At the beginning of the year, Iraqi poet Dr Shawqi Abdul Amir was appointed director of the Paris-based Arab World Institute, capping a distinguished…
Lina Jaradat
Since the early days of its war, few in Gaza felt that the Israeli armed forces only wanted to terrorise Hamas. Most knew that the people of Gaza…
From climbing the greasy pole to the US Democratic convention
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Young boys play basketball at night on a playground of Harlem in New York City on August 14, 2024.
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Ballet students from warm up ahead of a public show in Kibera, Kenya, on August 14, 2024.
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Students take part in a quilt-folding competition during military-style training on a school sports field in Dongyang, in China's eastern Zhejiang province, on August 15, 2024.
Adem Altan/AFP
Turkish lawmakers fight each other over accusations regarding a jailed opposition deputy stripped of his parliamentary immunity. Two were injured.
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The Greek Orthodox church of Panagia Theotokos in the village of Ropoto near Trikala, central Greece. It leans over a mountainside after a landslide in 2012.
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Animated kites soar during the Tamil Nadu International Kite Festival on the outskirts of Chennai, India, on August 17, 2024.
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A Chicago police officer takes a picture of people posing with a mural of Democratic presidential nominee US Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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Teams take part in a traditional game called Panjat Pinang, climbing greased 7m tree poles to collect prizes at the top, as part of Indonesia's Independence Day celebrations in Jakarta.
Luis Tato/AFP
A rickshaw rider makes progress along a busy street in Old Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 17, 2024.
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The Super Blue Moon rises near the Colosseum in Rome, on August 19, 2024.
For at least 6,000 years, Egyptians have been building boats. We know this because the oldest pictures of boats ever found are Egyptian, on vases and…
Examining the Al Majalla archives from just the past three months unearths a diverse array of issues spanning the globe.From the resurgence of…
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Amsterdam's stock exchange is thought to be the world's oldest, dating back to 1602. Three centuries later, in 1900, European countries accounted for…
On 8 July 1974, the Supreme Court asked President Richard Nixon to hand over the unedited tapes of 64 conversations he had held at the White House…
The saying that “there are no winners in war” often holds true, but some still manage to turn dire situations to their advantage.A case in point is…
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