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Dealing With the Backyard Bully

[escenic_image id="5510636"]For Gulf Arabs, the entry of their centuries-old Persian rival into the elite club of nuclear-armed states would be a…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 06 November , 2009
Politics

Who Rules Pakistan?

[escenic_image id="5510567"]Discussion of Pakistan’s ability to fight the Taliban successfully has centred on the question of military or civilian…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 06 November , 2009
Politics

Abu Bakr Sedek Abdel Ghaffar: Pakistan is Not on the Road to Civil War

Pakistan's tribal region and major cities witnessed a violent series of bloody events last October. These events coincided with the announcement that…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 06 November , 2009
Politics

Mohammed Fayez Farahat: Who’s in Charge Here?

Indeed, there is a third party which had not been able to take control of the central authority in Pakistan. But this third party remains an…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 06 November , 2009
Politics

Dr. Abdullah Al-Madani: A Country on the verge of collapse

In major western research institutions, many of those who track the situation in Pakistan believe that this country is doomed to fall sooner or later…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 06 November , 2009
Politics

The Chapters Left to Write

[escenic_image id="5510597"] Majalla - After the June elections in Iran, was there any real chance of the Islamic republic ending in a wave of…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 06 November , 2009
Politics

The Mysterious Doctor

[escenic_image id="5510631"]Vagueness and political shrewdness are the qualities that characterize best Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan's…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 06 November , 2009
Business & Economy

Reviving the Decoupling Debate

[escenic_image id="5510565"] BRICs as the Emerging (Decoupled) Leaders Prior to the global financial crisis, there was a virulent debate over the…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 06 November , 2009
Politics

Mustafa Al-Souaf : The Stable Gaza

I would be exaggerating if I said that Gaza has not enjoyed a moment of internal security and stability better than what it is experiencing right now…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 30 October , 2009
Politics

Muhammed Gamal Arafa : On the Oslo Road

Although 27 months in the lifespan of most states or governments do not mean much, this is not the case for the Islamic resistance movement’s (Hamas)…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine 30 October , 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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