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Don’t Speak, Memory
Politics

Don’t Speak, Memory

[caption id="attachment_55255280" align="aligncenter" width="1880"] MOSCOW, RUSSIA - OCTOBER 30 :Russia's President Vladimir Putin lays a bunch of…

Majalla 19 January , 2018
How the Eurozone Might Split
Business & Economy

How the Eurozone Might Split

[caption id="attachment_55255288" align="aligncenter" width="5200"] European Union flag with fracturing Euro coin[/caption] by Mark Blyth and Simon…

Majalla 19 January , 2018
The Future of Navalny's Opposition Movement
Politics

The Future of Navalny's Opposition Movement

[caption id="attachment_55255283" align="aligncenter" width="5024"] Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen his visit to the Russian Central…

Majalla 19 January , 2018
Hassan Massoudy: Calligraphy of Love and Hope
Culture & Social Affairs

Hassan Massoudy: Calligraphy of Love and Hope

The exquisite art of Arabic calligraphy has mesmerized people through its grace and powerful beauty for centuries. One of the most prominent…

Yasmine El Geressi 15 January , 2018
Four Years after the Euromaidan
Politics

Four Years after the Euromaidan

[caption id="attachment_55255212" align="aligncenter" width="3000"] Anti-government protesters clash with police in Independence square on February…

Maia Otarashvili 12 January , 2018
Pushing Back on Russian Disinformation in Arab Countries
Politics

Pushing Back on Russian Disinformation in Arab Countries

by Joseph Braude* Late last year, two scholars with an interest in Russian affairs, Mieczyslaw Boduszynski and Philip Breeden, penned an article…

Joseph Braude 12 January , 2018
Why the Protests Won't Change Iran's Foreign Policy
Culture & Social Affairs

Why the Protests Won't Change Iran's Foreign Policy

[caption id="attachment_55255207" align="aligncenter" width="2835"] Iranian guards march during the rally to mark the 38th anniversary of the Islamic…

Majalla 12 January , 2018
Why Iran's Protesters Are So Angry With Rouhani
Culture & Social Affairs

Why Iran's Protesters Are So Angry With Rouhani

[caption id="attachment_55255204" align="aligncenter" width="4788"] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attends the extraordinary meeting of the…

Majalla 12 January , 2018
The Women Who Escaped ISIS
Politics

The Women Who Escaped ISIS

[caption id="attachment_55255200" align="aligncenter" width="4112"] Iraqi women pose for a photo in Baghdad's Tahrir Square on December 10, 2017,…

Majalla 12 January , 2018
Umm Kulthoum ... The Voice of Eternity
Culture & Social Affairs

Umm Kulthoum ... The Voice of Eternity

[caption id="attachment_55255190" align="aligncenter" width="2865"] by Ali Mandalawi[/caption] by Moncef Al-Mazghani 1. Umm Kulthoum was born…

Majalla 11 January , 2018
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Nash
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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
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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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