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Even Smarter Sanctions
Business & Economy

Even Smarter Sanctions

[caption id="attachment_55254957" align="aligncenter" width="4340"] U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley is seen voting in favor of new sanctions…

Majalla 01 December , 2017
The Alarming Decline of Democracy in East Africa
Politics

The Alarming Decline of Democracy in East Africa

[caption id="attachment_55262650" align="aligncenter" width="2835"] Mulatu Teshome (R) President of Ethiopia welcomes President of Uganda Yoweri…

Jon Temin 01 December , 2017
Deterring Cyberattacks
Politics

Deterring Cyberattacks

[caption id="attachment_55254972" align="aligncenter" width="4957"] A picture taken on October 17, 2016 shows an employee walking behind a glass wall…

Majalla 01 December , 2017
Noteworthy Coverage of the Middle East in Russia
Politics

Noteworthy Coverage of the Middle East in Russia

by Lyubov Podgornaya Two Years of Russian Military Operations in Syria: We Predicted “a Second Afghanistan.” But This Prediction was Wrong. …

Majalla 01 December , 2017
A Close-Up Look at Europe’s Migrant Crisis
Politics

A Close-Up Look at Europe’s Migrant Crisis

[caption id="attachment_55254912" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Migrants are escorted through fields by police as they are walked from the…

Yasmine El Geressi 24 November , 2017
ISIS' Intelligence Service Refuses to Die
Politics

ISIS' Intelligence Service Refuses to Die

[caption id="attachment_55254930" align="aligncenter" width="3260"] A member of Iraqi intelligence (R) guards 31 suspected ISIS group members at the…

Majalla 24 November , 2017
The Hidden Refugee Health Crisis
Culture & Social Affairs

The Hidden Refugee Health Crisis

[caption id="attachment_55254926" align="aligncenter" width="5000"] Lebanese medical student examines displaced refugee woman. Getty)[/caption] On a…

Majalla 24 November , 2017
A Pan-Eurasian Dream in Progress
Politics

A Pan-Eurasian Dream in Progress

[caption id="attachment_55254924" align="aligncenter" width="3213"] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev…

Yasmine Ahmed 24 November , 2017
Is the Future Human?
Science & Technology

Is the Future Human?

by Bryn Haworth* In his book Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari is concerned with a human future that is no longer strictly human at all. It is a…

Majalla 24 November , 2017
Hariri’s Resignation Exposed Hezbollah
Politics

Hariri’s Resignation Exposed Hezbollah

[caption id="attachment_55254910" align="aligncenter" width="3000"] Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri makes a public appearance at his home "Beit…

Majalla 24 November , 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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