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How Gaza’s hakawati use storytelling to cling to memory and life Aliaa Aboukhaddour
Culture & Social Affairs

How Gaza’s hakawati use storytelling to cling to memory and life

In Gaza, stories are told not merely for amusement but as acts of survival, fragile bridges to a life that drifts further away with each passing day…

Houssam Marouf 17 August , 2025
Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at the 45th meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Kuwait City on December 1, 2024.
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Politics

Kuwait reforms bear fruit after decades of political deadlock

When Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah assumed direct leadership of Kuwait as its emir, he was swift to outline his ambitions for the country…

Khalaf Al-Duwai 17 August , 2025
Rupert Murdoch: the media mega-mogul taking on Trump Nash
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Rupert Murdoch: the media mega-mogul taking on Trump

When media mogul Rupert Murdoch said he was stepping down as chairman of Fox and News Corp in September 2023, with his son Lachlan replacing him to…

Con Coughlin 17 August , 2025
Opinion

Global outrage won't deter Netanyahu from Gaza occupation

Not only has Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announced plan to fully occupy Gaza sparked an international outcry, but it has also…

Con Coughlin 16 August , 2025
Instead of respite, Gaza's war-torn brace for full Israeli occupation Lina Jaradat
Politics

Instead of respite, Gaza's war-torn brace for full Israeli occupation

In the first week of August, a flurry of Israeli statements announced the government’s intention to fully occupy the Gaza Strip, imposing security…

Salem Al Rayyes 16 August , 2025
How Vision 2030 diversified the Saudi economy Al Majalla
Business & Economy

How Vision 2030 diversified the Saudi economy

In our first instalment of a two-part series on the evolution of Saudi Arabia's economy, Al Majalla outlined the beginnings of the country's…

Hussein al-Sharaa 16 August , 2025
Syrian Defence Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra and Turkish Defence Minister Yaşar Güler hold up an MOU on security cooperation in Ankara on August 13, 2025. Syrian Foreign Ministry
Politics

The implications of expanded Syria-Türkiye military ties

Diplomatic activity within and about Syria is currently running at a frenzied pace, as parties both internal and external jostle for position, ahead…

Omer Onhon 15 August , 2025
Opinion

What global apathy over Gaza says about the modern world

The daily massacres in the Gaza Strip, coupled with the world’s apathy and unwillingness to halt them, demand a renewed examination of modern human…

Houssam Itani 15 August , 2025
Opinion

Hezbollah and the end of the militia era

On 30 September 1989, Lebanon’s warring factions met in the Saudi city of Taif and agreed on the “National Accord Document”. On 22 October of the…

Alia Mansour 15 August , 2025
Al Majalla's Book Watch Al Majalla
Culture & Social Affairs

Al Majalla's Book Watch

The Arab world has a vibrant and rich literary scene. Al Majalla picks out some choice titles in our fortnightly round-up of the latest Arabic books,…

Khodr Al Agha 15 August , 2025
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Eduardo Ramon
Politics

China is not scared of Trump’s squeeze on Iran

04 September 2026

Beijing has plenty of leverage to deter Washington

Henry Tugendhat
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
Raven Jiang
Politics

From the war on terror to networked security

07 September 2026

The main change since 9/11 is that military security has become one component of a much wider security ecosystem

Lina Khatib
Japanese director Takashi Miike at an event for the film 'Shumei: The Living Legacy of Kabuki' IMDb
Culture & Social Affairs

Takeshi Miike's new Kabuki documentary surprises critics

06 September 2026

For a filmmaker who has spent decades challenging norms, a film about traditional Japanese theatre seems like an odd choice. At the Venice Film Festival, he explains to Al Majalla why it is not.

Leila Amar
Sara Padovan
Politics

Donald Trump and the new Latin American right

04 September 2026

Across Central and South America, a raft of right-wingers borrow from each other's playbooks and ride on the US president's coattails to win elections and power. Is it ideology or practicality?

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra

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