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Empty vials of AstraZeneca-Oxford's Covishield vaccine against Covid-19 is seen on a table inside a hospital on May 2, 2021 in Bengaluru, India. (TNS)
Business & Economy

How Foreign Aid For Medicine Yields Big Economic Returns

President Joe Biden’s decision to donate 500 million COVID-19 vaccines to other countries by June 2022 is an important step toward restoring the…

Edward Miguel 30 June , 2021
Iraqi President Barham Saleh (C), Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi (L) and Parliament Speaker Muhammad Al-Halbousi (R) receive Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (2-R), and Jordan's King Abdullah II (2-L), in the capital Baghdad on June 27, 2021, in the first visit by an Egyptian head of state to Baghdad in three decades. (AFP)

The Egyptian-Jordanian-Iraqi Tripartite Summit

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Jordan's King Abdullah II held a tripartite summit with Iraq's president Sunday, in the first visit by an…

AFP 27 June , 2021

World in Photos

World in Photos

A fire burns between a formation of Palestinian police officers and demonstrators during a protest over the death of Nizar Banat, a critic of the Palestinian Authority, in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 26, 2021.(Reuters)

World in Photos

People walk past a ferris wheel beside banners advertising the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games that have been postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Tokyo, Japan June 27, 2021.(Reuters)

World in Photos

Tourists take pictures in the Sicilian town of Taormina, one of the island's most popular hotspots, in Taormina, Italy, June 27, 2021.(Reuters)

World in Photos

Members of the South Florida Urban Search and Rescue team look for possible survivors in the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building on June 26, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. (Getty)

World in Photos

Denmark's players celebrate after winning the UEFA EURO 2020 round of 16 football match between Wales and Denmark at the Johan Cruyff Arena in Amsterdam on June 26, 2021.(AFP)

World in Photos

A fruit vendor pulls his cart as he walks past a wall mural depicting a frontline Covid-19 coronavirus worker wearing a face mask in New Delhi on June 27, 2021. (Getty)

A supporter holds a poster of the Apple Daily newspaper logo outside the media company's office building in Hong Kong in the early hours of June 24, 2021, shortly after the 26 year old newspaper went to print for the last time.(Getty)
Politics

What Americans Should Learn From China’s Shutdown of Hong Kong’s Last Pro-Democracy Newspaper

As Senate Republicans were blocking a bill to expand voting rights for Americans, the Chinese government was destroying Apple Daily, the pro…

Trudy Rubin 26 June , 2021
Sam Ali as (Yahya Mahayni), who becomes a work of art, in front of a crowd in a scene from the film. (Supplied)
Culture & Social Affairs

The Man Who Sold His Skin: A Movie About Syrian Refugees’ Suffering

Imagine a Schengen visa engraved on your back so that you can travel freely as an artwork and not a human? If you are asked by a famous tattoo artist…

Salma Adham 25 June , 2021
Poster of Palestinian Film: “Between Heaven and Earth.” (Supplied)
Culture & Social Affairs

Palestinian Films Dominate San Diego Arab Film Festival

Last weekend, at the American Museum of Photographic Arts (AMPA) in San Diego, Southern California, the tenth annual Arab Film Festival began in the…

Mohammad Ali Salih 25 June , 2021
Illustration by Ali Mandalawi
Culture & Social Affairs

Jehan Sadat: Former Egyptian First Lady Lauded Amid Prayers for Her Recovery

“Get well soon, Mother of Champions” said a statement by Mohamed Anwer Essmat Sadat, the nephew of the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat,…

Majalla 25 June , 2021
Falkland’s Graveyard of Democracy
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Falkland’s Graveyard of Democracy

Majalla 25 June , 2021
The US Dollar depicted as the dominate world reserve currency. (Getty)
Business & Economy

Does It Matter If Dollar Dominance Ends?

What price will the United States pay for the end of dollar hegemony, if indeed dollar hegemony ends? Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist and…

Robert Farley 25 June , 2021
Iran's President-elect Ebrahim Raisi delivers speech at the Imam Reza shrine in the city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran, on June 22, 2021. (Getty)
Politics

What Raisi’s Presidency Means for the Region

In his first statement as Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi rejected the possibility of meeting with US president Joe Biden, or even negotiating Iran’s…

Hanin Ghaddar 25 June , 2021
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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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