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79th Venice Film Festival - Photocall for "Freedom on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom" out of competition - Venice, Italy, September 7, 2022. Director Evgeny Afineevsky and cast members Nataliya Nagorna and Hanna Zaitseva attend. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane

As Conflict Rages, Ukraine War Documentary is Rushed to Venice Front Line

While Venice was rolling out its red carpet for the opening of its Film Festival a week ago, director Evgeny Afineevsky was racing to finish his…

07 September , 2022
Street food vendor Warunee Deejai cooks lunch for customers in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. In the six months since Russia invaded Ukraine, the fallout from the war has had huge effects on the global economy. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Business & Economy

Russia’s War at 6 Months: A Global Economy in Growing Danger

Martin Kopf needs natural gas to run his family’s company, Zinkpower GmbH, which rustproofs steel components in western Germany. Zinkpower’s…

AP 21 August , 2022
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
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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
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Politics

Syria's new post-sanctions test

22 December 2025

Damascus finally gets breathing room after the US repealed its draconian Caesar sanctions, but it can't exhale just yet. Al Majalla explains why.

Haid Haid
Opinion

Israeli gas and the crafting of a 'new Middle East'

22 December 2025

The US is poised to use Israeli gas as a lever to keep Iran on the backfoot following its regional setback, and it could even use it to undercut Russia's economy

Ibrahim Hamidi
Women and children at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to el-Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan, in January 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed Zakaria
Politics

After el-Fasher: the trajectory of war in Sudan

16 November 2025

Washington seems to have changed its tone after the RSF committed atrocities in October, putting increasing pressure on the foreign backers of a paramilitary that now controls Darfur. What next?

Amgad Fareid Eltayeb
Despite a new president, a new prime minister, a new government, and a new central bank governor, what has actually changed after Lebanon's economic collapse? Lina Jaradat
Business & Economy

A state in crisis: Lebanon’s struggle to restore financial stability 

20 December 2025

Following the appointment of a new president, Lebanon has struggled to come to terms with the deep-rooted challenges of its financial collapse

Toufic Chanbour
Culture & Social Affairs

This year in film: landmark moments across platforms

22 December 2025

Al Majalla looks back at a memorable and haunting year in film, with Kaouther Ben Hania's The Voice of Hind Rajab one of 2025's most powerful works

Wael Said

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