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Rania Bedda during her participation in Cairo Book Fair 2021 (Supplied)
Culture & Social Affairs

Rania Bedda: From a “Dreamer” to an “Award Winning Writer”

“Good stories surprise us. They make us think and feel. They stick in our minds and help us remember ideas and concepts in a way that a PowerPoint…

Sarah Gamal 06 August , 2021
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Culture & Social Affairs

Red Sea Security, 250 Years Ago

A month before the publication of this book, its British author, Nicholas Stephenson Smith, wrote about it in the American “Foreign Policy”…

Mohammad Ali Salih 06 August , 2021
A man relaxing on a hummock in a date-palm farm in Al Ahsa, in the Eastern Region of KSA. (Photo: Saudi Press Agency)
Culture & Social Affairs

Rural Tourism Attracts More People to the Saudi Countryside

“I took my daughters to the Strawberry Farm in Taif, West of Saudi Arabia. The farm guard gave them a small basket to pick the ripe strawberries. Not…

Motasem Al Felou 06 August , 2021
Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a briefing at the State Department, Monday, August 2, 2021, in Washington. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP)
Business & Economy

First US Sanctions Imposed on Turkish-backed Syrian Militia

It took the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA), which is a Syrian armed group that opposes President Bashar Assad’s regime but supports the…

Jiwan Soz 06 August , 2021
Mette Frederiksen, Denmark's prime minister, arrives at a European Leaders (EU) summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Friday, June 25, 2021. (Photo by: Valeria Mongelli/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Politics

Scandal Over American NSA Bugging EU Allies

The National Security Agency (NSA) is the main US agency for global monitoring, collection, decoding, translation, and analysis of foreign…

Jassem Mohamed – Bonn 06 August , 2021
Illustration by Ali Mandalawi
Culture & Social Affairs

Greta Thunberg: The Climate Campaigner Challenging World Leaders

This summer is witnessing many fires and floods that strike many countries around the globe, and the intense heatwave, which scientists describe as …

Majalla 06 August , 2021
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Majalla 06 August , 2021
An Afghan security personnel gestures as he stands guard at the site a day after a car bomb explosion in Kabul on August 4, 2021. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)
Culture & Social Affairs

The Resurgence of Terror

Terrorism, be it in South Asia, the Middle East, or West Africa, is regrettably enjoying a resurgence. The US decision to withdraw its troops from…

Hagar Elnahas 06 August , 2021
Tunisia's President Kais Saied, center, leads a security meeting with members of the army and police forces in Tunis, Tunisia, Sunday, July 25, 2021. (Photo by Hedi Azouz/AP)
Politics

Tunisia’s Challenge to Keep the Boat Afloat

Tunisia; the geographically small, historically ancient, and demographically young and vibrant North African country, which is located at one of the…

Dalia Ziada 06 August , 2021
USA gymnast Simone Biles performs in the Women's Balance Beam at Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday, August 3, 2021. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
Culture & Social Affairs

How Simone Biles Helped Us Rediscover Humanity in the Olympics

Let’s not call it redemption or vindication. Those words imply a mistake was made. It’s not really a comeback either. That suggests her past success…

Peter Jensen 04 August , 2021
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US President Donald Trump meets Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate for an end to the war in Ukraine in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Politics

Putin rides high after Alaska

18 August 2025

Seven instances that showed the Russian leader had the upper hand during his meeting with Trump

Robert Ford
Eduardo Ramon
Business & Economy

The rare earths powering industries and fuelling conflicts

18 August 2025

From Africa to the Arctic, certain metals and minerals are so highly sought after for today's strategic industries that countries will go to war over them. What are they? Al Majalla digs deeper.

Abdulfattah Khattab
US Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack, also special envoy to Syria, fields questions from journalists after meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon, on August 18, 2025. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
Politics

 Lebanon at a crossroads over Hezbollah arms

18 August 2025

US envoy to Syria Tom Barrack used his latest visit to Beirut to deliver what was, in effect, an ultimatum to the Lebanese government, though he took care not to present it as such

Michael Harari
Aliaa Aboukhaddour
Culture & Social Affairs

How Gaza’s hakawati use storytelling to cling to memory and life

17 August 2025

Storytelling in a genocide in which there has been no formal education for two years is no luxury. Rather, it is an attempt to revive the imaginations of a generation robbed of their childhood.

Houssam Marouf
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer makes an address following an emergency cabinet meeting on Gaza at 10 Downing Street in London on July 29, 2025. Toby Melville / AFP
Politics

Performative politics: Palestine recognition pledges ring hollow

18 August 2025

The moves by France, the UK and other Western states appear to be more about appeasing domestic critics with symbolic gestures rather than a genuine attempt to change Israel's behaviour

Christopher Phillips

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