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Syria's foreign minister, Asaad al-Shaibani, meets with Taliban foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, on the sidelines of an OIC meeting in Istanbul on 21 June 2025. AFP
Politics

Can the Taliban implement the 'Syrian model'?

Kamal Alam 14 August 2026
Trump and Mojtaba: the Hormuz negotiations Gregori Saavedra
Politics

Trump and Mojtaba: the Hormuz negotiations

Al Majalla - London 13 August 2026
This aerial photograph shows an inundated area in Syria's Deir ez-Zor province on 31 May 2026, following recent flooding as water levels from the Euphrates River rise. BAKR ALKASEM / AFP

Preventing the next Euphrates flood

Last month's floods exposed gaps in coordination and governance. Addressing them now will determine whether the next rise in the river becomes a managed risk or another costly emergency.

Haid Haid 21 June 2026

Iran uses its leverage against the US

Fares Garabet 21 June 2026
A picture taken on 24 January 2014 shows covers of the comic series Tintin translated into several languages at the Casterman publisher headquarters in Brussels.  AFP

From Tintin to Tetouan: the rise of Moroccan comics

Long dismissed as kids' entertainment and overshadowed by literary traditions, comics have evolved into a vibrant medium of artistic expression, social critique, and cultural memory

Najeeb Mubarak 21 June 2026
Iran's conservative Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf addresses supporters in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on June 26, 2024, during his election campaign ahead of a presidential vote to replace the late president. ATTA KENARE / AFP

The war inside Iran's right

The war exposed how divided Iran's right has always been and handed each faction a new weapon to wield against the other

Alex Vatanka 19 June 2026
Al Majalla

Trump’s Iran truce leaves Israel out

Washington reportedly refused to show Israel a draft of the MOU when asked. Therefore, without its buy-in, Israel is not obliged to adhere to the deal.

Michael Horowitz 19 June 2026
Mark Smith

Trump’s deal: repercussions in the Gulf, Iran, and Israel

The MOU reached by the two warring nations forces a rethink of the Middle East's political, security, and economic landscape

Al Majalla - London 18 June 2026
Al Majalla

How Pakistan quietly brokered the historic US-Iran deal

Islamabad kept both sides talking even as missiles were being launched. That tenacity looks to have paid dividends in a way that could yet reshape the Middle East's power dynamics.

Kaswar Klasra 18 June 2026

US-Iran deal sealed. Strait of Hormuz now open.

Al Majalla - London 18 June 2026
Türkiye's main opposition CHP party's court-installed leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, delivers a speech at the party's headquarters in Ankara on 30 May 2026. Adem ALTAN / AFP

Türkiye’s opposition is now a shell of its former self 

Since the CHP defeated the ruling AKP party in the 2024 local elections, its leaders have either been deposed or imprisoned, in what its supporters call a targeted campaign

Omer Onhon 17 June 2026
AlMajalla

Trump has his Iran deal. How soon until oil prices come down?

It's complicated, but not this month, most likely.

Keith Johnson 17 June 2026
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As the US and Iran spar over Hormuz deal, the world waits with bated breath

12 August 2026

Any agreement that restores traffic through the strait will bring immediate relief, but repairing the damage wrought by war—and restoring confidence—will take far longer

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
Al Majalla
Politics

Is multipolarity helping or hindering Iran?

12 August 2026

A bit of both. It enabled its rise as a regional power, then helped weaken it, and may now help prevent its complete defeat.

Christopher Phillips
Opinion

Mecca diplomacy and the New Middle East

12 August 2026

Riyadh has made clear its vision for the future of a "new Middle East"—and it is one based on mutual respect, unity, peace and prosperity

Zaid bin Ali al-Fadhil
Al Majalla
Science & Technology

How AI is rewriting the rules of war and peace

10 August 2026

As states race to embed algorithms in systems of reconnaissance, targeting, air defence, and military decision-making, a new layer of risk is taking shape

Mohammed Mansour
Nesma Moharam
Culture & Social Affairs

The art of Taqāsīm: dividing time and charging silence

11 August 2026

Al Majalla traces the evolution of the solo improvisation musical form indigenous to the Middle East region

Fadi El-Abdallah

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