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Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa Al Majalla

From Idlib to New York: Sharaa’s winding road to the UN

From the plains of Idlib to the presidential palace in Damascus and now the UN headquarters in Manhattan, Al Majalla traces the Syrian president's journey to get to this historic moment

Ibrahim Hamidi 14 September 2025
Syria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ibrahim Olabi.

Ibrahim Olabi: UN ambassador of the 'new Syria'

Appointed as Syrian envoy to the world body by President Sharaa, this young barrister with British connections is no stranger to the diplomatic world

Subhi Franjieh 14 September 2025
A man checks the destruction inside the heavily damaged Syrian army and defence ministry headquarters complex in Damascus, following Israeli strikes on July 16, 2025. Bakr ALkasem / AFP

Why a Syria-Israel security agreement is so important

Al-Sharaa confirmed the possibility of clinching a deal during a meeting with Arab journalists earlier this month, accompanied by a US push for Israel to cooperate in this regard

Michael Harari 10 September 2025

A new book on Syria zeroes in on the impact of absence

In a world weighed down by oppression and injustice, Fawwaz Haddad's rich new character-driven novel chronicles the fate of a homeland ensnared by the corrupt Ba'athist regime

Abdul Rahman Mazhar Halloush 10 September 2025
Shelly Kittleson

Israel looms large over Daraa as displaced recount horrors

Al Majalla visited the southern province known as "the cradle of the Syrian revolution", as Israeli airstrikes continued, and schools filled with IDPs from Sweida

Shelly Kittleson 08 September 2025

Syria’s post-Assad energy quandary

The country now sits at an energy crossroads: will its recovery be anchored in oil and gas, or will it seize the chance to lean into renewables and build something more resilient?

Jesse Marks 01 September 2025
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus, Syria, December 22, 2024.
 SANA

Ahmed Sharaa on Syria's 'zero-problems' strategy

Syria's president says the Abraham Accords aren't the right fit for Damascus. Instead, he hopes to reinstate the 1974 disengagement agreement with Israel or something similar

Ibrahim Hamidi 26 August 2025
Fghters from Bedouin tribes in western Sweida city on July 19, 2025. AFP

Sweida is a test case for competing visions for Syria

The outbreak of violence in Syria's south has jolted foreign powers into action. Russia's return there could bring more stability, but also threatens to undermine the US agenda

Caroline Rose 24 August 2025
A burned-out home in Sweida on 6 August 2025. Shelly Kittleson

What happened in Sweida? Grim testimonies revealed

Al Majalla visits the Druze-majority governorate, the scene of crimes allegedly committed at the behest of Damascus and speaks to citizens who relay the horrors they witnessed

Shelly Kittleson 19 August 2025
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Syria's journey from union to state under French rule

First divided into mini-states, France later merged them into a federal union in 1922, which was a spectacular failure. In 1925, it was replaced by the Syrian state with Damascus as the capital.

Sami Moubayed 18 August 2025
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Trump's visit tests 'special' US-UK relationship

16 September 2025

Despite Trump's often hostile engagement with traditional US allies, Starmer has trodden a careful path to keep him on side. But is this sustainable?

Christopher Phillips
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
Armed men from the MSA, an armed political movement in Mali's Azawad region, gather in the desert outside Menaka on March 14, 2020. AFP
Politics

The Sahel's paramilitary problem

09 September 2025

Armed groups are being formed in places like Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, where state militaries cannot defeat jihadists and separatists alone. Once formed, however, they seldom stay loyal.

Sergey Eledinov
Egyptian writer May Telmissany poses during a portrait session held on April 15, 2014, in Paris, France. Ulf Andersen/Getty
Culture & Social Affairs

May Telmissany: writing is an act of resistance against the ugliness of the world

14 September 2025

The acclaimed Egyptian writer talks love, betrayal, autobiography, and the lack of Arab literary identity

El-Sayed Hussein
Lina Jaradat
Politics

Butterfly effect: can the Palestine protest movement turn the tide?

14 September 2025

For nearly two years, protests around the world calling for an end to Israel's war on Gaza haven't fizzled out, but grown. Their geographic reach and longevity appear to have no precedent in history.

Bryn Haworth

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