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Culture & Social Affairs

The Apps Helping Women Combat Sexual harassment in the Middle East

As sexual harassment rates rise in the Middle East, governments, civil society organizations and social entrepreneurs have started to develop apps…

Menna A. Farouk 06 February , 2021
Rare Twin Suicide Attack Kills at Least 23 in Baghdad

Rare Twin Suicide Attack Kills at Least 23 in Baghdad

A twin suicide bombing killed at least 23 people and wounded more than 50 in a Baghdad market on Thursday, the first such attack in years, security…

19 January , 2021
San Francisco Orange Sky during Fire Season
Business & Economy

Photography Has Gotten Climate Change Wrong from the Start

I knew something was wrong the minute I woke up. OnSeptember 9, the sky was still dark at7:15 a.m.Eventually it revealed a deep-orange light, darker…

Kim Beil 11 December , 2020
Somalia Must Learn to Stand Alone

Somalia Must Learn to Stand Alone

InMarch 1977,EthiopiaandSomaliaedged toward war over the region of Ogaden, which both claimed. Cuba’s revolutionary PresidentFidel Castromade a…

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud 30 November , 2020
Moral Virtue in the Time of Cholera
Science & Technology

Moral Virtue in the Time of Cholera

In April, British Prime MinisterBoris Johnsonbecame one of the first high-profile world leaders to contract the novel coronavirus. He was…

David Rosner 27 November , 2020
Al Qaeda's Franchise Reboot
Politics

Al Qaeda's Franchise Reboot

Nineteen years after the terrorist attacks ofSeptember 11, 2001, doesal Qaedastill pose a significant threat toU.S.national security? Among…

Asfandyar Mir and Colin P. Clarke 18 September , 2020
Lessons From Three Years in an Iranian Prison
Politics

Lessons From Three Years in an Iranian Prison

InAugust 2016, shortly after I was arrested by theIranian Ministry of Intelligence, one of my interrogators asked me what I thought of the…

Wang Xiyue 11 September , 2020
“My Poetry Depicts You” Offers a Lens on Modern Kurdish Poetry 
Culture & Social Affairs

“My Poetry Depicts You” Offers a Lens on Modern Kurdish Poetry 

A Kurdish man, standing beneath the Kurdish flag, raises his hand as several thousand sing the Kurdish national anthem while they…

Ali El Shamy 11 September , 2020
Migrants are Being Plunged into a Deadly Rescue Gap 
Politics

Migrants are Being Plunged into a Deadly Rescue Gap 

The mysterious British street artist Banksy, known for his political or social-commentary graffiti that has popped up in cities around the world,…

Yasmine El Geressi 04 September , 2020
Lebanon’s Power Struggle – Why a Failing State Can’t Get the Lights On
Politics

Lebanon’s Power Struggle – Why a Failing State Can’t Get the Lights On

Surveying Beirut’s shattered streets last week, in the aftermath of a massive explosion at the port that killed at least 158 people, French President…

Majalla 11 August , 2020
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Politics

Syria's new post-sanctions test

22 December 2025

Damascus finally gets breathing room after the US repealed its draconian Caesar sanctions, but it can't exhale just yet. Al Majalla explains why.

Haid Haid
Opinion

Israeli gas and the crafting of a 'new Middle East'

22 December 2025

The US is poised to use Israeli gas as a lever to keep Iran on the backfoot following its regional setback, and it could even use it to undercut Russia's economy

Ibrahim Hamidi
Women and children at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to el-Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan, in January 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed Zakaria
Politics

After el-Fasher: the trajectory of war in Sudan

16 November 2025

Washington seems to have changed its tone after the RSF committed atrocities in October, putting increasing pressure on the foreign backers of a paramilitary that now controls Darfur. What next?

Amgad Fareid Eltayeb
Despite a new president, a new prime minister, a new government, and a new central bank governor, what has actually changed after Lebanon's economic collapse? Lina Jaradat
Business & Economy

A state in crisis: Lebanon’s struggle to restore financial stability 

20 December 2025

Following the appointment of a new president, Lebanon has struggled to come to terms with the deep-rooted challenges of its financial collapse

Toufic Chanbour
Culture & Social Affairs

This year in film: landmark moments across platforms

22 December 2025

Al Majalla looks back at a memorable and haunting year in film, with Kaouther Ben Hania's The Voice of Hind Rajab one of 2025's most powerful works

Wael Said

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