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Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny performs during Super Bowl LX Patriots vs Seahawks Apple Music Halftime Show at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, on 8 February 2026. JOSH EDELSON / AFP

Bad Bunny: the unapologetic Puerto Rican pop star

The six-time Grammy Award-winner ruffled MAGA feathers during his Super Bowl performance by singing entirely in Spanish, which, to some, was seen as an affront to 'American' identity

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra 21 February 2026
AFP / Al Majalla

Dina Powell: politics, capital, and Meta’s AI ambitions

Her appointment as president of Meta signals a strategic turn away from product-centric leadership towards the management of power, capital, and geopolitics

Marco Mossad 09 February 2026
Kevin Warsh lectures at Stanford University School of Business, New York, on 8 July 2017. Reuters

Kevin Warsh: a more Trump-friendly Fed chair?

As US monetary policy enters a new phase and amid White House pressure for the Fed to lower interest rates, a trusted Wall Street insider with government experience has been asked to step up

Toufic Chanbour 02 February 2026
AFP

Stephen Miller: Trump's ideologue-in-chief

The White House deputy chief of staff for policy has backed violent ICE raids, cheered Maduro's seizure, and supported Trump's bid to 'take' Greenland

Con Coughlin 01 February 2026
Karagh Byrne

Jens-Frederik Nielsen: the Greenlandic premier standing up to Trump

Trump made no secret of his desire for the US to 'own' Greenland and has threatened to take over the frigid Arctic island 'the easy way or the hard way', but its people do not want to become American

Con Coughlin 25 January 2026
Ali Shaath during a press interview with a local radio station.
 Reuters

Ali Shaath: Gaza’s technocrat of reconstruction

Responsibility for the enclave's reconstruction has been placed in the hands of an experienced civil engineer native to Gaza

Mohammed Najib 17 January 2026
Venezuela's Vice President Delcy Rodríguez speaks during a press conference in Caracas on 8 September 2025. Federico PARRA / AFP

Delcy Rodríguez and Venezuela’s politics of survival

Venezuela's vice president is known for having a diplomatic style that is confrontational in tone but cautious in substance, and pursuing a strategy that marries public defiance with quiet pragmatism

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra 05 January 2026
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gestures at a protest ahead of the Friday inauguration of President Nicolas Maduro for his third term, in Caracas, Venezuela, on 9 January 2025. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria

Who is Venezuela opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado?

The recent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize has been a fierce critic of Maduro, with Trump saying he has been 'helping her for years'

Con Coughlin 03 January 2026
Liverpool's Egyptian football star Mo Salah joined in 2017 and has helped his side to two Premier League titles. Some now wonder whether he will finish his career in Saudi Arabia. AFP/Reuters/Al Majalla

Mo Salah: Egyptian football superstar considers his future

One of the world's best players in recent years, the striker is now 33 and after a few poor games, he found himself on the substitutes' bench. It was a long journey to here. Where next?

Mohamed Qutob 21 December 2025
Jensen Huang has built NVIDIA into the world's most valuable company. It is also one of the most important. Al Majalla/AFP

Jensen Huang: from washing pots to steering the AI revolution

The founder of NVIDIA has matched vision with hard work for more than three decades. Today, the world's biggest tech firms rely in his company's chips. No wonder he has Donald Trump's ear.

Marco Mossad 14 December 2025
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Houthis seek expansion after reaching Bab al-Mandab

17 September 2026

After rapid advances, the Yemeni rebel group is fortifying its positions along the vital maritime chokepoint, while intensifying pressure in southwestern Taiz, northern Lahj, and Marib

Ibrahim Jalal
Macklemore performs onstage during the ibis RockCorps France 2024 at Accor Arena on 29 May 2024, in Paris, France. Kristy Sparow/Getty Images
Culture & Social Affairs

Backlash over Macklemore ban shows major US culture shift

16 September 2026

The American rapper's removal from Ed Sheeran's tour over his 'Free Palestine' speech and the British singer's meek rebuttal sparked an uproar on social media

Samer Abou Hawwach
Axel Rangel García
Politics

Francesca Albanese: the Palestine question is a global one

16 September 2026

In an interview with Al Majalla, the UN Special Rapporteur says the backlash against her for speaking out against Israel's genocide in Gaza reveals much about the current international order

Elie Kossaifi
Al Majalla
Business & Economy

AI data centres: the costliest infrastructure race in history?

16 September 2026

Investment could reach $50tn by 2050, but electricity, semiconductors and data laws will determine where the factories of the new economy are built

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi shares a moment with Russian President Vladimir Putin as Chinese President Xi Jinping looks on during day two of the BRICS Summit in New Delhi, India, on 13 September 2026. REUTERS
Politics

Only China, India, and Russia can end the Iran war

15 September 2026

Washington needs its rivals to create peace on its behalf

Amir Handjani

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