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A portrait of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hangs during an anti-government protest calling for action to secure the release of Israeli hostages in Tel Aviv on March 29, 2025. Jack GUEZ / AFP
Politics

From covert to overt: Netanyahu's Doha strike is telling

Michael Horowitz 11 September 2025
Fathy Embaby on using history to understand the present Al Majalla
Culture & Social Affairs

Fathy Embaby on using history to understand the present

El-Sayed Hussein 11 September 2025
US President Joe Biden (L) with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on 18 October 2023. AFP

History shows US-Israel relationship has survived worse

The very public disagreements between Washington and Tel Aviv over Gaza in recent weeks are both rare and telling, yet this transatlantic alliance has weathered far more severe storms

Aqeel Abbas 02 May 2024
Luca D’Urbino/Majalla

Al Majalla wins two awards at the Society of Illustrators’ ceremony in New York

The Arab world's leading current and political affairs magazine recognised alongside prestigious international news publications for its innovative illustrations

Al Majalla - London 01 May 2024
The US has been “flooding” the Middle East with weaponry for decades. It provides Israel with billions of dollars of sophisticated military equipment every year, with no strings attached. Nathalie Lees

America fuelled the fire in the Middle East

Israel is in growing danger—but the responsibility lies more in Washington than in Tehran

Stephen M. Walt 01 May 2024
An Algerian official carries a child in a transit camp as Nigerien migrants in Algeria are repatriated by Algerian authorities back to Niger on June 29, 2018, in Laghouat, northern Algeria. AFP

Niger and Algeria draw battle lines over illegal migrants

Niger accuses Algeria of mistreating EU-bound Nigeriens by dumping them back in the desert. Algeria accuses Niger of opening the floodgates. Neither is backing down.

Rabia Khreis 30 April 2024
The novel's publisher, Rana Idris, received the award on behalf of Bassem Khandakji, alongside his brother Yousef.

Basim Khandaqji wins top Arabic literary award from behind prison bars

The jailed Palestinian author won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for his book, 'A Mask, the Colour of the Sky', which tells the story of a Palestinian man who finds and uses an Israeli ID

Ibrahim Adel 30 April 2024
Morocco's phosphate resources are a key ingredient in the fertilisers that can help increase food production around the world. Andrei Cojocaru

Morocco capitalises on its vast phosphate reserves

Phosphates will be vital for global food security, and Morocco, which straddles key maritime trade routes, is home to three-quarters of the world's supply

Mohamed Sharki 29 April 2024

Israel stifles Gaza humanitarian aid efforts

Fares Garabet 29 April 2024
Axel Rangel Garcia/Majalla

Feeling lost in Jerusalem? It’s called Palestinian self-demolitions

Five decades of demolition of Palestinian houses in occupied East Jerusalem

Ahmed Maher 26 April 2024
Israeli soldiers of the Jewish Ultra-Orthodox battalion "Netzah Yehuda" hold morning prayers as they take part in their annual unit training in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, near the Syrian border on May 19, 2014. MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP

Israel fears US sanctions on army battalion could open the floodgates

Israel fears that such action—if taken in Washington—could then be taken by other Israeli allies, whether against Netzah Yehuda or any other military unit

Sherine Younes 26 April 2024

Israel's war on Gaza passes 200-day mark

Fares Garabet 25 April 2024
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A portrait of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hangs during an anti-government protest calling for action to secure the release of Israeli hostages in Tel Aviv on March 29, 2025. Jack GUEZ / AFP
Politics

From covert to overt: Netanyahu's Doha strike is telling

11 September 2025

His emerging strategy shows a willingness to gamble on high-profile assassinations, even at the expense of diplomatic blowback, regional stability, and fragile negotiations

Michael Horowitz
A Hezbollah flag is placed in front of the shrine of Shamoun al-Safa, built within a castle in the village of Shamaa in southern Lebanon's Tyre governorate, on January 31, 2025, that was heavily damaged by Israeli bombing. Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP
Business & Economy

Trump Economic Zone plan raises eyebrows in Lebanon

11 September 2025

Many Lebanese see the project as a demographic one with economic dressings aimed at expelling the country's southern population from their lands

Souraya Chahine
Activists protest near the US Capitol on July 24, 2024, in Washington, DC. Activists staged multiple demonstrations near the Capitol to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington and Israel's war on Gaza. Alex Wong/ AFP
Politics

Americans are tiring of Israel. Will US policy follow?

01 September 2025

While the US public has long been supportive of Israel, its genocide in Gaza appears to have had a big effect, with most young Americans now outright hostile towards it

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy
Opinion

'The Voice of Hind Rajab' shows cries for justice are only getting louder

07 September 2025

A 24-minute standing ovation at the film premiere was more than a symbolic gesture of justice for Israel's murder of little Hind, but a heartfelt cry of real anguish over the ongoing genocide in Gaza

Samer Abou Hawwach
Al Majalla
Culture & Social Affairs

Fathy Embaby on using history to understand the present

05 September 2025

The Egyptian novelist—one of the Arab world's renowned writers of epic fiction—reveals the details of his craft to Al Majalla as the fourth book in his 'River' series captures a key moment

El-Sayed Hussein

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