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Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather of cinema.

Masters of Great Epics

Whoever has not seen the movie Avatar on the largest cinema screens – either because he was young in 2009 when it came out for its first showings, or…

Mohammed Rouda 20 August , 2022
This month the Locarno Film Festival's curtains open for the 75th year from the 3rd to the 13th of August.

Locarno Film Festival 2022 – a Cinematic Center of the World

The Locarno Film Festival is the most important film festival in Switzerland and one of the most prestigious film festivals in the whole of Europe…

Luisa Markides 12 August , 2022
Chinese President Xi Jinping and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa attend the 2018 Beijing Summit of The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation - Round Table Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China September 4, 2018. (REUTERS/File Photo)
Business & Economy

Secrets of China’s Economic Statecraft in Africa

The role of African governments in the economic development of their countries is crucial, which is why they tend to be centered by foreign…

Anzetse Were 04 June , 2022
Oh, what fun we had, back in the eighteenth century! (Blind man's bluff 1803)
Culture & Social Affairs

Fun Loving Criminals?

Bath is a small gem of a city in the west of England, named after hot springs which exist nowhere else in the British Isles – the other spas are all…

Bryn Haworth 13 May , 2022
Protests on Labor Day in Paris, France. (Getty)
Politics

French Elite Are from Mars, Youth Are from Venus

It is seemingly possible to borrow the famous headline of the well-known John Gray book “Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus” to describe the…

Sama Mamdouh El Sheikh 26 March , 2022
People communicate using sign language outside Pakistan's first mobile restaurant, staffed entirely by deaf workers, in Islamabad, Pakistan February 23, 2022. REUTERS/Salahuddin

Pakistan's First Deaf-Staffed Food Truck Empowers Hearing Impaired

The bright yellow truck with a logo of a pair of spectacles perched over a luxurious mustache looks like many other food trucks that attract hungry…

24 February , 2022
Illustrated by Jeannette Khouri
Politics

Olaf Scholz: From 'Scholzomat' to 'Robin Hood'

Olaf Scholz- nicknamed "Scholzomat" for his robotic public appearances- has put his old robot-like, technocratic image behind him and secured an…

Majalla 12 February , 2022
Arisa Go and Akito Watabe, of Japan, lead their team in during the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Beijing Olympics Open With Nod to Year of the Tiger

Days after quietly ringing in the Chinese New Year, Beijing is celebrating the Year of the Tiger on the Olympic stage. The tiger — a symbol of…

AP 04 February , 2022
Dawlat Khaleel modelling one of her designs. (Courtesy of Dawlat Khaleel)
Culture & Social Affairs

From Homs with Love

Beyond the simple meaning of a place of residence, “home” is often synonymous with all the nostalgic feelings that carry us to the beginnings whether…

Amany M. Salem 21 January , 2022
Businessman Mohammed Ayachi Ajroudi
Politics

A Candidate of Tunisian Origin Aspires to Sit on Élysée Throne

After consultations and intense insistence by French elites representing several sectors of the French people of various cultures, religions and…

Mustafa El-Dessouki 18 December , 2021
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Qatar's Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (C) reviews a military honour guard with Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) during a welcoming ceremony in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on January 31, 2019. GREG BAKER / AFP
Politics

Pivot to China? Gulf states mull options after Doha strike

12 September 2025

Israel's attack in Qatar erodes Gulf states' trust in the US and serves as a stark reminder that they cannot depend on American security guarantees

Xiaotong Yang
A Hezbollah flag is placed in front of the shrine of Shamoun al-Safa, built within a castle in the village of Shamaa in southern Lebanon's Tyre governorate, on January 31, 2025, that was heavily damaged by Israeli bombing. Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP
Business & Economy

Trump Economic Zone plan raises eyebrows in Lebanon

11 September 2025

Many Lebanese see the project as a demographic one with economic dressings aimed at expelling the country's southern population from their lands

Souraya Chahine
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa Al Majalla
Politics

From Idlib to New York: Sharaa’s winding road the UN

12 September 2025

From the plains of Idlib to the presidential palace in Damascus and now the UN headquarters in Manhattan, Al Majalla traces the Syrian president's journey to get to this historic moment

Ibrahim Hamidi
Opinion

'The Voice of Hind Rajab' shows cries for justice are only getting louder

07 September 2025

A 24-minute standing ovation at the film premiere was more than a symbolic gesture of justice for Israel's murder of little Hind, but a heartfelt cry of real anguish over the ongoing genocide in Gaza

Samer Abou Hawwach
Egyptian writer May Telmissany poses during a portrait session held on April 15, 2014, in Paris, France. Ulf Andersen/Getty
Culture & Social Affairs

May Telmissany: writing is an act of resistance against the ugliness of the world

14 September 2025

The acclaimed Egyptian writer talks love, betrayal, autobiography, and the lack of Arab literary identity

El-Sayed Hussein

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