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The problems in Egypt's pharmaceutical sector may require surgery to fix Alia Abu Khadour
Business & Economy

Egypt’s drug price increases help companies but not patients

In a period of high inflation and economic upheaval, Egypt’s pharmaceuticals sector and strained health‑insurance system are having to ride out a…

Marcelle Nasr 09 December , 2025
A Palestinian family looks down from their heavily damaged home in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on 7 November 2025. OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP
Politics

In Gaza, bombed-out homes become death traps

When Israeli bombardment and ground incursions intensified in late June, the Badr family was forced to flee their three-storey home in Jabalia,…

Salem Al Rayyes 08 December , 2025
Girls attending school in the city of Tunis in Tunisia on 20 May 2016. Shutterstock
Culture & Social Affairs

Why Tunisian women are outpacing men in education

In much of the developing world, the lack of girls in education has long been a problem that has vexed policymakers. But in one north African country…

Asmahan Al-Sha’abouni 08 December , 2025
Syrians celebrate their first year without Assad
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Syrians celebrate their first year without Assad

Fares Garabet 07 December , 2025
Opinion

A once-forgotten Syria now teems with possibility

Only a year ago, Syria was a forgotten land, teetering on the edge of time; a rusted regime and a heavy shadow. A people endlessly drained and a…

Ibrahim Hamidi 07 December , 2025
Trump, Sharaa, and the future of Syria Lina Jaradat
Politics

Trump, Sharaa, and the future of Syria

It was during US President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East in May that he met Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, after being urged to by Saudi…

Robert Ford 07 December , 2025
Why the US is asking Lebanon for its bomb back AFP / Al Majalla
Politics

Why the US is asking Lebanon for its bomb back

On 23 November 2025, an Israeli F-15 launched GBU-39 Small Diameter Bombs at Hezbollah's military commander in Beirut. The strike killed its target,…

Michael Horowitz 07 December , 2025
Andriy Yermak, Ukrainian President's chief of staff, looks on during a press conference in Kyiv on 27 August 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Sergei CHUZAVKOV / AFP
Profiles

Andriy Yermak: Zelensky's chief of staff 'resigns' amid corruption scandal

With negotiations over Ukraine’s future entering a critical stage, the surprise resignation of Andriy Yermak, the head of Kyiv’s negotiating team and…

Con Coughlin 07 December , 2025
The six noble gases countries are fighting over Al Majalla
Business & Economy

The six noble gases countries are fighting over

In the race for 21st-century technological dominance, most of the talk about resources has focused on critical minerals, by which most assume these…

Abdulfattah Khattab 07 December , 2025
Opinion

2026 will test the foundations of 'the new Syria'

As the anniversary of the Assad regime’s collapse approaches, Syria stands at a moment that invites both celebration and sober reflection. The fall…

Haid Haid 07 December , 2025
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Pep Boatella
Politics

Al-Jawf: the key to defeating the Houthis

05, Nov 2026

The battle for this strategically important and resource-rich province tests the Yemeni army's ability to tilt the military balance in its favour

Al Majalla - London
Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman Al-Saud, Pakistan's army chief General Syed Asim Munir, and Turkey's intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin in Tehran on 26 October 2026. IRANIAN PRESIDENCY / AFP
Politics

Pakistan’s balancing act in a fragmenting world

07, Nov 2026

Staying friends with the Turks, Chinese, Russians, Americans, Europeans, Iranians and Saudis simultaneously is a big ask for Islamabad's diplomats, but somehow they are managing it

Kaswar Klasra
Politics

Can the Democrats prevent a new round of war with Iran?

05, Nov 2026

Despite the war's unpopularity, Trump seems determined to press on until he can claim a decisive victory, whether by diplomacy, force, or a combination of the two

Aqeel Abbas
Eduardo Ramon
Profiles

Abdul El-Sayed: the progressive Michigander who beat the pro-Israel lobby

07, Aug 2026

The Egyptian-American epidemiologist became the first Muslim senator in US history, despite $70mn spent to defeat him in the Democratic primary

Tarek Rashed
French author Philippe Djianada looks out from a window at the Drouant restaurant in Paris, following his win of the French Goncourt literary prize for his novel "The Unknown Woman of Quai de Javel," on 3 November 2026. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
Culture & Social Affairs

A novel about a murder in Paris wins the 2026 Goncourt

06, Nov 2026

French novelist Philippe Jaenada's novel 'The Unknown Woman of Quai de Javel' wins big, while the Prix Renaudot goes to François-Henri Désérable for his novel about an unlikely wine expert

Najeeb Mubarak

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