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Business & Economy

How a skilled workforce and robust private sector keep Bahrain ahead

Bahrain is small, both in terms of population and geographical size, but the nation of islands has secured an important cultural position in the Gulf…

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 27 May , 2023
Kissinger earned a Nobel peace prize for his efforts to negotiate an end to the Vietnam war. Al Majalla takes a look at his incredible career and legacy. Péter Csuth
Profiles

Henry Kissinger, US foreign policy titan, dies at 100

Almost 50 years after leaving office, few politicians in modern American history have remained so relevant to world politics.Henry Kissinger was,…

Sami Moubayed 27 May , 2023
A new surface-to-surface ballistic missile called Khaibar with a range of 2,000 km, unveiled by Iran, is seen in Tehran, Iran, May 25, 2023. Reuters
Politics

Israeli escalation with Iran amid Arab truce

As governments across the Middle East continue to ride a wave of engagement and normalised ties with former adversaries, the era of the Arab Spring…

Charles Lister 27 May , 2023
In an interview with Iraqi writer, poet, and translator Younis Tawfik, he talks about migrant literature, writing and translating in Italian, and the effect of his best-known works. Oriana Fenwick
Culture & Social Affairs

Iraqi writer Younis Tawfik: Italian is my language and my homeland

During his many years living in Italy, Iraqi-born Younis Tawfik has translated and penned many Italian-language novels that have left their mark on…

Youssouf Waqqas 27 May , 2023
Opinion

The Belgorod breach is a warning to Russia on Ukraine’s capabilities

From a military perspective, it would be wrong to underestimate the significance of the operation conducted by forces opposed to Vladimir Putin in…

Houssam Itani 27 May , 2023
Oil reserves in Sudan and South Sudan remain underutilised, largely due to war. Meanwhile, lack of stability has curbed potential foreign investment in East Africa's oil fields. Ewan White
Business & Economy

The massive untapped potential of East Africa’s oil reserves

According to data from the US Energy Information Administration, proven oil reserves of Sudan and South Sudan equal 5bn barrels, but production has…

Faisal Faeq 26 May , 2023
G7 leaders pose on a boat in Hiroshima. AFP
Politics

G7: Valuable forum or outdated irrelevance?

The annual G7 summit ended with the usual collective statements of unity. The world’s seven most powerful industrialised democracies this time…

Christopher Phillips 26 May , 2023
Beirut’s slow and catastrophic collapse Eduardo Ramon
Culture & Social Affairs

Beirut’s slow and catastrophic collapse

A sickness has spread over Lebanon. People now live in isolated enclaves - by region, group, city, neighbourhood, or village. Society had gradually…

Mohamed abi Samra 26 May , 2023

‘Queen of Rock and Roll’ Tina Turner dies at 83

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Tina Turner performs during her world tour 87 at the summer open air concert in Hamburg, Germany July 3, 1987. Turner has died at the age of 83 on 24 May 2023. She died after a long illness in her home in Kuesnacht in Switzerland.

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Flowers and messages are seen layed outside the estate of late singer Tina Turner following the announcement of her death, in Kusnacht on May 25, 2023.

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Tina Turner, left, and Lionel Richie pose with a total of five awards between them, at the Grammy Awards show in Los Angeles on Feb. 27, 1985.

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AFP

A mother and daughter lay flowers outside the entrance to the estate of late singer Tina Turner following the announcement of her death, in Kusnacht on May 25, 2023.

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EPA

US singer Tina Turner performs on stage at the O2 World in Berlin during her concert, late 26 January 2009 (reissued 24 May 2023).

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EPA

Photographs of singer Tina Turner in the exhibition 'Tina Turner: A Journey to the future' by photographer Bob Gruen at the Museum of Image and Sound (MIS) in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 24 May 2023.

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AP

Jessica Rawls of Houston blows a kiss to a portrait of the late singer Tina Turner at her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Wednesday, May 24, 2023, in Los Angeles.

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AP

Singer Tina Turner, right, arrives with Oprah Winfrey for the opening night of "Tina - The Tina Turner Musical" at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, in New York.

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Flowers lie across US singer Tina Turner’s Hollywood Walk of Fame Star in Los Angeles, California, USA, 24 May 2023.

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AP

Tina Turner performs in a concert in Cologne, Germany on Jan. 14, 2009.

Cars burnt in an attack by Israeli settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Hawara. Reuters
Politics

With the rise in settler violence, are Israel's far-right groups actually militias?

When hundreds of extremist settlers rampaged through the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Hawara in February in the wake of the murder of two…

Ahmed Maher 25 May , 2023
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Politics

Iran’s waning influence

27 June 2025

Our July issue features in-depth articles and expert analyses exploring the future of Iran's influence and the long-term reverberations for the region

Al Majalla - London
Emergency workers check the damage caused to a building from an Iranian missile strike in Beersheba in southern Israel on June 24, 2025. John Wessels / AFP
Business & Economy

Counting the cost of the Israel-Iran war

24 June 2025

The recent Israel-Iran war is not just a regional flashpoint; it is a mirror reflecting the fragility and interdependence of the modern global economy

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
Adrián Astorgano
Politics

Shaky Israel-Iran ceasefire points to unfinished business

24 June 2025

What Trump has dubbed the '12-Day War' could be just the opening salvo of a much longer conflict

Michael Horowitz
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Science & Technology

Behind the bombs: the Israel-Iran cyberwar

25 June 2025

Images of rocket trails, explosions, and destruction were broadcast worldwide, but a quieter war in cyberspace was also being waged, and it was no less important

Marco Mossad
Yusra Naim
Profiles

Zohran Mamdani: New York City's first Muslim mayor?

27 June 2025

His supporters say his mayoral primary victory could be an inflexion point in American politics that shows the electoral viability of left-wing policies and support for Palestinian rights

Con Coughlin

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