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Netanyahu's idea of a reshaped Middle East
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Netanyahu's idea of a reshaped Middle East

Fares Garabet 01 December , 2025
The Moroccan dirham emerges as an alternative currency in African markets Lina Jaradat
Business & Economy

The Moroccan dirham emerges as an alternative currency in African markets

A growing number of African states are exploring adopting regional currencies instead of the dollar, the euro, and the CFA franc for intra-African…

Mohamed Sharki 01 December , 2025
US President Donald Trump welcomes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the White House on 18 November 2025, in Washington, DC. Win McNamee / Getty
Politics

Saudi Arabia and the US: renewing a long partnership

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to Washington on 18 and 19 November was no routine visit—it marked the renewal and strengthening of an…

Al Majalla - London 30 November , 2025
US President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman watch a flight of F-35's and F-15's during a welcome ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, on 18 November 2025, in Washington. AP /Evan Vucci
Politics

No US-Saudi defence treaty yet, but a good first step

One of recent history’s most enduring lessons is that great, generational alliances are seldom built on handshakes alone. They survive when they are…

Abdullah F. Alrebh 30 November , 2025
US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman stand with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and others at the Saudi-US Investment Forum in Washington, DC. on 19 November, 2025. SPA
Politics

The full list of Saudi–US deals clinched in Washington

Saudi Arabia and the United States, along with several companies and institutions from both nations, signed a series of agreements and memoranda of…

Majalla - Washington 30 November , 2025
Opinion

Refashioning a Saudi-US partnership fit for the future

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to Washington in November was not the typical palm-pressing conglomeration of diplomatic niceties…

Ibrahim Hamidi 30 November , 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi attend a welcoming ceremony for participants of the BRICS summit in Kazan on 22 October 2024. Maxim Shemetov / POOL / AFP
Politics

Egypt's multipolar balancing act is paying off

A hot wind rolled in from the Mediterranean on 19 November. A few metres from the coast, a 330-tonne pressure vessel manufactured in St. Petersburg…

Amr Emam 30 November , 2025
The head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund, Kirill Dmitriev,‬ speaks to the media ahead of his meeting with the US delegation in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia‬, on 18 February 2025. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed
Profiles

Kirill Dmitriev: Russia oligarch-turned-Ukraine peace negotiator

The timely intervention of Russian financier Kirill Dmitriev has been crucial to US President Donald Trump’s latest diplomatic efforts to achieve a…

Con Coughlin 30 November , 2025
Al Majalla's Book Watch Al Majalla
Culture & Social Affairs

Al Majalla's Book Watch

The Arab world has a vibrant and rich literary scene. Al Majalla selects some notable titles in our fortnightly round-up of the latest Arabic books,…

Khodr Al Agha 30 November , 2025
Pope Leo XIV presides over the Holy Mass at the Volkswagen Arena, during his first apostolic journey, in Istanbul, Türkiye, on 29 November 2025. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Politics

Why Pope Leo XIV chose Türkiye as his first foreign trip

Pope Leo XIV, the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.5 billion Catholics and head of state of the Vatican, is on an official visit to Türkiye—the…

Omer Onhon 29 November , 2025
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Pep Boatella
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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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