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Europe pushes Ukraine to keep fighting
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Europe pushes Ukraine to keep fighting

Fares Garabet 27 November , 2025

Tokyo sunsets, frozen forests and more from the world

Philip FONG / AFP
Philip FONG / AFP

People are seen on the beach as Mount Fuji is seen in the background from the Inage Seaside Park in Chiba city, a suburb of Tokyo during evening hour on 19 November 2025.

AP / Michael Probst
AP / Michael Probst

A road leads through a frozen forest in the Taunus region near Frankfurt, Germany, on 21 November 2025.

Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP
Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP

A Palestinian man carries a young boy on his shoulders during a film screening and children's entertainment event on the ruins of the Beach Services Sports Club in Al-Shatee refugee camp, west of Gaza City, on 23 November 2025.

Eyad BABA / AFP
Eyad BABA / AFP

Displaced Palestinian fishermen spread their nets on the beach in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on 20 November 2025.

REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier
REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier

French firefighters attend an evacuation exercise on the C1 urban cable car agency, which will connect Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, Limeil-Brevannes, Valenton and Creteil, in Limeil-Brevannes near Paris, France, on 20 November 2025.

REUTERS / Toby Melville
REUTERS / Toby Melville

Deer walk through undergrowth during cold weather in Richmond Park, west London, Britain, on 21 November 2025.

CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP
CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP

Farmers pull rice seedlings for planting at a paddy field in Lhoknga, Aceh province, on 20 November 2025.

 Mahmud Turkia / AFP
Mahmud Turkia / AFP

Libyan men in traditional costumes ride horses during a Fantasia show in the coastal city of Zliten on 21 November 2025.

REUTERS / Alet Pretorius
REUTERS / Alet Pretorius

People take part in a silent lie-down during a nationwide shutdown to ask the government to declare gender-based violence and femicide a national disaster in Pretoria, South Africa, on 21 November 2025.

Arun SANKAR / AFP
Arun SANKAR / AFP

A fisherman casts his net in the waters of river Yamuna laden with polluted foam, on a smoggy morning in New Delhi on 20 November 2025.

Gulf non-oil exports are doing more, but have more to do Al Majalla
Business & Economy

Gulf non-oil exports are doing more, but have more to do

After more than 70 years of earning almost all their money from oil, recent data on exports from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries show a…

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 26 November , 2025
Why Iran-backed militias did well in Iraq's elections Axel Rangel García
Politics

Why Iran-backed militias did well in Iraq's elections

The outcome of Iraq’s parliamentary elections last week demonstrates the shifting threat from the Iranian-backed ٍShiite militias operating in Iraq…

Elizabeth Tsurkov 25 November , 2025
War robs the global economy of trillions Al Majalla
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War robs the global economy of trillions

In 2024, the global economic toll of violence climbed to $19.1tn—a drastic increase of $717bn from the previous year. This surge coincided with the…

Al Majalla - London 25 November , 2025
Go Nagai with a 'Grendizer' poster
 AL MAJALLA/ AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

50 years on, 'Grendizer' still stirs Arab hearts

In October, Grendizer turned 50. Yet the spacefaring robot remains as youthful and unchanging as he was when his first episode aired on Japan’s Fuji…

Shadi Alaa Aldin 25 November , 2025
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) looks on during a meeting with US Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll in Kyiv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 20 November 2025. AFP
Politics

Trump presents Ukraine with a ‘very tough choice’

Ukraine faces a difficult decision in the days ahead as the Trump administration pushes the country to embrace a 28-point peace plan that would see…

Sam Skove and John Haltiwanger 25 November , 2025
US President Donald Trump greets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, DC on 18 November 2025. SAUL LOEB / AFP
Politics

The promise of expanded US-Saudi ties

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to Washington, DC in November marked a pivotal moment in the 80-year relationship between the United…

Brian Katulis 25 November , 2025
Opinion

Netanyahu is the key obstacle to Syria’s stability

The relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States is among the most enduring and strategically significant in the Middle East. Yet Crown…

Alia Mansour 24 November , 2025
Opinion

Riyadh breathes new life into resolving Sudan's war

Despite the thousands killed, millions displaced, and entire cities reduced to rubble, Sudan's war hasn't grabbed the same headlines as the wars in…

Ibrahim Hamidi 24 November , 2025
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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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