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Working on a cotton-spinning machine in  Aleppo. Big Syrian textile manufacturers have now moved their families and business operations to Egypt. Reuters

The Syrian business owners setting up shop in Egypt since 2011

Big industrial manufacturers forced to leave their homeland have invested more than $1bn in their new home over the past decade, but overly complex bureaucracy means they can only do so unofficially

Joseph Daher 28 August 2024
Diana Estefanía Rubio

Crisis without borders: Syrian refugees in 130 countries

The ongoing conflict in Syria since 2011 has triggered the largest refugee and displacement crisis of our time. Syrian refugees have sought asylum in more than 130 countries, with the majority…

Al Majalla - London 04 June 2024

The persecution of Syrians at home and abroad

Fares Garabet 20 May 2024
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati (centre) welcomes Cypriot President Nikos
Christodoulides (left) and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission at the Government Palace in Beirut, May 2, 2024. AFP

€1bn European grant to Lebanon raises eyebrows

Some Lebanese see this as a "bribe" to prevent Syrian refugees from travelling by boat to Cyprus and then on to Europe. Lebanese Caretaker PM Najib Mikati denies this assertion.

Alia Mansour 07 May 2024

Tensions rise in Lebanon over Syrian refugees

Fares Garabet 18 April 2024
Syrian refugees wait to board a bus in Istanbul as they head to border villages in Edirne province on February 28, 2020. AFP

The complex “sociology of emotions” afflicting Syria's forced migrants

In a study published by 'Routledge', Syrian researcher and university professor Basem Mahmud studies the sociology of emotions experienced by Syrian refugees, from hope to despair.

Emad al-Ahmad 24 October 2023
Syrian refugee children play under posters depicting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey at a camp on the outskirts of Kahramanmaras in southeastern Turkey, Aug. 31, 2019. NYT

Syrian refugees in Turkey: A 'problem' that cannot be wished away

The only way Syrians would seriously consider returning home is through a political solution and putting a process in place to facilitate economic and social recovery

Omer Onhon 16 August 2023
Ukrainian refugees arrive at Amsterdam Central station by train from Berlin, on March 28, 2022, amir Russian invasion of Ukraine. AFP

Ukraine: Refugees, reconstruction, and the wait for peace

Neither international donors nor local investors will invest in projects that they cannot guarantee will survive potential political or security fluctuations

Al Majalla - London 24 February 2023
Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati gestures as he attends an interview with Reuters at the government headquarters in downtown Beirut, Lebanon September 30, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

WFP To Allocate $5.4 bln For Lebanon Over 3 Years, Caretaker PM Says

The World Food Programme has agreed to allocate $5.4 billion in aid for Lebanon over the next three years, Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said, as the country's economic crisis keeps…

21 November 2022
Syrian refugees sit near an informal camp, in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon October 18, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo

Syrian Refugees Cling On in Turkey, Lebanon As Fears Over Coerced Returns Grow

The first Syrian refugees in Lebanon to return home under a new repatriation scheme will leave on Wednesday, but few in worn-down camps in the central Bekaa Valley said they would sign up. Rights…

24 October 2022
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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
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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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