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Taiwan Battles a Brain Drain
Business & Economy

Taiwan Battles a Brain Drain

[caption id="attachment_55256284" align="alignnone" width="940"] Taiwanese high school graduates, wearing headbands reading "Victory", boost their…

Majalla 08 May , 2018
How Elections Can Lead to Peace
Politics

How Elections Can Lead to Peace

[caption id="attachment_55256276" align="alignnone" width="940"] This photo taken on April 14, 2018 shows an Afghan employee of the Independent…

Majalla 04 May , 2018
Iran’s Secret Atomic Archives
Politics

Iran’s Secret Atomic Archives

On April 30 in a public appearance at Israel’s Ministry of Defense, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented evidence that Iran had preserved a…

Joseph Braude 04 May , 2018
The Long Arc of Human Rights
Culture & Social Affairs

The Long Arc of Human Rights

[caption id="attachment_55256265" align="aligncenter" width="940"] A Rohingya refugee boy desperate for aid cries as he climbs on a truck…

Yasmine Ahmed 01 May , 2018
Six Months Away from the American Midterm Elections
Politics

Six Months Away from the American Midterm Elections

[caption id="attachment_55256235" align="alignnone" width="940"] Representative-elect Conor Lamb, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, right, stands with U…

Joseph Braude 27 April , 2018
Will Letting Women Fight Fix Gender Inequality?
Culture & Social Affairs

Will Letting Women Fight Fix Gender Inequality?

[caption id="attachment_55256233" align="alignnone" width="940"] Marine recruit Cora Ann Lacher from Manuet, NY fires on the rifle range during boot…

Majalla 27 April , 2018
How Reflexive Hostility to Russia Harms U.S. Interests
Politics

How Reflexive Hostility to Russia Harms U.S. Interests

[caption id="attachment_55256230" align="alignnone" width="940"] Michael Pompeo, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and U.S. secretary…

Majalla 27 April , 2018
Can France Be America's New Bridge to Europe?
Politics

Can France Be America's New Bridge to Europe?

[caption id="attachment_55256226" align="alignnone" width="940"] France's president Emmanuel Macron (L) and US President Donald Trump shake hands…

Majalla 27 April , 2018
Ortega is Using Castro’s Playbook
Politics

Ortega is Using Castro’s Playbook

[caption id="attachment_55256220" align="alignnone" width="940"] Nicaraguans living in Costa Rica demonstrate in front of the Nicaraguan embassy in…

Majalla 27 April , 2018
Paradise takes many forms on this Indonesian archipelago
Culture & Social Affairs

Paradise takes many forms on this Indonesian archipelago

[caption id="attachment_55256183" align="alignnone" width="940"] The overlook atop Pianemo Hill, in the Fam Islands group, offers one of the most…

Majalla 24 April , 2018
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The tiny waterway that put the global economy into a chokehold

18 April 2026

Disruption in the Hormuz can have major implications for global trade, but it also creates opportunities for smaller nations like Iran to become global political players

Steve Hewitt
Pete Reynolds
Politics

Glimpses of Bush's Iraq debacle appear in Trump's Iran war

15 April 2026

The Iraq war was viewed as disastrous in retrospect, while the Iran war was unpopular from the get-go. Al Majalla highlights the similarities and differences between the two.

Robert Ford
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The US plan to turn Syria into an oil transit hub

16 April 2026

Pipelines have a chequered history in the Middle East, but the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led US Tom Barrack to conclude that a new route through Syria could solve some problems.

Al Majalla - London
An Iranian woman flashes the V-sign as she takes part in a rally to pay tribute to women killed during war, in Tehran on 17 April 2026. AFP
Politics

Has Iran's ideology actually hardened?

16 April 2026

The change in tone and presentation of policy isn't a fundamental redirection, but rather the consolidation of a system under pressure

Alex Vatanka
Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed holds two awards during the opening ceremony of the Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, late on 14 September 2010. AMR AHMAD / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Daoud Abdel Sayed and the cinema of quiet rebellion

16 April 2026

Throughout his career, the renowned Egyptian film director challenged authority, rejected easy answers, and remained rooted in lived experience

Hazem Massoud

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