Seen from Washington, the map of Iraq's Kurdistan Region appears deceptively simple: oil and gas fields, pipelines, companies and investments,…

Beirut’s tangled web of electrical cables has long served as fertile visual material for contemporary Lebanese art, stirring the imaginations of…

​At Villa Azad in Cairo, Yemeni artist Hakim Al-Aqel presented two collections of paintings. The exhibition, Between Endless Chants and Star…

Mobile phones are now an essential tool for protests. They are used to spread the word, identify gathering places, exchange information, and document…

Al Majalla has learned that the Islamic State (IS) plans to dramatically step up attacks in Iraq in the coming months, to spread shock and fear…

The French government’s hopes of containing the country’s secondary school protests appear to have been dashed, as the movement retained momentum…

From southern Lebanon to the Golan Heights and the West Bank, military invasions and occupation are creating new realities on the ground and pushing…

It has become a cliché in Israel to say the country is “stuck on October 7”: unable to move on to 8 October; unable to return to 6 October. Moving…

Israel’s Bar Lev Line was supposed to be unbreakable. The chain of fortified strongpoints running the length of the Suez Canal was built after the…

Just as in many other parts of the world, football commands an interest and a passion in Arab societies that is rarely rivalled by alternatives. This…