Popes on the big screen: how cinema has depicted the pontiff

Al Majalla gives an overview of some of the most noteworthy films and TV shows about the pope

Shadi Alaa Aldin

Fighting For More Representation

It was around this time seven years ago that Gina Rodriguez was deemed the “It” girl out of the Sundance Film Festival with her role as a struggling East L.A. rapper in the hip-hop drama “Filly…

Yvonne Villarreal

Melancholia ad Aegyptum

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Iason Athanasiadis

Turkey’s Bid for Religious Leadership

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Gonul Tol

How a World Order Ends

Astable world order is a rare thing. When one does arise, it tends to come after a great convulsion that creates both the conditions and the desire for something new. It requires a stable…

Richard Haass

When Empires End

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Maya Jasanoff