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Issa (Salim Daou) and Siham (Hiam Abbas) waiting for transport in a scene from “Gaza Mon Amour”. (Supplied)
Culture & Social Affairs

"Gaza Mon Amour": A Different Look at Contemporary Gaza

Speaking about Palestine or Gaza strip in specific always comes with mentioning the war and the people's lives between rockets and strikes, the…

Salma Adham 13 August , 2021
Illustrated by Ali Mandalawi

Dame Sarah Gilbert: Vaccinologist Barbie

In recent years, toymaker Mattel has responded to criticism about the Barbie doll's role in creating an unrealistic picture of womanhood. The company…

Majalla 13 August , 2021
The energy and resource demands of data storage and computation are enormous. (Dreamstime/TNS)
Science & Technology

We Are Our Data, Our Data Are Us

By one count, more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of digitized information are generated on Earth every day. That’s more data than all the words spoken…

Caleb Scharf 10 August , 2021
Outlawed Ennahda
Politics

Outlawed Ennahda

Tunisia is certainly going through a serious turning point that represents the crux of the dispute between the Islamic movement, on one hand, and the…

Gamal Abd El-Maboud 09 August , 2021
The search for victims, both human and non-human, continues on November 12, 2018 in Paradise, California, where the death toll from the Camp fire has reached 29. A crew recovers the remains of a canine on Lawndale Lane in Paradise. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Climate Change Means an End to Paradise

When people used to ask me where I’m from, they would smile and shake their heads in disbelief when I said Paradise. “Paradise?” they would ask. …

Molly Culton 08 August , 2021

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A local resident tries to contains fire in Thrakomakedones, near Mount Parnitha, north of Athens, on August 7, 2021. - Hundreds of firefighters battled a blaze on the outskirts of Athens as several fires raged in Greece. (Photo by Louisa GOULIAMAKI / AFP)

World in Photos

A demonstrator marches with a sign showing the face of one of the young victims of the Beirut blast with a caption in Arabic beneath reading "she could have been your daughter", in the Gemmayze neighbourhood as protesters head towards the port of Lebanon's capital on August 4, 2021, on the first anniversary of the blast that ravaged the port and the city. - Hundreds of Lebanese marched on August 4 to mark a year since a cataclysmic explosion ravaged Beirut, protesting impunity over the country's worst peacetime disaster at a time when its economy was already in tatters. (Photo by JOSEPH EID / AFP)

World in Photos

A Palestinian boy sprays a friend with water from a pipe, on a very hot day in the town of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 7, 2021. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)

World in Photos

Residents wade through a waterlogged street after the rising water levels caused flooding in the low-lying areas near the banks of the river Ganges in Allahabad on August 7, 2021. (Photo by SANJAY KANOJIA / AFP)

World in Photos

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Volleyball - Men - Medal Ceremony - Ariake Arena, Tokyo, Japan – August 7, 2021. Team members of France pose with their gold medals after the match. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

World in Photos

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Soccer Football - Men's Team - Medal Ceremony - International Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan - August 7, 2021. Gold medallists Brazil celebrate during the medal ceremony. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Illustration of Salah Jaheen by artist Essam Azouz. (Wikimedia commons)
Culture & Social Affairs

Salah Jaheen’s Cartoons on Exhibit

​Last week, a rare collection from the cartoons of renowned Egyptian artist Salah Jaheen (1930-1986) was on display for the public. Under the…

Amira el Noshokaty 06 August , 2021
Ahdeya Ahmed, the Bahraini journalist and Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Bahraini Journalists Association.
Culture & Social Affairs

Bahraini Trail-blazing Female Journalist Hopes to Establish Int’l Media Body Combating Terrorism

Renowned Bahraini journalist Ahdeya Ahmed is hoping to establish an international media body that crystallizes a unified media discourse to combat…

Menna A. Farouk 06 August , 2021
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
Book Cover
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
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Axel Rangel Garcia
Politics

Why a cornered Iran is also a problem for China

02 May 2026

Even when appeals to open the Hormuz Strait come from a close ally like Beijing, they fall on deaf ears in Tehran. But hope is not yet lost.

Xiaotong Yang
Sara Padovan
Business & Economy

Global airfares soar amid ongoing US-Iran turmoil

04 May 2026

Airspace closures, rising fuel costs, shifting flight maps and delayed aircraft deliveries have repriced flights around the world, with some travel routes hit worse than others

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
A man holds a flag featuring the late leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the late Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei and the new leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, at a rally in Tehran on 29 April 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
Politics

Real Iran splits and the myth of division

04 May 2026

The argument is over the price and presentation, not the basic instinct to preserve the system

Alex Vatanka
A Lebanese guard stands in front of  Magen Abraham, the last Jewish synagogue in Lebanon at Wadi Abou Jmil, Beirut's former Jewish neighbourhood, in the war-devastated city centre. JOSEPH BARRAK / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

New book recalls Beirut’s once-vibrant Jewish quarter

01 May 2026

Veteran Lebanese journalist Nada Abdelsamad transports readers back to the time when Beirut's Jewish quarter, known at the time as Wadi al-Yahud, was thriving

Abdul Rahman Mazhar Halloush
Turkish fighter jets fly over a warship in Kyrenia, in the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. AFP
Politics

How the Iran war changed Türkiye’s security calculus

05 May 2026

Ankara's national security priority is no longer Kurds or Gülenists, but Israel. Likewise, in Tel Aviv, Türkiye is increasingly seen as a future Israeli adversary. Both are preparing accordingly

Rustum Mahmud

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