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People shout slogans as they gather after a two-week ceasefire in the Iran war was announced, in Tehran, Iran, 8 April 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
Politics

US-Iran ceasefire unlikely to hold

Xiaotong Yang 08 April 2026
New study finds deep sleep better than long sleep Noelia de Alda
Science & Technology

New study finds deep sleep better than long sleep

Mohammed Mansour 07 April 2026
A worker assembles vehicle parts on a production line inside the Renault factory on the outskirts of Tangier, Morocco, which has grown to become a giant in automobile manufacturing over the past 15 years, on April 29, 2024. AFP

Wheels come off: Morocco gets caught in the global trade storm

While Rabat may have escaped the worst of Donald Trump's tariffs, it has not been spared the impact of the European Union's increasingly fraught fight with China over the auto industry

Mohamed Sharki 16 April 2025
A sign on a building slide with a silhouette depicting US president-elect Donald Trump that reads, "Climate crisis won't stop for a climate denier" on November 18, 2024, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. LUIS ROBAYO / AFP

Has Trump’s second term killed off ESG?

The famed framework for evaluating a firm's environmental, social, and governance impact has informed investment choices for several years. Have Trump's White House edicts left it bruised, or buried?

Nazareth Seferian 03 April 2025
Customers walk past the Apple logo inside the Apple Store at Grand Central Station in New York City, USA. Reuters

Trump issues exemptions after tariffs take a bite out of Apple

Smartphones and other tech devices are now exempted from tariffs after their stocks took a hit. Trump may now realise the US doesn't have the infrastructure and workforce needed to reshore production.

Marco Mossad 13 April 2025
Julian D. Paulsen

How countries should respond to Trump’s tariffs

A 90-day pause on tariffs does not mean countries can now sit back and relax. From lying low to outright retaliation, a former US trade negotiator lists out the options available to world leaders.

Wendy Cutler 12 April 2025
New York Stock Exchange crash on Black Monday, April 7, 2025 AFP

A Fed rate cut can't fix global markets slump

Trump's tariff war has sent stock markets reeling, leaving investors looking to the US central bank for relief. But this is no quick fix.

Sharif Mohammad 08 April 2025
Diana Estefanía Rubio

Will Trump's tariffs unleash inflation?

Days after US president Donald Trump’s administration unveiled the sharpest ever escalation in American tariffs going back 200 years, Chair of the US Federal Reserve Jerome Powell said that tariffs…

Al Majalla - London 08 April 2025
Julian D. Paulsen

Why Trump's bid to peel Russia from China won't work

Trump thinks that lifting sanctions and reintegrating Russia will weaken Moscow's alliance with Beijing. That is short-sighted. The world Henry Kissinger exploited in 1970 is no longer.

Shirley Ze Yu 08 April 2025
Nicola Ferrarese

How chatting with DeepSeek differs from ChatGPT

"Our mission is to provide information, not to promote any agenda," the made-in-China chatbot explains

Abdulsalam Bin Abdulali 08 April 2025
Brian Stauffer

Will Trump back down from a global trade war?

The US president still has plenty of outs from his extreme tariffs

Bob Davis 07 April 2025
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Al Majalla's Film Watch

Every month, Al Majalla offers its take on the screen's newest releases, with the occasional dip into the archives to review an older classic

Areej Jamal 05 April 2025
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People shout slogans as they gather after a two-week ceasefire in the Iran war was announced, in Tehran, Iran, 8 April 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
Politics

US-Iran ceasefire unlikely to hold

07 April 2026

If the ceasefire collapses, China has an interest in getting the two sides back to the table, but it would be a difficult task given Tehran's deep mistrust of the US and Israel.

Xiaotong Yang
Grace Russell
Politics

Gulf states should steer clear of attritional war traps

01 April 2026

The US-Israeli war against Iran aims to draw in Gulf states, but history has shown that entering wars is far easier than exiting them. Prudence is needed now more than ever.

Khairuldeen Al Makhzoomi
Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin speaks at a press conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 25 August, 2025. Luka Dakskobler / Getty
Politics

'Israel is exploiting Iran war to kill a Palestinian state'

01 April 2026

PA Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin tells Al Majalla that Israel is taking advantage of the fact that the world is distracted by the US-Iran war to create irreversible facts on the ground

Ahmed Maher
People gather during a celebration called by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) at the Umayyad Square, after the ousting of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, 20 December, 2024. Reuters / Ammar
Business & Economy

US-Iran war gives Syria's global economic pitch more urgency

01 April 2026

Given the effective closure of the Hormuz Strait and Houthi threats to close off the Red Sea, Syria may emerge as a corridor and conduit to bypass these embattled maritime chokepoints

Charles Lister
Farid al-Madhan Reuters/ Al Majalla
Politics

Farid al-Madhan: Assad's fingerprints were on every picture

31 March 2026

A former army forensics employee who later became known as Caesar tells Al Majalla how he risked his life to expose the torture and killing of countless Syrians in regime prisons

Ibrahim Hamidi

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