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One Year of Obama’s Administration..

[escenic_image id="5513841"]His welcomed speech in Cairo combined passages from the Bible and the Koran, symbolic of the collaboration he was looking…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 18 January , 2010
Politics

Dr. Mustafa Olwi: Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Within a few days, Obama's first year in the White House will have passed. He was elected with a large majority, speaking to the belief in the…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 18 January , 2010
Politics

Aaron David Miller: A Herculean Task

As the clock ticks down on the first year of the Obama Presidency, the balance sheet on Arab-Israeli peacemaking is in the red. The President…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 18 January , 2010
Politics

A Perilous World

[escenic_image id="5514336"] William Cohen is the former Defense Secretary of the Clinton Administration during Clinton’s second term, from 1997 to…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 18 January , 2010
Politics

The Uphill Battle of American Diplomacy

[escenic_image id="5514371"]Christopher Hill, the son of an American diplomat, was born in Paris in 1952.  At a very young age, his family moved to…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 18 January , 2010
Business & Economy

Dubai and its Discontents

[escenic_image id="5513846"]When Dubai World requested a standstill on $60 billion worth of outstanding debt, stock markets were jolted and an entire…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 18 January , 2010
Culture & Social Affairs

Kryptonite or Super Sequel?

[escenic_image id="5513848"]When authors of successful non-fiction books toy with the idea of writing a sequel to a multi-million selling title, they…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 18 January , 2010
Politics

The Forgotten Sons of Iraq

The last few months in Iraq have been marked by periods of relative calm, interrupted by brutal suicide attacks mainly directed at government…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 18 January , 2010
Politics

One Year On

[escenic_image id="5513444"]One year has passed since Israel waged war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. It is a period long enough to test and…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 11 January , 2010
Politics

Generation X

[escenic_image id="5513458"]Only a few weeks ago, the Head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Mecca, Sheikh…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 11 January , 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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