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Israa Saada (17 years old) draws on a tent in a displaced persons camp in Gaza. Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Gaza's artists on why creativity is an act of survival

Houssam Marouf 10 November 2025
Motorists drive past a campaign billboard Egyptian Parliamentary elections candidates in the Twin Giza city of the capital Cairo on November 9, 2025, ahead of the country's parliament election starts the first round on 10 November. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP
Politics

Rubber-stamping breeds voter apathy in Egypt polls

Amr Emam 10 November 2025
Sidi Bou Said is a city located in northern Tunisia, about 20 kilometers from the capital.
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Why Tunisia has become a retirement haven for Italians

As Tunisian youth flee their homeland in search of opportunity, thousands of Italian retirees are heading in the opposite direction—drawn by tax breaks, low living costs, and Mediterranean charm

Kawthar Zantour 12 June 2025
Iranian motorists drive past a billboard depicting an Israeli soldier receiving military supplies from the United States at Tehran's central Valiasr square on November 6, 2024. ATTA KENARE / AFP

Preventing the next Middle East disaster

Trump should continue turning the page toward a new Middle East and manage escalation with Iran carefully

Adham Z. Sahloul 12 June 2025
US President Donald Trump sits in the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington, DC, US, June 10, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard

Trump’s choice on Iran

Will he be the president to finally break America's addiction to Middle East interventions?

Emma Ashford 11 June 2025
President of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, Chaim Weizmann, listening intently as a member of the Arab Higher Committee presents a closing argument on October 18, 1947. NEWSPICTURES / AFP

Syria-Zionist talks before and after the creation of Israel

In light of forthcoming Syria-Israel peace talks expected to resume soon after they were suspended in 2008, Al Majalla takes a look at the history of negotiations between the two sides

Sami Moubayed 11 June 2025
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Lifting the veil on Tunisia's child abuse problem

Two recent UNESCO studies show the social and economic impact of a practice considered normal throughout Tunisia: that of parents inflicting physical and psychological violence against their children

Asmahan Al-Sha’abouni 11 June 2025
People carry relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private US-backed aid group that has circumvented the longstanding UN-led system in Gaza on June 8, 2025. Eyad BABA / AFP

How Israel is weaponising aid and armed gangs in Gaza

Israel's forced starvation campaign and the inexplicable routing of aid lorries through crowded areas compound an already dire humanitarian and security crisis. Critics say it's intentional.

Salem Al Rayyes 10 June 2025
An Israeli soldier stands at an observation post in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, overlooking southern Syria, on March 25, 2025. AFP

Israel undermines Syria's security, then blames it for the chaos

It is both incoherent and self-defeating to hold al-Sharaa's government accountable for attacks while simultaneously obstructing its ability to govern and restore order in southern Syria

Haid Haid 09 June 2025
Fares Garabet

If Picasso were to paint Gaza

Fares Garabet 09 June 2025
Troops from the US-led coalition against Islamic State (IS) training SDF fighters in Syria's north-eastern Hasakah province on 7 September 2022. Delil Souleiman/AFP

Exit signs: America’s full withdrawal from Syria seems imminent

A flurry of decisions suggests that the end is nigh for US troops in Syria, and that this may come sooner than expected. In laying the foundations for withdrawal, Donald Trump wants 'out' by Christmas

Caroline Rose 07 June 2025
In October 1936, the French government and the Syrian National Bloc signed the Franco-Syrian Treaty of Alliance, giving independence to Syria. Two months earlier, a Zionist delegation was given short shrift by the Bloc. Getty Images

‘You may leave’: a 1936 meeting between Syrian and Zionist leaders

Minutes of a confidential discussion record an increasingly heated exchange that ended with the Jewish delegation being shown the door.

Sami Moubayed 06 June 2025
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As Sharaa steps into the White House, Syria steps into the US orbit

09 November 2025

In what could be a historic turning point in US-Syria relations, the new government in Damascus will likely join the international coalition against the Islamic State (IS)

Subhi Franjieh
AFP-Reuters-Eduardo Ramon
Politics

Zohran Mamdani becomes first Muslim mayor of New York

04 November 2025

The 34-year-old socialist's win is a seismic development, proving that tax rises for the rich to fund social programmes, and unwavering advocacy for Palestinian rights, are politically viable stances

Tarek Rashed
Ewan White
Politics

How Trump reshaped the world

03 November 2025

Al Majalla examines key developments in the US and across the globe less than a year into Trump's second presidential term

Al Majalla - London
Details of the remains of Palestinians released by Israel are shown on a screen in order to help family members to identify their relatives, at the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on 18 October 2025. OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP
Politics

Closure denied: the agonising search for Gaza's vanished

05 November 2025

Those who are able to bury their dead are among the lucky. For others, not knowing the fate of their missing loved ones or receiving mutilated corpses impossible to identify adds insult to injury.

Salem Al Rayyes
A guest walks in front of a work entitled 'Out of Chaos XIII' by artist Daniel Crews-Chubb at the Frieze London 2025 exhibition in London on 15 October 2025. HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Frieze London 2025: art as algorithm

02 November 2025

Digital art is rewriting the rules of the field, revising the meaning of authenticity, and recalibrating the boundary between virtual and physical. Have we lost something here?

Fai Nasser

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