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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

The Israel-Palestine 'conflict' through the lens of novelists

Palestinian novelists continue to tell their stories, demanding the attention of a world that has often looked away. Meanwhile, Israeli writers grapple with existential questions and self-doubt.

Samir Qasimi 12 May 2025

Sham Cash: The problem with Syria’s new digital salary app

Without reforms, Sham Cash could become just another tool to consolidate economic and political control into the hands of a select few

Haid Haid 12 May 2025
PKK guerrillas scan for firing positions as they conduct military exercises in the mountains of northern Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region, 18 November 2006. DAVID FURST / AFP

What next after historic PKK decision to disband?

Türkiye hailed the move to dissolve what it deems a terrorist group that claimed over 40,000 lives, but vows the fight would continue should the process collapse

Omer Onhon 11 May 2025
Late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi arrive together at the Arab Summit venue in Rabat on December 23, 1969. AFP

A 50-year-old recording sheds light on Egypt's position toward Israel today

A conversation between a jaded Abdel Nasser and a starry-eyed Gaddafi has gone viral because of its striking relevance to the debates of today. The leaders have changed, but the perspective remains.

Amr Emam 11 May 2025
Brig. Gen. Mohammed al-Jassim and some of his officers in Sheikh al-Hadid in the Afrin district of northern Syria. April 13, 2025. Shelly Kittleson

Much-maligned Syrian commander rebuts massacre claims

Al Majalla travelled to Afrin to speak to a Syrian commander accused of human rights abuses and confiscating property, to hear his side of the story

Shelly Kittleson 10 May 2025
22-year-old art degree graduate Karim Naamani Ibrahim Totanji

Cinematheque Beirut gives Lebanon’s film community a space to thrive

An archive in the capital preserves not just films but memory, offering hope and inspiration for a younger generation of filmmakers

Ibrahim Tutunji 10 May 2025
Lina Jaradat

US-Houthi ceasefire fuels Israeli fears of an Iran deal

The Yemeni militant group is proving to be a stubborn adversary, and Trump doesn't want anything to detract from his visit to the Gulf next week, where he plans to make a 'big' announcement

Michael Horowitz 08 May 2025
People queue with jerry cans to fill up fuel for home electric‬ generators at a petrol station in Libya's capital, Tripoli, on July 4, 2022, amidst a fuel and‬ energy crisis. Mahmud TURKIA / AFP

Libya is at its lowest point since 2020

A kleptocracy with frozen politics and billions missing from the public treasury, the situation couldn't be worse. Trump could apply pressure to help matters, but it's not his top priority.

Ben Fishman 09 May 2025
Nada Kousa wearing the traditional Lebanese headress the 'tantour' Joe Challita

The towering history of the tantour

Part of Lebanon's rich cultural heritage, the tall, conical headdress associated with princesses sparked the curiosity of a global audience when it made a cameo at the Miss Universe pageant

Rosette Fadel 08 May 2025
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani (C) attends a flag raising ceremony of the new Syrian flag at United Nations Headquarters in New York on April 25, 2025. ANGELA WEISS / AFP

Why the US should engage with Syria's new government

The new leadership in Damascus has carefully considered the list of American demands required of it to lift sanctions and has taken adequate steps to address them

Radwan Ziadeh 08 May 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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