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Turkish drilling vessel Cagri Bey, which is set to conduct Turkiye's first deep-sea drilling operation docks in the Indian Ocean near the Mogadishu sea port in Mogadishu, Somalia April 10, 2026. Reuters / Feisal Omar
Business & Economy

Türkiye’s proposed maritime bill risks reigniting old rivalries

Türkiye is drafting legislation that could reignite competition over drilling, mining, and fishing rights in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean…

Amr Emam 01 June , 2026
Moroccan scholar Mustapha Rajwan
Culture & Social Affairs

Mustapha Rajwan: the greatest service to a text is to interpret it

In nearly ten books devoted to rhetoric, narrative and poetics, Moroccan scholar Mustapha Rajwan has explored how texts persuade, imagine, and…

Abeer Younis 01 June , 2026
Opinion

Why Iraq is now the Middle East’s persistent headache

As the shaky between the United States and Iran continues to hold, there are growing concerns about the role Iraq is increasingly playing across a…

Saud Al-Masaud 01 June , 2026
When peace struggles to shape up Fares Garabet
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When peace struggles to shape up

Fares Garabet 01 June , 2026
Opinion

Suez and Hormuz: more intersections than we think

After the Suez War, Winston Churchill was asked whether he would have acted as Prime Minister Anthony Eden had done over the 1956 conflict. “I would…

Ibrahim Hamidi 31 May , 2026
Raúl Castro was Cuban president from 2006 to 2018, having served as Minister for the Armed Forces from 1959 to 2008. AFP
Profiles

Raúl Castro: the soldier who made Fidel’s revolution endure

Cuba’s quieter Castro brother, Raúl, built the military and institutional architecture that allowed the revolution to outlast charisma, crisis, and…

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra 31 May , 2026
A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter affiliated with Iran's separatist Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), mans a position north of Kirkuk, in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region. Safin Hamid/AFP
Politics

Why Iran’s militant Kurds stayed out of the US-Iran war

In the first weeks after the US-Israel war against Iran, something unusual was happening in Erbil’s car dealerships. Representatives of Iranian…

Alex Vatanka 31 May , 2026
Opinion

When the Palestinian vacuum becomes a Jordanian question

The Palestinian question no longer ends with the failure of the two-state solution, the death of Oslo, or even the rise of an extremist Israeli right…

Malek Al Athamna 30 May , 2026
Almost overnight, sulphuric acid became something closely watched by copper producers, fertiliser manufacturers, and mining companies. Sara Padovan
Business & Economy

How China turned an obscure chemical into a tool of influence

Under normal circumstances, a substance such as sulphuric acid attracts little attention outside industrial circles. Few people follow its price…

Abdel-Rahman Ayas 30 May , 2026
People view the 23-foot Lamp Bear outdoor sculpture of a teddy bear by artist Urs Fischer on 8 April 2011 in New York City. Getty Images via AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Can collections alone define an exhibition’s identity and meaning?

Placing the works of Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat beside those of Andy Warhol, a figure of immense influence in New York’s art scene and a…

Farouk Yousif 30 May , 2026
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Iran war deepens cracks in America’s alliances

31 August 2026

The sense that the US may be less committed to its allies' security is prompting a rethink of long-held assumptions, much to the delight of China and Russia

Christopher Phillips
An aerial view shows houses lying deluged in sludge after flash floods in Devighat, Bidur Municipality, Nepal's Nuwakot district, on 27 August 2026. PRABIN RANABHAT / AFP
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Nepal pays the price for climate change

02 September 2026

Melting glaciers and devastating floods are hitting the Himalayas

Bibek Bhandari
Noelia de Alda
Politics

How Gaza turned US public opinion against Israel

30 August 2026

Supporting Israel used to help politicians get elected, but with Americans far more critical of Tel Aviv's influence on US policy, it has now become a liability at the ballot box

Assal Rad
A woman cools off under a mist sprayer during the annual street music festival 'Fete de la Musique' while taking part in a heatwave in Bordeaux, southwestern France on 21 June 2026. ROMAIN PERROCHEAU / AFP
Business & Economy

As the world grows hotter, a 'cooling economy' emerges

30 August 2026

It is not just a fancy name for the air-conditioning industry, but an intricate system that begins with power stations and extends to the design of buildings and cities

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
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Alena Jabarine on Palestine advocacy in Germany

01 September 2026

The Palestinian-German author speaks to Al Majalla about the challenges facing Palestinian voices in Germany and how she engages German readers from within their own cultural and political context

Mohammed Magdy

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