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'Things Under Control': How Europe Sleep Walked into the Coronavirus Crisis
Science & Technology

'Things Under Control': How Europe Sleep Walked into the Coronavirus Crisis

Barely a month before Europe embarked on a scramble for masks, ventilators and testing kits to fight coronavirus, governments told Brussels their…

Majalla 01 April , 2020
Coronavirus in Syria: Another Means of International Blackmail
Science & Technology

Coronavirus in Syria: Another Means of International Blackmail

In a press conference about coronavirus a few days ago, Nazar Yazji, the health minister of the ruling Syrian regime stated: “The Arab Syrian army…

Alia Mansour 31 March , 2020
Coronavirus Fake News Is Not Like Other Fake News
Science & Technology

Coronavirus Fake News Is Not Like Other Fake News

In the desperate fight against the novel coronavirus, social media platforms have achieved an important victory: they have helped limit…

Sarah Kreps and Brendan Nyhan 30 March , 2020

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March 27

Times Square stands mostly empty as as much of the city is void of cars and pedestrians over fears of spreading the coronavirus on March 22, 2020 in New York City. (Getty)

March 27

Lebanese men wearing protective masks smoke water pipe or nargileh in Beirut on March 12, 2020. (Getty)

March 27

The Giza pyramids necropolis on the southwestern outskirts of the Egyptian capital Cairo is pictured empty on March 25, 2020. (Getty)

March 27

Syrians protest and burn tyres in an attempt to block traffic on the M4 highway, which links the northern Syrian provinces of Aleppo and Latakia, before incoming joint Turkish and Russian military patrols (as per an earlier agreed upon ceasefire deal) in the village of al-Nayrab, about 14 kilometres southeast of the city of Idlib and seven kilometres west of Saraqib in northwestern Syria on March 15, 2020. (Getty)

March 27

Fishermen try to catch fishes during the final of the revived Argungu fishing and cultural festival at Argungu Town, Kebbi State in northwest Nigeria, on March 14, 2020. (Getty)

March 27

Zaida Elena chains up beach chairs from her rental business in El Condado tourist zone in San Juan, Puerto Rico on March 18, 2020. (Getty)

A German air force Airbus A310 medevac plane is prepared to fly six COVID-19 patients from Italy's worst-hit region to western Germany for treatment, in Cologne, Germany, Saturday, March 28, 2020. (AP)
Science & Technology

Virus Infections Top 600,000 Worldwide, Long Fight Ahead

The number of confirmed coronavirus infections worldwide topped 600,000 on Saturday as new cases stacked up quickly in Europe and the United States…

Al Majalla - London 28 March , 2020
Yesterday’s Paper: Is Picasso Old News?
Culture & Social Affairs

Yesterday’s Paper: Is Picasso Old News?

In his twenties, John Constable, the great English landscape painter, fell in love with a woman called Maria Bicknell whom he had known since she was…

Bryn Haworth 27 March , 2020
China Will Miss American Reporters When They’re Gone
Culture & Social Affairs

China Will Miss American Reporters When They’re Gone

China’s expulsion of more than a dozen American journalists is being heralded as another step towarda new Cold War. Chinese officials are crowing…

John Pomfret 27 March , 2020
The Coronavirus Is Iran’s Perfect Storm
Science & Technology

The Coronavirus Is Iran’s Perfect Storm

If you want to die, go to Gilan. This old Iranian proverb does not actually warn people against travel to Gilan, Iran’s beautiful, green, and…

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani 27 March , 2020
It Takes a World to End a Pandemic
Science & Technology

It Takes a World to End a Pandemic

For perhaps the first time in modern history, the entire, interconnected world is focused on solving a single problem. The novel coronavirus, SARS…

Mahlet Mesfin 27 March , 2020
Bill Gates: The Billionaire who invests his Fortune to Help Fight Illiteracy, Poverty and Disease
Profiles

Bill Gates: The Billionaire who invests his Fortune to Help Fight Illiteracy, Poverty and Disease

More Than Just a Businessman Everyone knows who Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft is. However, Gates is more than just a…

Moncef al-Mazghany 27 March , 2020
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A portrait of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hangs during an anti-government protest calling for action to secure the release of Israeli hostages in Tel Aviv on March 29, 2025. Jack GUEZ / AFP
Politics

From covert to overt: Netanyahu's Doha strike is telling

11 September 2025

His emerging strategy shows a willingness to gamble on high-profile assassinations, even at the expense of diplomatic blowback, regional stability, and fragile negotiations

Michael Horowitz
A Hezbollah flag is placed in front of the shrine of Shamoun al-Safa, built within a castle in the village of Shamaa in southern Lebanon's Tyre governorate, on January 31, 2025, that was heavily damaged by Israeli bombing. Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP
Business & Economy

Trump Economic Zone plan raises eyebrows in Lebanon

11 September 2025

Many Lebanese see the project as a demographic one with economic dressings aimed at expelling the country's southern population from their lands

Souraya Chahine
Activists protest near the US Capitol on July 24, 2024, in Washington, DC. Activists staged multiple demonstrations near the Capitol to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington and Israel's war on Gaza. Alex Wong/ AFP
Politics

Americans are tiring of Israel. Will US policy follow?

01 September 2025

While the US public has long been supportive of Israel, its genocide in Gaza appears to have had a big effect, with most young Americans now outright hostile towards it

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy
Opinion

'The Voice of Hind Rajab' shows cries for justice are only getting louder

07 September 2025

A 24-minute standing ovation at the film premiere was more than a symbolic gesture of justice for Israel's murder of little Hind, but a heartfelt cry of real anguish over the ongoing genocide in Gaza

Samer Abou Hawwach
Al Majalla
Culture & Social Affairs

Fathy Embaby on using history to understand the present

05 September 2025

The Egyptian novelist—one of the Arab world's renowned writers of epic fiction—reveals the details of his craft to Al Majalla as the fourth book in his 'River' series captures a key moment

El-Sayed Hussein

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