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Motorists drive past a billboard in Tehran depicting Trump drowning in the Strait of Hormuz on 24 August 2026. AFP
Politics

The US is learning the wrong lessons in Iran

Bret Devereaux 29 August 2026
The artist who used land to capture Palestinian identity Axel Rangel Garcia
Culture & Social Affairs

The artist who used land to capture Palestinian identity

Farouk Yousif 28 August 2026
Eduardo Ramon

The Arden Shakespeare and the reinvention of the canon

The fourth Arden series continues a tradition that has repeatedly transformed the study of Shakespeare. Yet for Arabic readers, these revolutions still arrive only as distant echoes

Al Majalla - London 18 July 2026
AI has changed things by introducing concentrated, volatile, large-scale loads that carry big implications for the electricity grid. Eduardo Ramon

Why AI is forcing a reassessment of the electricity sector

Traditional large electricity customers' requirements have tended to match utilities' capacities, but the enormous data centres on which the AI era is being built are redefining demand

Jessica Obeid 18 July 2026
The rivalry between Ankara and Tel Aviv could define the new Middle East Pete Reynolds

Turkish-Israeli rivalry in the new Middle East

Two competing power centres are now vying for supremacy in the region, in a fight that involves the White House

Al Majalla - London 17 July 2026
Workers are seen through a pipe at a construction site on the extension of Russia's TurkStream gas pipeline. Reuters

Türkiye and Israel go head-to-head in Europe’s new energy race

Ankara wants to be a regional energy hub, while Israel seeks deeper integration into Europe's emerging energy system. Will Europe choose or the other, or a combination, to meet its energy needs?

Abdulfattah Khattab 17 July 2026
Relations between Ankara and Tel Aviv were once good. Today, they are fractured. Eduardo Ramon

Why Israel-Türkiye relations have now hit rock bottom

Tel Aviv and Ankara were once so friendly that they shared intelligence and cooperated militarily. Today, they accuse each other of genocide and limit trade. Where next for these two regional rivals?

Michael Horowitz 17 July 2026
An emerging regional rivalry is playing out through a series of pipelines and trade routes. Al Majalla

Middle East chessboard being played between Türkiye and Israel

Overlapping interests in energy and geopolitics have led to competing maritime claims, disputes over trade corridors, and fights over fighter jets and Syria. It all adds up to a new strategic rivalry

Al Majalla - London 17 July 2026
Israel and Türkiye have competing interests in Syria, Palestine, the Gulf, Washington, and the global defence industry. They also have very different visions for the Middle East Pete Reynolds

Turkish-Israeli rivalry could determine the new Middle East

Türkiye calls Israel a 'terrorist state', Israel calls Türkiye 'the new Iran'. They have competing interests in Syria, Palestine, the Gulf, Washington, and arms exports. Will they come to blows?

Al Majalla - London 17 July 2026

How Egypt lost two of its most dynamic communities

A new book explores how Egypt's Jewish and Greek communities helped build the country's modern economy—and why they ultimately disappeared

Mohamed Magdy 16 July 2026
Egypt's new 'Octagon' complex outside Cairo will serve as its 'war brain'. AFP

Egypt’s new military brain tucked away deep in the sand

Army and intelligence units will decamp to the Octagon, a complex 65km outside Cairo, to fight the wars and manage the crises of the future

Amr Emam 16 July 2026
Shipping traffic through the Suez Canal is gradually increasing, almost three years after the Houthi militia in Yemen began targeting merchant vessels. Reuters

Traffic slowly returns to Egypt’s Suez Canal despite Houthi threat

Some big shipping companies are starting to reroute through the iconic waterway once again, with more problems currently in the Strait of Hormuz and the Arabian Gulf than in the Red Sea

Sharif Mohammad 14 July 2026
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CIA Director John Ratcliffe at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on 15 August 2025, in Anchorage, Alaska, where Donald Trump met with Vladimir Putin for peace talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. ANDREW HARNIK / AFP
Politics

Why Ratcliffe's secret visit to Moscow is concerning

27 August 2026

The American CIA director's visit looks to be a desperate attempt by the Trump administration to avert a doomsday scenario in which NATO is pulled into a larger war with Russia

Con Coughlin
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Chinese President Xi Jinping during their meeting in Beijing, China, on 2 September 2025. Reuters
Business & Economy

Will US sanctions on Iran bite? It may depend on China

26 August 2026

Beijing says it will not abide by the new 'Economic D-Day' measures and warns the US of retaliation if they hurt their oil trade with Tehran

Rana Freifer
Nigel Buchanan
Politics

Gadi Eisenkot: Israel’s next leader?

27 August 2026

Al Majalla looks at the former army general's career, political positions, possible paths to victory, and what a change in leadership could mean for Israel and the region after three years of war

Al Majalla - London
Sara Padovan
Science & Technology

When myth replaces medicine

25 August 2026

As social media transforms how people seek medical advice, figures such as Barbara O'Neill offer something conventional medicine rarely can: absolute certainty

Mohammed Mansour
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (C), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif posing after signing the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on 7 August, 2026. PAKISTAN PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE / AFP
Politics

Networked Middle East security

22 August 2026

The Iran war exposed the risks of being too closely tied to US military posture, which is why some Gulf states are repositioning themselves not merely as consumers of security but as architects of it

Bilal Saab

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