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A waiter walks past the statue of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa in front of the famous A Brasileira café in Lisbon, on 14 July 2021. Patricia de Melo Moreira / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Pessoa and Sufi luminous solitude

This is a direct translation of the article that originally appeared in Arabic.There is a small moment known to those who choose solitude of their…

Bahaa Iy'ali 15 March , 2026
Opinion

From Bashar al-Assad to Mojtaba Khamenei

In the early 1990s, Bashar al-Assad was living in London. His days were spent in laboratories, his spare hours in cafés and nightclubs. The ‘doctor’…

Ibrahim Hamidi 14 March , 2026
Image taken by the European Space Agency of Iran's Kharg Island on 7 March 2026.
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Business & Economy

US strikes Kharg island, a vital hub for Iran’s oil

US President Donald Trump on Friday evening announced that he’d ordered strikes on Kharg Island, a small but strategically vital island in the…

John Haltiwanger 14 March , 2026
How Ukraine's drone defence model can help Gulf states Al Majalla
Politics

How Ukraine's drone defence model can help Gulf states

As Iranian Shahed drones continue to strike targets across the Middle East amidst the raging war with Israel and the US that has stretched regional…

Ahmed Maher 14 March , 2026
Choke point: how the Iran war is stifling global energy markets Lina Jaradat
Business & Economy

Choke point: how the Iran war is stifling global energy markets

As the global economic fallout from the US-Israeli war on Iran continues to mount, the conflict is creating the largest oil supply disruption in…

Abdulfattah Khattab 14 March , 2026
How war in Iran is impacting Armenia and Azerbaijan Al Majalla
Politics

How war in Iran is impacting Armenia and Azerbaijan

The launch of US-Israeli airstrikes against Iran on 28 February led to a response by the Islamic Republic that has drawn in more than a dozen…

Nazareth Seferian 14 March , 2026
Opinion

Lebanon's failure to disarm Hezbollah comes with a price

For the past 16 months, the Lebanese government and military have chosen not to choose—and risked their country’s future. Lebanon, a weak and divided…

David Schenker 14 March , 2026
Opinion

Trump's positive war spin falls on deaf ears

US President Donald Trump’s assertion that the war in Iran has already been won appears somewhat premature, given that the Iranians are still…

Con Coughlin 13 March , 2026
The stubborn revolutionary: Ali Khamenei's last stand Grace Russell
Profiles

The stubborn revolutionary: Ali Khamenei's last stand

Ali Khamenei was 24 years old when he got on a plane for the first time. This should have been an exciting time, but the circumstances didn’t allow…

Arash Azizi 06 March , 2026
Plumes of smoke near Jebel Ali port after a new Iranian attack on Dubai, on 1 March 2026. AFP
Business & Economy

US-Iran war threatens Gulf diversification plans

The joint US-Israeli attack on Iran has triggered retaliatory strikes, with Tehran hitting back at Israeli and American assets throughout the region…

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 06 March , 2026
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Business & Economy

How a tiny waterway put the global economy into a chokehold

18 April 2026

Disruption in the Hormuz can have major implications for global trade, but it also creates opportunities for smaller nations like Iran to become global political players

Steve Hewitt
Pete Reynolds
Politics

Glimpses of Bush's Iraq debacle appear in Trump's Iran war

15 April 2026

The Iraq war was viewed as disastrous in retrospect, while the Iran war was unpopular from the get-go. Al Majalla highlights the similarities and differences between the two.

Robert Ford
Al Majalla
Business & Economy

The US plan to turn Syria into an oil transit hub

16 April 2026

Pipelines have a chequered history in the Middle East, but the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led US Tom Barrack to conclude that a new route through Syria could solve some problems.

Al Majalla - London
An Iranian woman flashes the V-sign as she takes part in a rally to pay tribute to women killed during war, in Tehran on 17 April 2026. AFP
Politics

Has Iran's ideology actually hardened?

16 April 2026

The change in tone and presentation of policy isn't a fundamental redirection, but rather the consolidation of a system under pressure

Alex Vatanka
Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed holds two awards during the opening ceremony of the Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, late on 14 September 2010. AMR AHMAD / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Daoud Abdel Sayed and the cinema of quiet rebellion

16 April 2026

Throughout his career, the renowned Egyptian film director challenged authority, rejected easy answers, and remained rooted in lived experience

Hazem Massoud

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