosk in Tehran on April 19, 2025, featuring the Iran-US talks on the Iranian nuclear programme. ATTA KENARE/ AFP

US-Iran talks steam ahead

Both sides are committed to getting a deal, but will outsiders be able to derail them?

Arash Azizi 29 April 2025

Israel wages a war of starvation on Gaza

Fares Garabet 28 April 2025
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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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