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A still from the movie 'Perfect Days'. Alamy
Culture & Social Affairs

'Perfect Days' shows how a quiet life can have bold ambitions

Renowned German filmmaker Wim Wenders has enjoyed an illustrious career with masterpieces such as Alice in the Cities, Wings of Desire, and The…

Samer Abou Hawwach 22 March , 2024
Officials celebrate the first public offering of Aramco on the stock market in Riyadh, December 11, 2019. AP
Business & Economy

How Saudi Aramco became the world's biggest oil company

Aramco has long been one of the main pillars of Saudi Arabia's economy. The industry it leads transformed the country into a powerhouse for oil…

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 22 March , 2024
Britain's Foreign Secretary Jack Straw (L) meets with Iranian foreign ministry official Mohsen Aminzadeh at Tehran's Mehrabad airport 09 October 2002. AFP
Documents & Memoirs

Khaddam Files: US-Iran backchannels ahead of Iraq invasion

When Syria’s former Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam left for Paris in 2005, he took reams of papers, reports, notes, and files with him.A trusted…

Ibrahim Hamidi 22 March , 2024
Who's in charge? America faces real leadership crisis
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Who's in charge? America faces real leadership crisis

Fares Garabet 21 March , 2024
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi show signed declarations after their summit with the leaders of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Greece, and Italy in Cairo on 17 March, 2024. AFP
Business & Economy

Why so generous? Lifting the veil on Europe's aid package to Egypt

Europe is offering Egypt a generous aid package of €7.4bn.While the new package is a drop in the ocean of Cairo's economic needs, it demonstrates the…

Amr Emam 21 March , 2024
Opinion

Gaza proves Iran is all talk but no action

The discrepancy between Iranian words and actions has become even more evident in the aftermath of Israel's war on Gaza.From the outset of Israel's…

Alia Mansour 21 March , 2024
The leader of Chega's right-wing party, Andre Ventura (2L), holds a press conference with other party members following his meeting with the Portuguese president at Belem Palace in Lisbon on March 18, 2024. AFP
Politics

Why the rise of the far right in Europe isn't so straightforward

Portugal has just become the latest European country in which the far right has made political inroads, with the Chega party coming in third in March…

Lina Khatib 21 March , 2024
The Kurdish leader was party to secret talks with the Americans in the run-up to the US invasion of Iraq. In part 2 of a 7-part series, Al Majalla reveals for the first time what he told the Syrians. Al Majalla
Documents & Memoirs

Khaddam Files: Barzani briefs al-Assad on CIA visit

When Syria’s former Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam left for Paris in 2005, he took reams of papers, reports, notes, and files with him.For…

Ibrahim Hamidi 21 March , 2024

Ramadan, volcanoes and more

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People gather to watch as molten lava flows out from a fissure on the Reykjanes peninsula north of the evacuated town of Grindavik, western Iceland on March 16, 2024.

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Saint Patrick's Day Parade celebration is held on 5th Avenue, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, United States on March 16, 2024.

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People gather to break their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in the courtyard of Al-Azhar Mosque on March 17, 2024 in Cairo, Egypt.

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Balinese men cover their bodies with mud during mud bathing tradition or locally known as Mebuug Buugan after Nyepi, The Balinese Day of Silence, in a mangrove area at Kedonganan Village, Badung, Bali, Indonesia, on March 12, 2024.

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The Soyuz 2.1a booster rocket with the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft is installed on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, March 18, 2024.

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A view of the Moon over the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkiye, on March 17, 2024.

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AFP

An artwork by artist Chavis Marmol shows a Tesla 3 car crushed by a nine-ton Olmec-inspired head in Mexico City on March 13, 2024.

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Muslim devotees offer night prayers at Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta on March 11, 2024, marking the start of Islam's holy fasting month of Ramadan.

Opinion

Putin's election win dims prospect of Ukraine war resolution

Any prospect of the Ukrainian conflict being resolved within the next year has been reduced considerably as a consequence of Russian President…

Con Coughlin 20 March , 2024
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Politics

Attacks on Iran make a nuclear bomb more likely

20 June 2025

Iran's nuclear programme is damaged, but its determination is heightened

Eric Brewer
Michelle Thompson.
Business & Economy

What would happen if Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz?

18 June 2025

The strait carries up to 20% of the world's oil exports at around 20 million barrels of oil each day. Any closure could cost the global economy greatly, even if only for a short time.

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi
A demonstrator holds a picture of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, while gathering with others during a rally in solidarity with the government against Israel's attacks on Iran on June 14, 2025. ATTA KENARE / AFP
Politics

Iran is further from regime change than Israel thinks

17 June 2025

Israel sees an opportunity to eliminate a strategic regional rival, but the future course of events primarily hinges on what Trump decides to do next

Houssam Itani
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses Iranians on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (portrait), in Tehran on June 4, 2025. KHAMENEI.IR / AFP
Profiles

Ali Khamenei: the guardian of Iran's strategic patience doctrine

21 June 2025

For decades, Iran's supreme leader—first Khomeini, then Khamenei—pursued a strategy of backing regional militias to fight Israel, but with the 'resistance axis' in tatters, Iran is left to fight alone

Arash Azizi
Eduardo Ramon
Politics

How Israel pulled off its unprecedented strike on Iran

18 June 2025

Years of painstaking intelligence work went into the operation that activated vast networks of operatives and involved multiple layers of subterfuge

Michael Horowitz

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