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Remembering Norwegian poet Gunvor Höfmo Supplied
Culture & Social Affairs

Remembering Norwegian poet Gunvor Höfmo

Apart from a single line on Wikipedia, there is no information available in Arabic about the Norwegian poet Gunvor Höfmo (1921-1995), despite her…

Antoine Jockey 13 October , 2025
Egypt's post-October 7 balancing act Al Majalla
Politics

Egypt's post-October 7 balancing act

Egypt saw the October 7 2023, attack against Israel as a symptom of occupation, rather than one of unprovoked terror. Notably, Cairo never explicitly…

Amr Emam 13 October , 2025
Opinion

Why Trump can't quit the Middle East

Donald Trump has repeatedly announced that he is retiring from the Middle East. He said that the wars in this region are endless and that Washington…

Ibrahim Hamidi 12 October , 2025
Europe swarms with drone activity
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Europe swarms with drone activity

Fares Garabet 12 October , 2025
A municipal worker fixes a sign in Sharm el-Sheikh, as the Egyptian resort town gets ready to host a US-brokered Gaza peace summit, on October 12, 2025. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP
Politics

Gaza ceasefire takes off, but expect turbulence ahead

US President Donald Trump departs for the Middle East on Sunday, 12 October, his second trip to the region in five months—and what a difference five…

Brian Katulis 12 October , 2025
Khaled al-Anani: the first Arab head of UNESCO Axel Rangel Garcia
Profiles

Khaled al-Anani: the first Arab head of UNESCO

For the boy who grew up taking family picnics between the paws of Egypt’s Great Sphinx, it is fitting that his ascension to head the United Nations…

Amr Emam 12 October , 2025
100 years on, television confronts the digital age Al Majalla
Science & Technology

100 years on, television confronts the digital age

A century ago, on 2 October 1925, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird transmitted the first televised image using a mechanical prototype. It was of a…

Marco Mossad 12 October , 2025
A protester highlights British companies’ involvement in manufacturing F-35 fighter jets used in Gaza, demanding an arms embargo on Israel, outside the offices of Lockheed Martin, in Havant, Britain, October 8, 2025. REUTERS/Toby Melville
Business & Economy

Israel can’t survive autarky

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently said his country should reduce its dependence on trade with other countries, as the state faces a…

Giovanni Legorano 12 October , 2025
Opinion

Syria’s new parliament raises old questions

On 5 October, Syria marked what transitional president Ahmed al-Sharaa described as a “historic moment”: the country’s first parliamentary elections…

Haid Haid 11 October , 2025
Patience wears thin for Arabs from Syria's SDF areas Shelly Kittleson
Politics

Patience wears thin for Arabs from Syria's SDF areas

Deir ez-Zor: “That was where military security would shoot at us,” a young man in uniform told Al Majalla on a ride through some of the parts of this…

Shelly Kittleson 11 October , 2025
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Politics

A Houthi takeover of Bab al-Mandab cannot be tolerated

12 September 2026

The Iran-backed group's effective takeover of Yemen's western coast comes with serious regional and global implications. The world needs to act.

Alice Gower
Pete Reynolds
Politics

Inside Assad’s nuclear secrets

09 September 2026

Al Majalla reveals the structure of Syria's nuclear programme 19 years after Israel bombed the Al-Kibar reactor, detailing the involvement of other states and the assassinations that followed

Al Majalla - London
Underwater image of a diver among fish at the North Seymour Island dive site in the Galapagos archipelago, Ecuador, taken on 8 March 2024. ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP
Business & Economy

The global race for rare earths reaches the ocean floor

07 September 2026

A critical mineral found on Japan's seabed has caught US attention, and the two are teaming up to see whether it can yield future benefits and reduce their dependence on China

Abdulfattah Khattab
Al Majalla/Reuters
Politics

The murky origins of al-Qaeda explained

09 September 2026

Thousands of Muslim volunteers flocked to Afghanistan in 1979 to fight the Soviets in response to a rallying cry, aided by the largest covert operation in CIA history

Steve Hewitt
Susan Sarandon in Echo Chamber ANDREA MICONI
Culture & Social Affairs

Susan Sarandon on fear, freedom, and refusing to change

08 September 2026

The renowned American actress tells Al Majalla about her gnawing drive for justice at the Venice Film Festival, where her new film 'Echo Chamber' premiered

Leila Amar

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