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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
Nagwa Fouad
Culture & Social Affairs

Nagwa Fouad: The Egyptian Belly Dancer Loved by Henry Kissinger

Nagwa Fouad, an Egyptian belly dancer and actress, was born on January 17, 1939. She was born as Awatef Mohamed Agami in Alexandria to a middle-class…

Majalla 05 December , 2021
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Why siccing Syria's army on Hezbollah is so dangerous

28 June 2026

If Trump's idea is implemented, it would all but certainly further undermine regional stability and US interests in the Middle East

David Schenker
Neil Webb
Science & Technology

The G7 grapples with the politics of AI access

23 June 2026

As advanced AI models become strategic assets, the G7 is confronting difficult questions of access, dependence, and control

Marco Mossad
Massad Boulos, Trump's Middle East advisor, speaks at the Libya Energy and Economic Summit at the Tripoli International Conference Centre in Tripoli on 24 January, 2026. MAHMUD TURKIA / AFP
Politics

US plan for Libya: unification or management of division?

26 June 2026

A US envoy wants the institutions of western Libya to accommodate the son of an eastern warlord as Libyan president. Is this another doomed effort to unite the feuding factions, or could it work?

Areig Elhag
Grace Russell
Business & Economy

The World Cup is helping boost the Arab hospitality sector

26 June 2026

Owing to time-zone differences, the tournament is creating a new spending cycle for cafés and restaurants in Arab cities

Mohamed Sharki
Culture & Social Affairs

Umberto Eco's 'Inventing the Enemy' as relevant as ever

22 June 2026

A forgotten lecture by the renowned Italian writer at the University of Bologna in 2008 traced the history of hatred through language, myth, and imagination, all of which still apply today

Antoine Jockey

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