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Healing the Scars of the Past

[escenic_image id="55122464"]Few diplomatic moves carry so much significance as the appointment by Kuwait and Iraq of their new ambassadors to…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 01 September , 2010
Politics

Afghanistan's Greatest Enemy

[escenic_image id="55113191"] The Afghan Ministry of Mines recently announced the discovery of an oilfield with an estimated 1.8 billion barrels in…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 26 August , 2010
Politics

Yemen’s Summer of Discontent

[escenic_image id="55113174"]After the failed Detroit bomb plot last Christmas, Yemen is no longer headline news in Western capitals, but the poorest…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 25 August , 2010
Politics

Talks, Talks and More Talks

[escenic_image id="55112276"]Five months after the Iraqi parliamentary elections, which produced no clear victor, the formation of an Iraqi…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 24 August , 2010
Culture & Social Affairs

The Life of an Intrepid Traveler

[escenic_image id="55112119"] Far Horizons Frank Gardner £18.99 Hard Cover Reading Gardner’s book on a summer’s afternoon in London transported…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 24 August , 2010
Culture & Social Affairs

Modeling Tehran

[escenic_image id="55111049"]Dariush Borbor is an architect, urban planner and researcher based in Tehran. Educated in the United Kingdom and…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 24 August , 2010
Politics

Fatwa Chaos

[escenic_image id="55110711"]RIYADH–A well-known Saudi religious scholar recently advised that a woman could become kin to a man—and thus be alone…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 23 August , 2010
Politics

Out of Area

[escenic_image id="55101431"]Recently, American diplomats and military men invoked the constant tensions in the Middle East, namely the Israeli…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 18 August , 2010
Politics

The Godfather of Renovation Dies

[escenic_image id="55105033"]The life of a great man has reached its completion. This was the realization of Arabs frrm the ocean to the Gulf,…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 17 August , 2010
Politics

Exiled

[escenic_image id="55101601"]“Never do I want to give the impression that I am against Islam. Far from it. Nor do I want to give the impression that…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 17 August , 2010
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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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