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The New Safavids
Politics

The New Safavids

When Ismail al-Safavi came from Anatolia and occupied Tabriz from 907 AH to 1502, he declared himself a Shah and issued the first royal command…

Gamal Abd El-Maboud 17 August , 2021
President Joe Biden speaks from the Treaty Room in the White House on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, about the withdrawal of the remainder of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. (Andrew Harnik/Pool/Abaca Press/TNS)
Politics

Will Biden Invite Afghanistan to His Democracy Summit?

The White House will soon be sending invitations to world leaders for its “Summit of Democracy,” currently scheduled for Dec. 9 and 10. It promises…

Eli Lake 14 August , 2021
File Photo of Mariam Taha Thompson.
Politics

Confessions of Lebanese-American Translator Who Spied for Hezbollah

Mariam Taha Thompson, a 62-year-old Lebanese-American who was a contract Arabic translator with the American forces in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria,…

Mohammad Ali Salih 14 August , 2021
Saudi Stock Market index has jumped by 30% from the beginning of 2021 until the beginning of August. (Photo: Reuters)
Business & Economy

Saudi Banks Thriving

At the end of July, Saudi banks posted their results in the second quarter for the current year (April through June 2021). The Q 2 earnings are 10…

Motasem Al Felou 14 August , 2021
This photo taken on August 4, 2021 shows a laboratory technician wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) working on samples to be tested for the Covid-19 coronavirus at the Fire Eye laboratory in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province. (Photo by STR / AFP)
Science & Technology

Calls for Independent Coalition-led Probe on Origins of COVID-19

More than a year and a half into a global pandemic that has caused at least four million deaths, the world is still debating two competing hypotheses…

Thomas J. Bollyky, Yanzhong Huang 14 August , 2021

World in Photos

World in Photos

An Algerian woman inspects the damage at her home due to forest fires in the Ait Daoud area of northern Algeria, on August 13, 2021. - Firefighters finally made headway against wildfires that have raged across northern Algeria for days but, as nationwide prayers were held for the dead, anger grew that the country was so ill-prepared. (Photo by Ryad KRAMDI / AFP)

World in Photos

This handout picture released by Turkey's IHH humanitarian aid group on August 12, 2021 shows a car floating in water in Kastamonu, after flash floods swept across several Black Sea regions. - Heavy storms descended on Turkey's northern stretches just as rescuers reported bringing hundreds of wildfires that have killed eight people since late July under near total control in the south. (Photo by Handout / IHH / AFP)

World in Photos

Activists of the Punjab Contractual Teachers Union protest against the state government to get job regularisation and the increase of salaries, in Amritsar on August 14, 2021. (Photo by NARINDER NANU / AFP)

World in Photos

Internally displaced school teacher wearing a burqa from Takhar province, who identified y her first name, Nilofar, left, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press inside her tent in a public park in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. In a lightning advance over the past several days, the Taliban now control more than two-thirds of the country, just two weeks before the U.S. plans to withdraw its last troops, and are slowly closing in on the capital, Kabul. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

World in Photos

A young Syrian girl stands by a water puddle caused by torrential seasonal rain flooding the "New Life" camp for the internally displaced north of Aleppo, by the border with Turkey, on August 13, 2021. (Photo by Bakr ALKASEM / AFP)

World in Photos

(From R) Paris Saint-Germain's Argentinian midfielder Leandro Paredes, Paris Saint-Germain's Argentinian forward Angel Di Maria, Paris Saint-Germain's Argentinian forward Lionel Messi and Paris Saint-Germain's Argentinian forward Mauro Icardi attend a training session at the Camp des Loges Paris Saint-Germain football club's training ground in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on august 13, 2021. (Photo by Bertrand GUAY / AFP)

Part of the protests that erupted last July in Khuzestan, Iran.
Culture & Social Affairs

Protest Movement in Ahwaz “Fire Under the Ashes”

Since last month, angry and frustrated Ahwazi Arabs of Iran have been protesting deliberate water shortage, deteriorating living conditions, and…

Amany M. Salem 13 August , 2021
An Iranian Kurdish Peshmerga member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) inspects damage at the party headquarters in Koy Sanjaq, 100 kilometers east of the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region Erbil, on September 12, 2018, after it was hit days earlier by an Iranian rocket attack. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP via Getty Images)
Politics

Tehran’s Killing Machine to Get Rid of Influential Opponents

A prominent member in the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), which is the oldest Kurdish party in the country, denounced the assassination of…

Jiwan Soz 13 August , 2021
A handout photo made available by the press service of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry shows Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) welcomes Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) during their meeting in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 15 July 2021. Sergei Lavrov and Wang Yi arrived to Tashkent to attend the two-day International Conference 'Central and South Asia: Regional Connectivity. Challenges and Opportunities'. (EPA/RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY PRESS SERVICE HANDOUT)
Politics

A Deepening Alliance of Convenience

Russia-China military cooperation continues to deepen. On August 9th the two sides kicked off five-day-long joint military exercises in China’s…

Maia Otarashvili 13 August , 2021
A scene from the play “Of Lovers” performed at Prince Taz Palace in Cairo, Egypt. (Photo by Seif Ashraf/Courtesy of Director Hani Affifi)
Culture & Social Affairs

“Of Lovers”

On the premises of one of the most enchanting Mamluk Palaces, songs of Star of the Orient Om Kulthoum, intertwined with pearls of wisdom from Al Imam…

Amira el Noshokaty 13 August , 2021
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Politics

Iran’s waning influence

27 June 2025

Our July issue features in-depth articles and expert analyses exploring the future of Iran's influence and the long-term reverberations for the region

Al Majalla - London
Lina Jaradat
Culture & Social Affairs

Gaza’s ‘death trap’ aid centres: a real-life Hunger Games

02 July 2025

Israel's commandeering of aid distribution in Gaza forces starving Palestinians to run the gauntlet at centres with biometric monitoring systems, armed security, and life-or-death hazards

Hala Al-Naji
People gather to celebrate after Lebanese parliament elects army chief Joseph Aoun as the new president, on January 9, 2025, in Al-Aaishiyah, Lebanon. Ramiz Dallah/Getty
Politics

Lebanon’s second chance at statehood

02 July 2025

The crippling of Hezbollah's dominance and the Assad regime's fall in Syria have created a narrow but historic opening for the Lebanese people

Paul Salem
Lina Jaradat
Business & Economy

Oman is quietly redefining its development model

29 June 2025

It is no longer the Gulf's quiet outlier but a country quietly setting a new standard for sustainable economic development in the region

Neil Quilliam
Lina Jaradat
Politics

How the Middle East can capitalise on Iran’s regional setback

02 July 2025

The US security umbrella will focus on Iran's direct threats, but regional states should deal with Tehran's residual proxy groups in the region

James Jeffrey

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