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Yemen after Saleh
Politics

Yemen after Saleh

[caption id="attachment_55230345" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption=" Ali Abdullah Saleh"][/caption]President Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed to…

Bernard Haykel 30 March , 2012
Ghosts of Heliopolis
Politics

Ghosts of Heliopolis

[caption id="attachment_55230314" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Cairo War Memorial Cemetery "][/caption] Deep in the heart of Cairo's…

Alastair Beach 29 March , 2012
East Meets Middle East

East Meets Middle East

[caption id="attachment_552302" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Installation view of 'Endless' Cai Guo-Qiang"][/caption] The…

Juliet Highet 28 March , 2012
Remembering Arafat
Politics

Remembering Arafat

[caption id="attachment_55230203" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Yasser Arafat poses on the streets of Beirut (circa 1980)"][/caption] …

Omar H. Rahman 27 March , 2012
Women on the Front

Women on the Front

In Egypt, on the eleventh of February 2011—the night president Hosni Mubarak resigned and handed over power to the army—a revolution was on the…

Helena Alves 23 March , 2012
Once Upon a Lost Time in Turkey

Once Upon a Lost Time in Turkey

[caption id="attachment_55230135" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Ceylan references Sergio Leone the film's title, and more."][/caption…

Nicholas Blincoe 23 March , 2012
The Odd Couple
Politics

The Odd Couple

[caption id="attachment_55230114" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani meets with Ayatollah Ali Khamanei in…

Alex Vatanka 22 March , 2012
Restoring Egypt's Splendor
Culture & Social Affairs

Restoring Egypt's Splendor

[caption id="attachment_55230091" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="(photo credit: Mourad Heshmat)"][/caption] No other country in the Middle…

Ati Metwaly 22 March , 2012
The Art Rendezvous of the Middle East

The Art Rendezvous of the Middle East

[caption id="attachment_55230054" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="WolfPakistan are playing as part of Performance Night at Art Dubai in the…

Noam Schimmel 21 March , 2012
Self Defense
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Self Defense

[caption id="attachment_55230048" align="aligncenter" width="589" caption="Mohammed Riad Al-Shaqfa"][/caption] The Majalla has met with the leader…

Roshan Kasem 21 March , 2012
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Axel Rangel Garcia
Business & Economy

Test of wills: Iran’s ability to outlast the US blockade

26 April 2026

The standoff in the Hormuz is not simply a question of whether Tehran can survive economic pressure, but whether Washington can sustain the pressure at an acceptable cost.

Alex Vatanka
Al Majalla
Politics

Netanyahu's Iran victory claim falls on deaf ears in Israel

29 April 2026

Many Israelis actually believe that they lost the war, with opposition leader Yair Lapid accusing the Israeli premier of having led the country into "strategic collapse and diplomatic catastrophe"

Asaad Ghanem
Sara Padovan
Science & Technology

Iran’s 'mosquito fleet' presents a pesky problem

28 April 2026

The Strait of Hormuz is now poised to become the primary arena of confrontation, with Iran relying on speedboat-driven guerrilla warfare to confront the US navy.

Marco Mossad
A Syrian army soldier holds a national flag featuring Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in front of a building left in ruins on 5 June 2013 in the city of Qusayr in the Homs province. AFP
Politics

Syria's taswiya slow roll creates a host of problems

28 April 2026

Former regime soldiers are stuck in limbo, as their undocumented status prevents them from working, travelling, and curbs family members' access to education, healthcare and social services

Haid Haid
Culture & Social Affairs

The Arab women raising the bar in travel literature

28 April 2026

In recent years, travel writing has witnessed a striking revival, though along a different path, one now charted by Arab women's voices.

Ibrahim Adel

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