The recent arrest of Riad Salameh, Lebanon’s former central bank governor, has grabbed headlines, but many Lebanese doubt he will stay behind bars…

I vividly remember a conversation with the former prime minister of Lebanon, the late Salim al-Huss, who once told me with a chuckle that our…

Examining the Al Majalla archives from just the past three months unearths a diverse array of issues spanning the globe.From the resurgence of…

What is the value of life in the Middle East? Is it worth less than elsewhere? Or does it depend on whose lives you are talking about?One might be…

The Middle East is holding its breath as it awaits Iran’s response to the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, shortly after he…

Israel's response to the killing of children in Majdal Shams – reportedly caused by a rocket launched by Hezbollah - appears to violate the rules of…

There is a question that echoes around the Middle East, and it resonates over every corner of the region and its political affairs, especially where…

As far as we can discern, if Donald Trump secures victory in the upcoming November presidential elections, his subsequent term promises to be…

The combined age of America’s two presidential candidates is 159. That is a lot of years. To show how many years that is, 159 years ago, America’s…

The rise of the far right is sweeping the world. The re-emergence of populism and "strongmen"—especially in the West—is changing the nature of…