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Iran’s Fourth Estate
Politics

Iran’s Fourth Estate

[caption id="attachment_55255129" align="aligncenter" width="787"] Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres- RSF) activists take part in…

Majalla 05 January , 2018
Russia's Afghanistan Strategy
Politics

Russia's Afghanistan Strategy

[caption id="attachment_55255134" align="aligncenter" width="3369"] President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin (R) meets with President of…

Majalla 05 January , 2018
The Jihadist Threat Won't End With ISIS' Defeat
Politics

The Jihadist Threat Won't End With ISIS' Defeat

[caption id="attachment_55255140" align="aligncenter" width="6016"] The sun cuts through the smoke as an Iraqi soldier walks into the center of a…

Majalla 05 January , 2018
Why the Taliban Isn't Winning in Afghanistan
Politics

Why the Taliban Isn't Winning in Afghanistan

[caption id="attachment_55255137" align="aligncenter" width="4928"] Taliban fighters stand with their seized weapons as they are presented to the…

Majalla 05 January , 2018
Hezbollah Will Not Yield Lebanon
Politics

Hezbollah Will Not Yield Lebanon

[caption id="attachment_55255084" align="aligncenter" width="5724"] Young female supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah Shiite movement hold a giant…

Hanin Ghaddar 29 December , 2017
Will Iran be challenged in 2018?
Politics

Will Iran be challenged in 2018?

[caption id="attachment_55255080" align="aligncenter" width="6432"] Iran's President Hassan Rouhani ( Getty Images)[/caption] by:Hanin Ghaddar As…

Hanin Ghaddar 29 December , 2017
Europe's Authoritarian Equilibrium
Politics

Europe's Authoritarian Equilibrium

by R. Daniel Kelemen* On Wednesday, December 20, the European Commission took a historic step to defend the rule of law in Poland. For the first…

Majalla 29 December , 2017
Trump and the Bond Market
Business & Economy

Trump and the Bond Market

[caption id="attachment_55255109" align="aligncenter" width="594"] Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S.,…

Majalla 29 December , 2017
Macron’s World
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Macron’s World

[caption id="attachment_55255102" align="aligncenter" width="5246"] French President Emmanuel Macron listens to employees during a visit to the…

Majalla 29 December , 2017
The Myanmar Military's Legacy of Impunity
Politics

The Myanmar Military's Legacy of Impunity

[caption id="attachment_55255072" align="aligncenter" width="7360"] A Rohingya refugee boy desperate for aid cries as he climbs on a truck…

Majalla 22 December , 2017
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Business & Economy

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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Business & Economy

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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