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Facebook Needed Third-Party Apps to Grow. Now it’s Left With a Privacy Crisis
Science & Technology

Facebook Needed Third-Party Apps to Grow. Now it’s Left With a Privacy Crisis

[caption id="attachment_55256035" align="alignnone" width="940"] A laptop showing the Facebook logo is held alongside a Cambridge Analytica sign at…

Majalla 31 March , 2018
March for Our Lives: Students Who Drove the Movement Must Decide What's Next
Politics

March for Our Lives: Students Who Drove the Movement Must Decide What's Next

[caption id="attachment_55256027" align="alignnone" width="940"] Sophie Phillips holds a sign as she attends a rally for those heading to the March…

Majalla 31 March , 2018
Why Peace Talks Are Washington's Best Bet in Afghanistan
Politics

Why Peace Talks Are Washington's Best Bet in Afghanistan

[caption id="attachment_55256004" align="alignnone" width="940"] In this photograph taken on August 27, 2017 Afghan Commandos transport a colleague…

Majalla 30 March , 2018
Xi: It Man in China
Politics

Xi: It Man in China

[caption id="attachment_55255980" align="alignnone" width="3000"] Chinese President Xi Jinping accompanies Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan to view…

Majalla 30 March , 2018
What a U.S.–North Korean Summit Means for Japan
Politics

What a U.S.–North Korean Summit Means for Japan

[caption id="attachment_55256000" align="alignnone" width="940"] U.S. President Donald Trump and Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe walk together to…

Majalla 30 March , 2018
Social Media Data Harvesters Cambridge Analytica and the Middle East
Science & Technology

Social Media Data Harvesters Cambridge Analytica and the Middle East

[caption id="attachment_55255989" align="alignnone" width="5568"] Signs for company Cambridge Analytica in the lobby of the building in which they…

Majalla 30 March , 2018
How to Solve the Global Water Crisis
Science & Technology

How to Solve the Global Water Crisis

[caption id="attachment_55255992" align="alignnone" width="940"] The Jamam refugee camp in Upper Nile State, South Sudan houses 36,500 vulnerable…

Majalla 30 March , 2018
Putin's Succession Conundrum
Politics

Putin's Succession Conundrum

[caption id="attachment_55255997" align="alignnone" width="940"] Russia's current president Vladimir Putin (front), a candidate in the 2018 Russian…

Majalla 30 March , 2018
Saudi's newly appointed King Salman (L) shakes hands with former US secretary of state James Baker (C) at Erga Palace in Riyadh on January 27, 2015. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
Politics

Former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker: Restored US-Saudi Relations Will Strengthen Security in the Region

This article was originally published in Majalla on June 1, 2017. *I am hopeful that progress can be made between Arabs and Israelis but…

Mustafa El-Dessouki 25 March , 2018
Politics

Stephen Hadley: In Yemen..Saudi is Confronting a Threat to its People

[caption id="attachment_55252910" align="aligncenter" width="940"] National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley briefs the media June 26, 2008 at the…

Majalla 25 March , 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
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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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