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A shopkeeper looks out through a window displaying replicas of football trophies at a gift shop in Souq Waqif bazaar in Doha on July 24, 2025. Karim JAAFAR / AFP
Business & Economy

Qatar’s economic resilience and the road ahead

The recent visit by an International Monetary Fund (IMF) team to Doha, on 17-18 September, has reaffirmed Qatar’s economic resilience and its steady…

Neil Quilliam 08 October , 2025
Demonstrators lift placards during a youth-led protest demanding reforms to public healthcare and education at Mohamed V square in Casablanca on October 6, 2025. Abdel Majid BZIOUAT / AFP
Politics

Morocco’s Gen Z takes to the streets demanding change

A lot seems to be riding on a speech by Morocco’s King Mohammed VI before politicians on Friday, to mark the opening of a new legislative year, as…

Mohamed Sharki 08 October , 2025

Gaza displacement, Hunter's moon and more

AP /Adam Gray
AP /Adam Gray

The Harvest Supermoon rises behind the Statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn skyline, on Monday, October 6, 2025, in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Eyad BABA / AFP
Eyad BABA / AFP

A Palestinian boy carries a piece of wood on October 4, 2025, as he walks on a coastal path towards the south after Israel ordered residents of Gaza City to leave.

Abdel Majid BZIOUAT / AFP
Abdel Majid BZIOUAT / AFP

Demonstrators call for an end to Israel's genocide in Gaza and protest the normalisation of relations between Morocco and Israel, on Mohammed V avenue in Rabat on October 5, 2025.

REUTERS/Pilar Olivares
REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

A drone view of photographs of Palestinian children killed by Israel during its genocide in Gaza displayed during a demonstration organised by the NGO Rio de Paz on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, October 4, 2025.

REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

A pop-up statue depicting US President Donald Trump and disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein dancing together reappears after an absence, near the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, October 3, 2025.

Roslan RAHMAN / AFP
Roslan RAHMAN / AFP

A plane flies past the full moon, also known as the "Hunter's Moon", in Singapore on October 7, 2025.

Luis TATO / AFP
Luis TATO / AFP

A protester throws a teargas canister back at police officers during clashes with Malagasy security forces at a demonstration calling for the resignation of President Andry Rajoelina, in Antananarivo, on October 6, 2025.

Yuri CORTEZ / AFP
Yuri CORTEZ / AFP

A demonstrator clashes with riot police during a rally commemorating the 57th anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre in Mexico City on October 2, 2025.

Jung Yeon-je / AFP
Jung Yeon-je / AFP

People walk through a field of yellow cosmos flowers at Olympic Park in Seoul on October 1, 2025.

AP/Channi Anand
AP/Channi Anand

An effigy of the demon king Ravana's Brother, Kumbhakarna, goes up in flames, marking the end of the Dussehra festival in Jammu, India, on Thursday, October 2, 2025.

Opinion

Will Lebanon miss its chance at good ties with Syria?

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa describes it as the “tyranny of geography,” while many Lebanese refer to it as the “curse of geography.” But the…

Alia Mansour 07 October , 2025
Morocco's influence on Matisse © Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images
Culture & Social Affairs

Morocco's influence on Matisse

For the French visual artist Henri Matisse, colour was hugely important, so it was bad timing that in the winter of 1912, as he began his first visit…

Azeddine Bourkia 07 October , 2025
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa (L) visits the polling station where members of Syrian local committees have been casting their votes to select members of an interim parliament, in Damascus on October 5, 2025. LOUAI BESHARA / AFP
Politics

Cheers and jeers as Syria votes in first post-Assad parliament

Syria has announced the results of its first parliamentary election since the ouster of former President Bashar al-Assad, with most new members of…

Subhi Franjieh 07 October , 2025
Two years after October 7, Gaza unrecognisable
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Two years after October 7, Gaza unrecognisable

Two years after the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, Israel has killed more than 64,500 Palestinians and injured over 163,500, the majority of them…

Al Majalla - London 07 October , 2025
Two years after October 7 Nesma Moharam
Politics

Two years after October 7

Two years ago, on October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a stunning attack on Israel, setting off a political and security earthquake whose aftershocks…

Al Majalla - London 06 October , 2025
Two years after October 7: a region between disorder and transition Nesma Moharam
Politics

Two years after October 7: a region between disorder and transition

As we approach the two-year mark of the region-wide conflict unleashed by the attacks of October 7, 2023, it is important to take stock of how this…

Paul Salem 06 October , 2025
October 7th's long shadow Nesma Moharam
Politics

October 7th's long shadow

No day resembles October 7 in Israel’s history, except perhaps the fateful beginning of the surprise 1973 Arab-Israeli War. The feelings on that day…

Michael Horowitz 06 October , 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
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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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