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Israel's Olive War aims to uproot more than just trees Lina Jaradat
Politics

Israel's Olive War aims to uproot more than just trees

Mohammed Najib 14 November 2025
This handout photograph released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on 10 November 2025, shows US President Donald Trump (L) shaking hands with Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House in Washington DC. SANA / AFP
Politics

Syria-US rapprochement sees cooperation surge

Charles Lister 13 November 2025
Lina Jaradat

Braving the bombs: Why Lebanon’s national flag carrier keeps flying

Middle East Airlines (MEA) flights to and from Beirut are ongoing despite Israel's relentless air strikes. Amidst huge losses, MEA bosses know how important it is to stay airborne.

Salwa Baalbaki 10 November 2024
Eduardo Ramon

Remembering my uncle, Yasser Arafat

Writing on the 20th anniversary of the PLO leader's death, former PNA foreign minister Nasser Al-Kidwa reflects on his uncle's life and legacy

Nasser al-Kidwa 10 November 2024
Rateb Al-Shallah speaks with President Carter in the presence of Hajj Badr al-Din.

The life and legacy of Syrian businessman Rateb Shallah

The story of Shallah, who recently passed away at 92, and that of his illustrious family tell plenty about the history of Damascus and its business community over the past 100 years

Sami Moubayed 09 November 2024
Nesma Moharam

How Iran sees the 'New Middle East'

Iran's vision entails a region where US influence is minimised and Israel is isolated

Hamidreza Azizi 09 November 2024
Al Majalla

Novel on Algeria's Black Decade nabs France’s Goncourt Prize

Kamel Daoud's 'Houris' weaves together the suffering of the body with the suffering of a society sworn to silence over a trauma that has yet to heal

Samir Qasimi 08 November 2024
Fighters lift flags of Iraq and paramilitary groups, including al-Nujaba and Kataib Hezbollah, during a funeral in Baghdad for five militants killed a day earlier in a US strike in northern Iraq, on December 4, 2023. AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP

Iraq could pay the price for Iran's next move against Israel

As the flames of conflict spread, Iraqis—much like the Palestinians and Lebanese before them—could find themselves ensnared in a struggle they neither instigated nor can control

Haid Haid 08 November 2024
Eduardo Ramon

What will Trump's foreign policy really look like?

Trump's potential team looks to be split between figures like Vance, wanting to reduce US interventions abroad, and hawks like Pompeo, pushing for foreign confrontations

Robert Ford 08 November 2024
Ottoman artillery at Hareira in 1917 to defend against the British advance into southern Palestine. Shutterstock

This day in history: Ottoman-ruled Gaza falls to the British

Gaza has long been a theatre of military confrontation, witnessing four major battles before Israel finally occupied it in the 1967 war

Sami Moubayed 07 November 2024
Ewan White

The eventuality of US-Iran negotiations

No matter who sits in the White House in 2025, Washington and Tehran will have to sit down and talk at some point

Arash Azizi 06 November 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin and participants in the outreach/BRICS Plus format meeting attend a family photo during the BRICS summit in Kazan on October 24, 2024. MAXIM SHIPENKOV / AFP

BRICS 2024: New members and old challenges

While the Kazan Summit can claim some successes, diverging agendas make the search for the soul of the Global South more challenging

Neil Quilliam and Alice Gower 05 November 2024
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Politics

Israel's Olive War aims to uproot more than just trees

09 November 2025

The olive tree is no longer just a source of sustenance for West Bank Palestinians, but a silent witness to their profound struggle between permanence and erasure

Mohammed Najib
This handout photograph released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on 10 November 2025, shows US President Donald Trump (L) shaking hands with Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House in Washington DC. SANA / AFP
Politics

Syria-US rapprochement sees cooperation surge

13 November 2025

Since Trump began lifting sanctions in May, no time has been wasted. US investment delegations have been flocking to Damascus, and security cooperation has already started.

Charles Lister
Al Majalla
Politics

Can Trump make peace or just ceasefires?

12 November 2025

The US president hasn't invested enough political capital in the painstaking details of peacemaking. Instead, he has focused on short-term truces he can boast about in his quest for a Nobel prize.

Christopher Phillips
Sara Padovan
Politics

Is support for Israel becoming toxic at the ballot box? 

11 November 2025

As Americans rethink the moral—and strategic—calculus of US support for Israel, politicians are scrambling to keep pace

Alfred J. Naddaff
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

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