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Science & Technology

Is Starlink the key to undercutting Iran's regime?

Data collected by the global internet monitoring organisation NetBlocks indicates that the internet blackout during the recent large anti-government…

Marco Mossad 17 January , 2026
Egyptian novelist Salwa Bakr: literature is born of questions
Culture & Social Affairs

Egyptian novelist Salwa Bakr: literature is born of questions

At the end of November, Egyptian novelist and writer Salwa Bakr became the first laureate of the BRICS Literature Award, crowning a literary career…

El-Sayed Hussein 17 January , 2026
Opinion

Iran's regime may not be falling, but it is fading

Almost no one would shed a tear if Iran’s theocratic, autocratic regime were to fall following the nationwide January 2026 protests, but most are…

Omer Onhon 16 January , 2026
The UN is dead: Chemillier-Gendreau on the collapse of international law Axel Rangel Garcia
Politics

The UN is dead: Chemillier-Gendreau on the collapse of international law

French jurist Monique Chemillier-Gendreau has devoted her career to international law and state theory. In May last year, she appeared before the…

Elie Kossaifi 16 January , 2026
Field Marshal Asim Munir Asim Munir laying a wreath at the Martyrs' Memorial during a guard of honor review ceremony at General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on 21 May 2025.
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Politics

Pakistan emerges as a Middle East power broker 

Since its inception in 1947, Pakistan’s military has played an active role in the Arab world and the wider Middle East. This engagement echoes the…

Kamal Alam 16 January , 2026
A student simulates the drilling process as part of SADA's training programme.
 Saudi Arabian Drilling Academy
Business & Economy

Rigged and ready: SADA nurtures the Saudi oil engineers of tomorrow

Almost ten years after the genesis of the idea for the Saudi Arabian Drilling Academy (SADA), the training facility is fully realised and motoring in…

Faisal Faeq 16 January , 2026
Opinion

Can Iran and the US find an off-ramp to avert war?

Ever since the latest wave of anti-government protests swept Iran at the start of the year, US President Donald Trump has deliberately given the…

Con Coughlin 15 January , 2026
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Culture & Social Affairs

Al Majalla's Book Watch

The Arab world has a vibrant and rich literary scene. Al Majalla picks out some choice titles in our fortnightly round-up of the latest Arabic books…

Khodr Al Agha 15 January , 2026
Trump throws peace to the wind
Cartoons

Trump throws peace to the wind

Fares Garabet 14 January , 2026
Trump’s war on CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood Andrei Cojocaru
Politics

Trump’s war on CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood

On 13 January, the US designated the Muslim Brotherhood organisations in Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan as “terrorist” groups. Tuesday's move came weeks…

Abdullah F. Alrebh 14 January , 2026
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Business & Economy

The tiny waterway that 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
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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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