On 1st June 2025, British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs David Lammy expressed the United Kingdom’s official support for Morocco’s Autonomy Plan, referring to the framework as ...

Hezbollah functions as both a political organization and a military force according to different observers. It is primarily referred to as a resistance force and social welfare provider according to ...

“The Hamas-Israel War and its Regional Implications” is the first issue of Manara Magazine in 2024. As a dynamic online issue, published in Manara Magazine since the outbreak of the Hamas-Israel war ...

Manara – “Lighthouse” – aims to foster critical conversations on the Middle East and North Africa region through the voices of established and emerging specialists in politics, international relations ...

Manara – “Lighthouse” – aims to foster critical conversations on the Middle East and North Africa region through the voices of established and emerging specialists in politics, international relations ...

Compiled retroactively on 8th May, 2024, with additional rolling pieces to be published.

Manara Magazine’s forthcoming issue will highlight the ongoing policymaking challenges that countries most affected by climate change in the Middle East and North Africa face, as well as analyse case ...

To permit the widest possible range of submissions, the ‘Middle East’ is defined broadly as including all Arab League states, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel and Turkey. Pitches will be considered based on ...

Manara Magazine’s Editorial Team accepts pitches for articles and opinion pieces on a rolling basis. Learn more about our submission guidelines and Manara’s remuneration system.

This article is part of a multi-part series on Arab Gulf security. Without periodic British or US interventions over the last 300 years, the contemporary map of the Arabian Gulf would undoubtedly be ...

Countries in the Middle East and North Africa lack any legislative framework to allow legal gender recognition (LGR) for their transgender populations. This legislative vacuum has forced transgender ...

For Iraq’s ethnic and religious minorities to enjoy equal political rights and participate in decision-making, an important place to start is to address their sense of political marginalisation.