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Moving from crisis to hope: Egypt’s economy in 2025 Eduardo Ramon
Business & Economy

Moving from crisis to hope: Egypt’s economy in 2025

For Egyptians, 2024 may be remembered for soaring prices and of trying to adapt to the difficult financial and monetary headwinds stoked by the…

Marcelle Nasr 04 January , 2025
Events in Syria and events in Marquez's mythical epic have many parallels Al Majalla
Culture & Social Affairs

‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, the fall of Assad, and the missing chapter

At the end of the 8th episode of the TV series One Hundred Years of Solitude, Úrsula—José Arcadio Buendía's companion in founding and building…

Samer Abou Hawwach 04 January , 2025
Opinion

IS in New Orleans? Trump’s retrenchment may have to hold

Suggestions that the terrorist responsible for New Year attack on New Orleans had links to Islamic State (IS) show that the threat posed by Islamist…

Con Coughlin 03 January , 2025
Opinion

The Arab world’s fortunes will only change when wealth is spread

The year 2025 could be one of maps, given the huge shifts of 2024. Changes were seen not only in terms of territorial gains and losses, but also in…

Houssam Itani 03 January , 2025
ملصق فيلم "أثر الأشباح".
Culture & Social Affairs

Victims become hunters in new film about torture in Syrian prisons

The film Ghost Trail is a thrilling spy movie that provides dramatic insight into one of the biggest global events of the year: the fall of Bashar al…

Areej Jamal 03 January , 2025
Netanyahu may cajole and send his wife, but Trump is no friend Andy Edwards
Politics

Netanyahu may cajole and send his wife, but Trump is no friend

On 2 December 2024, President-elect Donald Trump sat down for dinner with two members of Israel’s Netanyahu family. Neither were Benjamin, Israel’s…

Michael Horowitz 03 January , 2025
The struggle for Syria Aliaa Abou Khaddour
Politics

The struggle for Syria

Bashar al-Assad has been consigned to history, with the Assad family facing the inevitable judgment of time. Though the regime has collapsed, Syria…

Al Majalla - London 02 January , 2025
Opinion

The struggle for Syria from afar and from within

Bashar al-Assad has become a figure of the past, and the Assad family now stands in the court of history. Brutality cannot halt the march of time…

Ibrahim Hamidi 02 January , 2025
Rebel forces shoot in the air as they celebrate in the central Syrian city of Homs early on December 8, 2024, after they entered Syria's third city overnight on their way to deposing Bashar al-Assad. Aref Tammawi/AFP
Politics

The struggle for Syria after Assad

Bashar al-Assad has fallen. Syria has wrenched itself free of his family’s grip and life has reaffirmed some enduring truths: that the people will…

Al Majalla - London 02 January , 2025
Waving the flag adopted by the new Syrian rulers, as people celebrate the ousting of Bashar al-Assad from Damascus. Ammar Awad / Reuters
Politics

Israel’s actions in Syria are part of its regional ambitions

Finally, Syria is free. Its people are able to determine their own future for the first time in nearly half a century. But can the new authorities…

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 02 January , 2025
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Politics

A Houthi takeover of Bab al-Mandab cannot be tolerated

12 September 2026

The Iran-backed group's effective takeover of Yemen's western coast comes with serious regional and global implications. The world needs to act.

Alice Gower
Pete Reynolds
Politics

Inside Assad’s nuclear secrets

09 September 2026

Al Majalla reveals the structure of Syria's nuclear programme 19 years after Israel bombed the Al-Kibar reactor, detailing the involvement of other states and the assassinations that followed

Al Majalla - London
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
Al Majalla/Reuters
Politics

The murky origins of al-Qaeda explained

09 September 2026

Thousands of Muslim volunteers flocked to Afghanistan in 1979 to fight the Soviets in response to a rallying cry, aided by the largest covert operation in CIA history

Steve Hewitt
Susan Sarandon in Echo Chamber ANDREA MICONI
Culture & Social Affairs

Susan Sarandon on fear, freedom, and refusing to change

08 September 2026

The renowned American actress tells Al Majalla about her gnawing drive for justice at the Venice Film Festival, where her new film 'Echo Chamber' premiered

Leila Amar

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