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Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L), Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (C) and Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama attend a working group session on Migration in Woodstock, southern England, on July 18, 2024. Hollie Adams / AFP

Goo-goo for Giorgia: Why Starmer is so smitten with Italy's migration policies

A look at Meloni's deal with Albania and what Labour hopes to learn from the far-right Brothers of Italy and its tough-on-migration approach

Bryn Haworth 05 October 2024
Migrants disembark from a lifeboat on the southeast coast of England after being picked up at sea while crossing the English Channel from France on August 16, 2023. HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP

Europe's leaders take notes on Meloni's tough migration stance

At a time when so many European leaders are facing intense political pressure to resolve the migrant crisis, the Italian PM's ability to reduce illegal migration by 60% has turned heads

Con Coughlin 29 September 2024
How migration, employment, and education are weakening the patriarchy and strengthening the nuclear family unit. Nesma Moharam

Palestinians in the diaspora: How the nuclear family unit is challenging the patriarchy

Through the story of a Palestinian couple who migrated to Saudi Arabia in search of better opportunities, Al Majalla explores the evolution of the Palestinian family.

Ahmad Ezzeddin Assaad 09 September 2023
taken on March 08, 2019 People wave Algerian national flags in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. AFP

France and Algeria's 'special' relationship is being tested once again

A migration accord between Algeria and its former colonial ruler struck in 1968 is now at the heart of the political reaction to riots following a police killing of a youth of Algerian descent

Rabie Khreis 17 July 2023
Nathalie Lees

As Sudan burns, one refugee embarks on a harrowing journey into the unknown

Like the Palestinians before them, Sudan's people seek refuge from war and dream of return. This is one personal story of conflict's devastating arrival in Khartoum.

Amgad Fareid Eltayeb 10 July 2023
A general view shot shows a neighborhood in the Syrian capital Damascus. (AFP PHOTO / LOUAI BESHARA)

Stagnation in Syria’s Real Estate Market

The efforts of countries located in Syria’s vicinity and working to return Syrian refugees to their country forced the refugees to head to the real estate market, which is witnessing a major…

Jiwan Soz 26 August 2022
A handout photo made available by Belta news agency shows migrants gathering on the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region, Belarus, 08 November 2021 (issued 09 November 2021). EPA/LEONID

From Syria to Belarus: A Little Hope for Reaching Families in Germany

since the outbreak of the Syrian war nearly a decade ago, which followed the outbreak of popular protests against President Bashar al-Assad in various regions of the country in mid-March of 2011,…

Jiwan Soz 12 November 2021
Sam Ali as (Yahya Mahayni), who becomes a work of art, in front of a crowd in a scene from the film. (Supplied)

The Man Who Sold His Skin: A Movie About Syrian Refugees’ Suffering

Imagine a Schengen visa engraved on your back so that you can travel freely as an artwork and not a human? If you are asked by a famous tattoo artist to sell your skin for him to draw on it and…

Salma Adham 25 June 2021

Only Migration Can Save the Welfare State

In the coming decades, the developed world will face a daunting demographic challenge. As life expectancy goes up and fertility rates go down inNorth America,Europe, and the Pacific nations…

Lant Pritchett 06 March 2020
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When Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visits the White House to meet with US President Donald Trump on 18 November, there will be no shortage of issues for the two leaders to discuss

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This handout photograph released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on 10 November 2025, shows US President Donald Trump (L) shaking hands with Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House in Washington DC. SANA / AFP
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Since Trump began lifting sanctions in May, no time has been wasted. US investment delegations have been flocking to Damascus, and security cooperation has already started.

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Is support for Israel becoming toxic at the ballot box? 

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As Americans rethink the moral—and strategic—calculus of US support for Israel, politicians are scrambling to keep pace

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03 November 2025

Al Majalla examines key developments in the US and across the globe less than a year into Trump's second presidential term

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The olive tree is no longer just a source of sustenance for West Bank Palestinians, but a silent witness to their profound struggle between permanence and erasure

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