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Primetime Politics
Politics

Primetime Politics

[caption id="attachment_55254741" align="aligncenter" width="7072"] An elderly woman watches TV broadcasting of Russian President Vladimir Putin's…

Majalla 21 October , 2017
Sanctions and Sudan
Politics

Sanctions and Sudan

[caption id="attachment_55254742" align="aligncenter" width="5760"] A Sudanese woman demonstrates outside the US embassy in the capital Khartoum on…

Majalla 21 October , 2017
Imagining Refugia
Culture & Social Affairs

Imagining Refugia

[caption id="attachment_55254738" align="aligncenter" width="4131"] Kurdish refugee children from the Syrian town of Kobani look on near makeshift…

Majalla 21 October , 2017
Staying the Course in Afghanistan
Politics

Staying the Course in Afghanistan

[caption id="attachment_55254735" align="aligncenter" width="5760"] Members of the media try to protect themselves from dust blown up by a British…

Majalla 21 October , 2017
Xi Enters New Era of Power
Politics

Xi Enters New Era of Power

[caption id="attachment_55254728" align="aligncenter" width="3628"] China's President Xi Jinping waves as he attends the opening session of the 19th…

Majalla 21 October , 2017
e-Estonia: Defending the Digital Frontier
Science & Technology

e-Estonia: Defending the Digital Frontier

[caption id="attachment_55254731" align="aligncenter" width="512"] Helen Popp[/caption] Maia Otarashvili* Ten years after experiencing debilitating…

Majalla 21 October , 2017
From Rhetoric to Action
Politics

From Rhetoric to Action

[caption id="attachment_55254676" align="aligncenter" width="4640"] Iran's President Hassan Rouhani answers a question during a press conference in…

Majalla 13 October , 2017
Anders Vistisen: There is Great Naiveté in Europe When it Comes to Iran
Politics

Anders Vistisen: There is Great Naiveté in Europe When it Comes to Iran

[caption id="attachment_55254678" align="aligncenter" width="1240"] Anders Vistisen[/caption] by Joseph Braude 29-year-old Anders Primdahl Vistisen,…

Joseph Braude 13 October , 2017
The Postcolonial Cold War
Culture & Social Affairs

The Postcolonial Cold War

[caption id="attachment_55254692" align="aligncenter" width="3328"] Mao Tse Toung (1893-1976) chinese president here during review of army of The…

Majalla 13 October , 2017
Don't Fund Syria's Reconstruction
Politics

Don't Fund Syria's Reconstruction

[caption id="attachment_55254684" align="aligncenter" width="3000"] A Kurdish Syrian woman walks with her child past the ruins of the town of Kobane…

Majalla 12 October , 2017
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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.

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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
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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
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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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