At an earlier age, boys and girls both attend school, but males increasingly drop out in their mid-teens, and now seven out of every ten Tunisian university students are women. Why is this?
Published posthumously, 'Journey of Long Distances' by Mohammed bin Nasser Al-Aboudi adds to a rich canon of works chronicling Muslim communities around the world
The Egyptian novelist—one of the Arab world's renowned writers of epic fiction—reveals the details of his craft to Al Majalla as the fourth book in his 'River' series captures a key moment
In a world weighed down by oppression and injustice, Fawwaz Haddad's rich new character-driven novel chronicles the fate of a homeland ensnared by the corrupt Ba'athist regime
Recent books from Yemen, Egypt, and Syria take a new look at the 10th-century philosopher's famed letter 'The Epistle of Forgiveness', which is said to have inspired Dante's 'Divine Comedy'
There was visible warmth when the US and Syrian presidents met in the Oval Office last month, with some even speculating a Trump visit to Damascus. But there is much to do before that happens.
Following the unprecedented attacks on Qatar, Gulf leaders have pledged to forge a unified defence front, marking a historic shift from cautious neutrality to collective security
What began as a locally rooted trade in coca leaves and opium evolved into a transnational system of cartels that challenged governments, corrupted institutions, and destabilised countries
When Israel killed a Hezbollah military chief in late November, one GBU-39 bomb failed to detonate, leaving Washington worried that its adversaries could reverse engineer it
With her collection 'Con' having won Spain's 2025 National Poetry Prize, the Galician writer spoke to Al Majalla about the process of creation as she works on her first novel.