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Beirut Galerie Janine Rubeiz

Jamil Molaeb’s 'Journeys of Cities': where old meets new

Each time the veteran Lebanese painter displays his past works, they bring a new lustre. It is not so much a push into the past as a pulling of the present

Mimoza Al-Arrawi 03 October 2026

Lebanon's government: between a rock and a hard place

Fares Garabet 19 August 2026

Israel whittles down Lebanon's border

Fares Garabet 04 August 2026
Axel Rangel Garcia

Why Israel may want to start ‘fighting smart’ in Lebanon

An Israeli diplomat recently told Lebanese Shiites that Israel did not see them as the enemy, but it is a difficult argument to make given the death and destruction. Is there a better way?

Frederic C. Hof 02 August 2026
An explosion of what appears to be white phosphorus fired by the Israeli military on the Lebanese side of the border on 10 May 2026. Reuters

The devastating impact of war on southern Lebanon’s farmers

Agriculture is a vital industry in Lebanon and some of the country's most fertile land is in the south, but Israeli munitions have caused immense and lasting damage, the scale of which is now emerging

Thuraya Shahin 30 July 2026
The Lebanese novelist Jabbour Douaihy lived between two worlds and two languages Lina Jaradat

Jabbour Douaihy and the art of living between two shores

Five years after his death, Douaihy's novels reveal how one of Lebanon's greatest writers lived between two languages, two worlds, and transformed the news of the day into stories that outlasted it

Bahaa Iy'ali 26 July 2026
Lebanese soldiers stand on a road near the entrance to the southern village of Zawtar al-Garhbiya on July 21, 2026. Fadel Itani/AFP

Reclaiming southern Lebanon village by village

Al Majalla visits an area where the locals refused to leave their homes to be used by Hezbollah, so they blocked roads, invited the army in, and coordinated with neighbouring areas

Lina Khatib 25 July 2026
Lebanon's Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and Syria's Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan Al-Shaibani hold a document on the formation of a joint Syrian-Lebanese committee as they meet in Beirut, Lebanon, July 2, 2026. Reuters

Syria and Lebanon relations as seen in two agreements

An accord from 1991 reinforced Syrian tutelage in Lebanon, but the days of the Assad regime and the occupation of its smaller neighbour are long gone. Will the 2026 accord usher in a new era?

Fayza Diab 21 July 2026
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio oversees the signing of the framework agreement between Israel and Lebanon in Washington on 26 June 2026. Reuters

One town at a time: Israel, Lebanon boost coordination

Under US tutelage, Tel Aviv and Beirut have agreed to work together to disarm Hezbollah and gradually replace Israel's army with Lebanon's in the south

Thuraya Shahin 03 July 2026

The fragility of Middle East ceasefires

Fares Garabet 01 July 2026
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Iran-Houthi escalation could backfire. Here is how

05, Oct 2026

The more Iran and its regional allies try to corner Yemen's government, the more international support it is getting to fight back

Ibrahim Jalal
Eduardo Ramón
Documents & Memoirs

Exclusive interview with the man who caught Eli Cohen

30, Sep 2026

Ibrahim Hamidi spent years following the story of Mossad's 'spy in Damascus ', but some secrets remained untold. He then learned that the man who could answer them was still alive

Ibrahim Hamidi
The leaders of Egypt, Somalia, Sudan and Eritrea met in Alamein Egypt on 4 October to discuss regional tensions. Eritrea Ministry of Information via X
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Have Ethiopia's neighbours formed an alliance against it?

06, Oct 2026

The leaders of Egypt, Somalia, Sudan, and Eritrea met in Alamein on Sunday, which some interpret as a formation of a loose security alliance aimed at influencing the geopolitics of the Horn of Africa

Amr Emam
A digital billboard displays fuel prices at a petrol station in Berlin on 2 October 2026. John MACDOUGALL / AFP
Business & Economy

G7 agrees to release 100 million barrels of reserve diesel

03, Oct 2026

Analysts believe that Trump is hoping to lower domestic fuel prices before the November midterm elections, which could see Democrats win a majority of seats in Congress

Alexandra Sharp
A supporters of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a Brazilian flag after a closing campaign rally, one day before the general election, in Sao Paulo, on 3 October, 2026. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
Politics

Who will be Brazil’s next president?

04, Oct 2026

Neither Lula nor Bolsonaro won an outright majority, so the two men will face off on 25 October in an election that could serve as a bellwether of Donald Trump's influence in Latin America

The Economist

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