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Saudi Arabia's Cultural Houses will provide a place where creatives can refine, engage, and learn from leading figures. Albane Simon
Culture & Social Affairs

Saudi Arabia’s Cultural Houses: a new vision for public libraries

Saudi Arabia’s cultural renaissance is no accident. It reflects deliberate planning and a national vision informed by the Kingdom’s rich spatial and…

Jaber Muhammad Madkhali 29 July , 2025
Opinion

Loneliness and isolation: the hidden threat to global health

Around the world, an invisible threat is increasing the risk of disease, shortening lives and fraying the fabric of our communities. Between 2014 and…

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Chido Mpemba, and Vivek Murthy 29 July , 2025
Bedouin families who left Sweida take a shelter at a school in the village of El Sahoah in Deraa Governorate, Syria, July 28, 2025. Yamam Al Shaar / Reuters
Politics

Sweida violence: a good day for Israel, a bad day for Syria

President Ahmad al-Sharaa enjoyed a honeymoon of acceptance in the weeks and months after he led his fighters into Damascus, after defeating the…

Majed Kayali 29 July , 2025
Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen talks to the media as she arrives at the European headquarters for the EU-Western Balkans summit, in Brussels, on December 14, 2023. John Thys/AFP
Profiles

Standing up to Trump: Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen

When the Kingdom of Denmark took over the rotating presidency of the EU Council on 1 July, its Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was honest and open,…

Con Coughlin 29 July , 2025
Good to see that manners haven't died a death in Gaza Fares Garabet
Cartoons

Good to see that manners haven't died a death in Gaza

Fares Garabet 28 July , 2025
Israeli soldiers inside a military aircraft flying over the Gaza Strip on July 27, 2025. Israeli Defence Forces / AFP
Politics

Countering the Israeli quest for regional domination

Israel has always wanted to reshape the Middle East to serve its interests. It has tried to do so through domination rather than cooperation…

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 28 July , 2025
Saudi Arabia's Stock Exchange (Tadawul) in the capital, Riyadh. AFP
Business & Economy

How Saudi Arabia is quietly becoming an important financial hub

In 2020, there were just 14 financial technology (fintech) companies in Saudi Arabia. Today, there is 261. In just five years, the sector has seen a…

Abdel-Rahman Ayas 28 July , 2025
Starlink executives are exploring whether a licence could be granted in Lebanon, but talks may have slowed in the country's political and legal morass. Shutterstock
Business & Economy

Can Starlink help rewrite Lebanon’s broken telecoms rulebook?

Lebanon is a land of necessary neighbourhood generators, patchy internet connections, entrepreneurial ideas, and effectively absent regulatory…

Abdulfattah Khattab 28 July , 2025
Opinion

In the nick of time, a Saudi investment corps lands in Damascus

No nation engulfed by war and internal strife has ever truly been saved by political or military agreements alone. Real salvation lies in economic…

Khaled Kassar 28 July , 2025
Opinion

To mend Syria, Damascus must match words with deeds

On paper, Damascus is striking the right tone in the aftermath of the recent violence in Sweida, which once again laid bare the deep fractures in…

Haid Haid 28 July , 2025
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Axel Rangel Garcia
Politics

As Sharaa steps into the White House, Syria steps into the US orbit

09 November 2025

In what could be a historic turning point in US-Syria relations, the new government in Damascus will likely join the international coalition against the Islamic State (IS)

Subhi Franjieh
Axel Rangel Garcia
Politics

Barbara Leaf on being the first US official to meet Ahmed Sharaa

10 November 2025

On Monday, the Syrian president shook hands with Trump at the White House. Speaking to Al Majalla, a former State Department official explains why this is a moment she could have never imagined.

Ibrahim Hamidi
AFP-Reuters-Eduardo Ramon
Politics

Zohran Mamdani becomes first Muslim mayor of New York

04 November 2025

The 34-year-old socialist's win is a seismic development, proving that tax rises for the rich to fund social programmes, and unwavering advocacy for Palestinian rights, are politically viable stances

Tarek Rashed
Details of the remains of Palestinians released by Israel are shown on a screen in order to help family members to identify their relatives, at the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on 18 October 2025. OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP
Politics

Closure denied: the agonising search for Gaza's vanished

05 November 2025

Those who are able to bury their dead are among the lucky. For others, not knowing the fate of their missing loved ones or receiving mutilated corpses impossible to identify adds insult to injury.

Salem Al Rayyes
Ewan White
Politics

How Trump reshaped the world

03 November 2025

Al Majalla examines key developments in the US and across the globe less than a year into Trump's second presidential term

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