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An Iraqi fisherman casts his net in the Euphrates River, which passes through the city of Nasiriyah the capital of the Iraqi Dhi Qar Governorate on January 2, 2024. Asaad Niazi / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Nasiriyah and Iraq’s rural-urban divide

When construction of the city of Nasiriyah began in southern Iraq in the late 19th century, it inflicted a lasting wound. That wound—the fraught,…

Marwan Yassin Al Dulaimi 30 July , 2025
An Israeli battle tank deployed at a position along the border with the Gaza Strip and southern Israel on July 29, 2025. Jack Guez / AFP
Politics

The latest ‘corridor’ helps the Israeli military fragment Gaza

In the second week of July, Hamas announced its rejection of Israeli withdrawal maps proposed in ceasefire and prisoner-exchange negotiations by the…

Salem Al Rayyes 30 July , 2025

Humanitarian Aid in Gaza and more from around the world

Omar AL-QATTAA/AFP
Omar AL-QATTAA/AFP

Hidaya, a 31-year-old Palestinian mother, carries her sick 18-month-old son Mohammed al-Mutawaq, who is also displaying signs of malnutrition, inside their tent at the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, on July 24, 2025.

Hussein FALEH/AFP
Hussein FALEH/AFP

Iranian Shiite Muslims arrive on foot in Basra via the Shalamcheh border crossing, to take part in the Arbaeen pilgrimage in the Iraqi city of Karbala, on July 25, 2025.

SANA /AFP
SANA /AFP

Syrian Red Crescent trucks carrying humanitarian aid arriving at Busra al-Sham in Syria's southern Daraa province before crossing the buffer zone into Sweida province.

BASHAR TALEB/AFP
BASHAR TALEB/AFP

People gather as a C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft drops humanitarian aid on the northern Gaza Strip on July 27, 2025.

Athit Perawongmetha/REUTERS
Athit Perawongmetha/REUTERS

A Buddhist monk sits next to his dog in a bomb shelter after Thailand and Cambodia exchanged heavy artillery amid their worst fighting in more than a decade, in Surin, Thailand, July 25, 2025.

ANWAR AMRO/AFP
ANWAR AMRO/AFP

A mourner holds up a rose and a portrait of renowned Lebanese musician and composer Ziad Rahbani as crowds gathered outside Khoury Hospital in Beirut's central Hamra district to bid him farewell before his funeral procession.

Alexander Ermochenko/REUTERS
Alexander Ermochenko/REUTERS

Participants release balloons during a ceremony held at the Alley of Angels on the day commemorating children killed in the region in the course of Russia-Ukraine military conflict, in Donetsk, July 27, 2025.

Eugene Hoshiko/AP
Eugene Hoshiko/AP

Participants carry a portable shrine, or mikoshi, into the sea during a purification rite at the annual Kurihama Sumiyoshi Shrine Festival at Kurihama, Yokosuka city, south of Tokyo Sunday, July 27, 2025.

Serhat Cetinkaya/Getty Images
Serhat Cetinkaya/Getty Images

A green circular crop field surrounded by golden wheat plains, where harvesters line up for collection during the final phase of the season at Altinova Agricultural Enterprise in Kadinhani district of Konya, Turkiye on July 22, 2025

YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP
YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP

Undressed mannequins are tied together and left behind as a clothing market closes in Jakarta on July 26, 2025.

Gaza's man-made famine: a visual breakdown Al Majalla - London
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Gaza's man-made famine: a visual breakdown

In Gaza, where nearly 60,000 people have been killed since October 2023 due to Israeli military operations, half a million individuals now stand on…

Al Majalla - London 29 July , 2025
Saudi Arabia's Cultural Houses will provide a place where creatives can refine, engage, and learn from leading figures. Albane Simon
Culture & Social Affairs

Saudi Arabia’s Cultural Houses: a new vision for public libraries

Saudi Arabia’s cultural renaissance is no accident. It reflects deliberate planning and a national vision informed by the Kingdom’s rich spatial and…

Jaber Muhammad Madkhali 29 July , 2025
Opinion

Loneliness and isolation: the hidden threat to global health

Around the world, an invisible threat is increasing the risk of disease, shortening lives and fraying the fabric of our communities. Between 2014 and…

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Chido Mpemba, and Vivek Murthy 29 July , 2025
Bedouin families who left Sweida take a shelter at a school in the village of El Sahoah in Deraa Governorate, Syria, July 28, 2025. Yamam Al Shaar / Reuters
Politics

Sweida violence: a good day for Israel, a bad day for Syria

President Ahmad al-Sharaa enjoyed a honeymoon of acceptance in the weeks and months after he led his fighters into Damascus, after defeating the…

Majed Kayali 29 July , 2025
Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen talks to the media as she arrives at the European headquarters for the EU-Western Balkans summit, in Brussels, on December 14, 2023. John Thys/AFP
Profiles

Standing up to Trump: Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen

When the Kingdom of Denmark took over the rotating presidency of the EU Council on 1 July, its Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was honest and open,…

Con Coughlin 29 July , 2025
Good to see that manners haven't died a death in Gaza Fares Garabet
Cartoons

Good to see that manners haven't died a death in Gaza

Fares Garabet 28 July , 2025
Israeli soldiers inside a military aircraft flying over the Gaza Strip on July 27, 2025. Israeli Defence Forces / AFP
Politics

Countering the Israeli quest for regional domination

Israel has always wanted to reshape the Middle East to serve its interests. It has tried to do so through domination rather than cooperation…

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 28 July , 2025
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Activists protest near the US Capitol on July 24, 2024, in Washington, DC. Activists staged multiple demonstrations near the Capitol to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington and Israel's war on Gaza. Alex Wong/ AFP
Politics

Americans are tiring of Israel. Will US policy follow?

01 September 2025

While the US public has long been supportive of Israel, its genocide in Gaza appears to have had a big effect, with most young Americans now outright hostile towards it

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy
Opinion

'The Voice of Hind Rajab' shows cries for justice are only getting louder

07 September 2025

A 24-minute standing ovation at the film premiere was more than a symbolic gesture of justice for Israel's murder of little Hind, but a heartfelt cry of real anguish over the ongoing genocide in Gaza

Samer Abou Hawwach
A portrait of a soldier in Beirut, Lebanon. 
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Politics

The Lebanese army can confront Hezbollah. Here's how.

02 September 2025

Lebanon's president and prime minister have a big decision to make: whether, and how, to use the army to disarm Hezbollah. Today's army can be trusted, but its task must be well thought through.

Bilal Saab
Al Majalla
Business & Economy

How Saudi Arabia is redefining the global mining map

06 September 2025

The Future Minerals Forum has become one of the world's most influential gatherings in the minerals sector, uniting stakeholders around the shared goal of building sustainable mineral supply chains

Faisal Faeq
Al Majalla
Culture & Social Affairs

Al Majalla’s Film Watch

03 September 2025

Every month, Al Majalla offers its take on the screen's newest releases, with the occasional dip into the archives to review an older classic.

Areej Jamal

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