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Sidestepping Sanctions
Business & Economy

Sidestepping Sanctions

[caption id="attachment_55250422" align="alignnone" width="620"] A picture taken on February 3, 2014, shows low-income Iranians lining up to receive…

Nikolay Kozhanov 25 June , 2014
Departure of the Jedi
Politics

Departure of the Jedi

[caption id="attachment_55250430" align="alignnone" width="620"] One of the original Star Wars filming locations in Tataouine, Tunisia. (Jean-Claude…

Youssef Cherif 25 June , 2014
A Matter of Business in Syria
Business & Economy

A Matter of Business in Syria

[caption id="attachment_55250405" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Syrian Kurdish policeman patrols the border between Syria and Iraq in the oil-rich…

Emma Pearson and Katie Welsford 24 June , 2014
Turkey's Game-Changer?
Politics

Turkey's Game-Changer?

[caption id="attachment_55250389" align="alignnone" width="620"] Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Ekmeledin İhsanoğlu. …

Nicholas Birch 23 June , 2014
Istanbul’s Open-Air Studio
Culture & Social Affairs

Istanbul’s Open-Air Studio

[caption id="attachment_55250374" align="alignnone" width="620"] The metal fence of a construction site is transformed into an art installation by…

Clarissa Pharr 21 June , 2014
Rouhani and his Opponents
Politics

Rouhani and his Opponents

[caption id="attachment_55250364" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivers a speech during a rally in Tehran's Azadi…

Shahir Shahid Saless 21 June , 2014
One Less Voice from Yemen
Politics

One Less Voice from Yemen

[caption id="attachment_55250360" align="alignnone" width="620"] A view of the deserted studios of a private TV channel Yemen Today after military…

Peter Salisbury 20 June , 2014
Truth Telling in Tunisia
Politics

Truth Telling in Tunisia

[caption id="attachment_55250343" align="alignnone" width="620"] Tunisians, who are also victims of torture, protest during a ceremony to unveil the…

Eileen Byrne 18 June , 2014
Counting on the Kurds
Politics

Counting on the Kurds

[caption id="attachment_55250325" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Iraqi man displays military badges at a shop in Erbil, the capital of the…

Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel 18 June , 2014
The Water’s Edge
Politics

The Water’s Edge

[caption id="attachment_55250331" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Palestinian boy squirts water from a tap in the street on March 20, 2014 as the…

Thomas W. Lippman 18 June , 2014
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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
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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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
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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