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Saleh’s Tipping Point

[escenic_image id="5511950"]November 2009 may well be remembered as a tipping point in Yemen’s grinding five-year campaign against a loose coalition…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 11 December , 2009
Politics

Hit First

[escenic_image id="5512290"]The reactions and issues that were raised, within the United States and beyond, regarding Obama’s decision of sending 30…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 11 December , 2009
Culture & Social Affairs

Unsolved Mysteries

[escenic_image id="5511958"] Joshua Craze and Mark Huband Hurst & Company, London 2009 There is perhaps no combination less familiar to the…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 11 December , 2009
Politics

The Next Ayatollah?

[escenic_image id="5511971"]Sayed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, the son of the cleric Sayed Mohammad Ali, was one of the leaders of the Islamic Dawa…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 11 December , 2009
Politics

What Lies Beneath

[escenic_image id="5511953"]The Houthi phenomenon belongs to the Zaidi school of thought, which dates back to 1986. This school of thought first…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 11 December , 2009
Politics

The Discreet Diplomat

[escenic_image id="5511451"] "I am faced by many challenges, but I will do my best" This was one of the first statements issued by Yukiya Amano, the…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 04 December , 2009
Business & Economy

There Will Be Gas

[escenic_image id="5511453"]The European Union’s (EU) share of gas in its consumption of primary energy has risen from 18% in 1990, to 24% in its…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 04 December , 2009
Culture & Social Affairs

Crude World

[escenic_image id="5511454"] Peter Maass Alfred A Knopf 2009 In The Pearl, the 1947 novella by the American novelist John Steinbeck, an…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 04 December , 2009
Politics

Better Safe Than Sorry

[escenic_image id="5511133"]In recent months, no name became more associated publicly with the position of President of the European Union Council…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 04 December , 2009
Politics

The Iranian Illusion

[escenic_image id="5511745"]There have always been general unanswered questions in high profile Arab discussions, most important of which are: Who…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 04 December , 2009
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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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