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The Moroccan dirham emerges as an alternative currency in African markets Lina Jaradat
Business & Economy

The Moroccan dirham emerges as an alternative currency in African markets

A growing number of African states are exploring adopting regional currencies instead of the dollar, the euro, and the CFA franc for intra-African…

Mohamed Sharki 01 December , 2025
US President Donald Trump welcomes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the White House on 18 November 2025, in Washington, DC. Win McNamee / Getty
Politics

Saudi Arabia and the US: renewing a long partnership

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to Washington on 18 and 19 November was no routine visit—it marked the renewal and strengthening of an…

Al Majalla - London 30 November , 2025
US President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman watch a flight of F-35's and F-15's during a welcome ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, on 18 November 2025, in Washington. AP /Evan Vucci
Politics

No US-Saudi defence treaty yet, but a good first step

One of recent history’s most enduring lessons is that great, generational alliances are seldom built on handshakes alone. They survive when they are…

Abdullah F. Alrebh 30 November , 2025
US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman stand with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and others at the Saudi-US Investment Forum in Washington, DC. on 19 November, 2025. SPA
Politics

The full list of Saudi–US deals clinched in Washington

Saudi Arabia and the United States, along with several companies and institutions from both nations, signed a series of agreements and memoranda of…

Majalla - Washington 30 November , 2025
Opinion

Refashioning a Saudi-US partnership fit for the future

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to Washington in November was not the typical palm-pressing conglomeration of diplomatic niceties…

Ibrahim Hamidi 30 November , 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi attend a welcoming ceremony for participants of the BRICS summit in Kazan on 22 October 2024. Maxim Shemetov / POOL / AFP
Politics

Egypt's multipolar balancing act is paying off

A hot wind rolled in from the Mediterranean on 19 November. A few metres from the coast, a 330-tonne pressure vessel manufactured in St. Petersburg…

Amr Emam 30 November , 2025
The head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund, Kirill Dmitriev,‬ speaks to the media ahead of his meeting with the US delegation in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia‬, on 18 February 2025. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed
Profiles

Kirill Dmitriev: Russia oligarch-turned-Ukraine peace negotiator

The timely intervention of Russian financier Kirill Dmitriev has been crucial to US President Donald Trump’s latest diplomatic efforts to achieve a…

Con Coughlin 30 November , 2025
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Culture & Social Affairs

Al Majalla's Book Watch

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

Khodr Al Agha 30 November , 2025
Pope Leo XIV presides over the Holy Mass at the Volkswagen Arena, during his first apostolic journey, in Istanbul, Türkiye, on 29 November 2025. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Politics

Why Pope Leo XIV chose Türkiye as his first foreign trip

Pope Leo XIV, the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.5 billion Catholics and head of state of the Vatican, is on an official visit to Türkiye—the…

Omer Onhon 29 November , 2025
COP30 President Andre Correa do Lago gestures as the plenary session was interrupted following Colombia's  intervention at the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belém, Pará state, Brazil, on 22 November 2025. PABLO PORCIUNCULA / AFP
Business & Economy

COP30: discussions, delayed delivery and disappointment

It was appropriate that the 50,000 delegates at the world’s biggest annual climate change conference should this year descend on the Brazilian city…

Nazareth Seferian 29 November , 2025
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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
Al Majalla
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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