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A parked motorcycle under Islamic and travel murals in a street of the village of Bairat on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images).
Culture & Social Affairs

From Egypt to Mecca With Love

“Far away is the land of the prophet, far away and I would love to visit” – A Folk Song. It is Muslim Hajj season and Egypt has always favored…

Amira el Noshokaty 17 July , 2021
GWM Haval car at Auto Expo 2020, on February 5, 2020, in Greater Noida, India. Chinese GWM Cars have recently established presence in Saudi Arabia. (Getty)
Business & Economy

A New Emerging Player with Feminine, Stylish Designs

“Saudi working women are wise when it comes to finances. However, this is not the only decisive factor behind the rising presence of Chinese cars in…

Motasem Al Felou 23 April , 2021
Painted for Majalla by Mekdad.
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
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President of the European Council Charles Michel at the EU headquarters in Brussels on 28 June 2024. JOHN THYS / AFP
Politics

Former European Council president gets candid on US-Iran war

27 March 2026

In an interview with Al Majalla, Charles Michel explains how Trump didn't consult with allies before attacking Iran in a war that benefits Russia at Europe's expense

Ahmed Maher
Axel Rangel Garcia
Business & Economy

Foreign workers in the Gulf pay the price of war

24 March 2026

Millions working in the Gulf are worried about their livelihoods and the impact on their families, while their employers are worried that they will leave

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi
A woman mourns in a cemetery in Choueifat, Lebanon, on 29 March 2026, before the funeral of Lebanese journalists who were killed by a targeted Israeli strike. REUTERS / Manu Brabo
Politics

Lebanon's mediation window is firmly shut...for now

29 March 2026

Tehran says any negotiated settlement to the US-Iran war must include its Hezbollah allies, but this could take a long time—a luxury Lebanon may not have.

Elie Kossaifi
Spanish writer Javier Cercas poses for a photo session during the 27th "Les Correspondances" literature festival in Manosque, southeastern France, on 27 September 2025. JOEL SAGET / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Javier Cercas on why novels thrive on ambiguity

26 March 2026

The Spanish novelist and professor shares his musings on memory, moral courage, deception and faith

Nesrein El-Bakhshawangy
Al Majalla
Politics

Sipan Hamo on integrating Kurdish units into the army

26 March 2026

In Part 2 of a two-part interview, the newly appointed deputy defence minister outlines the mistakes made by the SDF and gives his outlook on Syria's future.

Ibrahim Hamidi

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