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Infected by Panic
Politics

Infected by Panic

[caption id="attachment_55250274" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Indian worker wears a mouth and nose mask as he touches a camel at his Saudi…

James Spencer 18 June , 2014
Exporting Lebanon’s Nightlife
Culture & Social Affairs

Exporting Lebanon’s Nightlife

[caption id="attachment_55250321" align="alignnone" width="620"] Lebanese drink and dance at the world famous rooftop Sky Bar on July 21, 2013 in…

Mona Alami 17 June , 2014
The Sultan’s Reign ends with a Bang
Politics

The Sultan’s Reign ends with a Bang

[caption id="attachment_55250305" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Still from Magnificent Century (Muhteşem Yüzyıl/TIMS Productions)[/caption]It was…

Ahu Özyurt 16 June , 2014
Syria Speaks
Culture & Social Affairs

Syria Speaks

[caption id="attachment_55250295" align="alignnone" width="620"] Opening night of Syria Speaks tour at Rich Mix in London, Wednesday June 11, 2014. …

Tam Hussein 13 June , 2014
Iran’s Political Football
Politics

Iran’s Political Football

[caption id="attachment_55250279" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iran's national football team coach Portuguese Carlos Queiroz (R) commands a…

David Patrikarakos 12 June , 2014
The Gulf and the Beautiful Game
Politics

The Gulf and the Beautiful Game

[caption id="attachment_55250236" align="alignnone" width="620"] Foreign workers shine a bronze sculpture by French Algerian born artist Adel…

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen 11 June , 2014
The Flower Seller of Aleppo
Culture & Social Affairs

The Flower Seller of Aleppo

[caption id="attachment_55250246" align="alignnone" width="620"] Krikor in Yerevan, Armenia. (Hannah Lucinda Smith)[/caption] “Flowers, I love…

Hannah Lucinda Smith 11 June , 2014
Bartering over Iraq's Future
Politics

Bartering over Iraq's Future

[caption id="attachment_55250238" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Iraqi man reads a local newspaper the day after results revealed that Iraqi Prime…

James Denselow 10 June , 2014
New Representatives for Turkey’s Kurds
Politics

New Representatives for Turkey’s Kurds

[caption id="attachment_55250221" align="alignnone" width="620"] Families of Ozgur and Berat Cetiner (15), who were kidnapped by the PKK, stage a sit…

Mehmet Solmaz 08 June , 2014
The Power of Words
Culture & Social Affairs

The Power of Words

[caption id="attachment_55250212" align="alignnone" width="620"] Mohamed Aly Talibab performing live. (Still from Youtube, Ahmed Mekawy photography)[…

Goos Hofstee 06 June , 2014
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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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