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Lina Jaradat

Fake economic news hits states where it hurts

The spread of online rumours is thought to cost tens of billions of dollars a year, with some countries more susceptible than others

Marcelle Nasr 14 October 2025
Al Majalla

How Saudi Arabia harnessed its oil boom to foster development

The first in a two-part series explains how the country capitalised on its black gold decades ago to expand its economy horizontally, a stunning success that paved the way for Vision 2030

Hussein al-Sharaa 14 August 2025
A currency exchange agent counts Iraqi Dinars at his company in Iraq's southern city of Basra, on December 12, 2023. Hussein Faleh / AFP

To tackle the future, the Iraqi Development Fund needs to break with the past

In an interview with Al Majalla, the fund's director says he is working to increase private sector investment while trying to lay the groundwork for a more educated population

Shelly Kittleson 25 November 2024
The high-speed Buraq train, at Tangier railway station. Shutterstock

Bidders eye Moroccan rail as transformative $37bn project sets off

Companies from France, Spain, Britain, China, South Korea are vying for a share of the work as the Kingdom bets big on trains to drive its economic development ambitions on a continental scale

Mohamed Sharki 18 September 2024
Algeria is the third largest supplier of natural gas to Europe, with a market share of about 8% AFP

Pretence and illusion: Arab countries and privatisation

An analysis of several Arab states' past efforts to privatise certain industries and the obstacles that they encountered.

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 01 January 2024
Robust national capacities, the strength of institutions, and education and skills development should be at the top of the agenda in 2024 as the Kingdom pushes forward with Vision 2030 Axel Rangel Garcia

Charting Saudi Arabia’s path through sustainable economic transformation

Robust national capacities, the strength of institutions, and education and skills development should be at the top of the agenda in 2024 as the Kingdom pushes forward with Vision 2030

Hazar Caracalla 07 November 2023
Volunteers with the Emergency Food Bank and members of the California National Guard deliver food to needy families and individuals who are reeling from the economic impact due to the pandemic in Stockton on Dec. 10, 2020. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Individualism Makes Us Altruistic and Happy

Individualism is good, collectivism is bad. That’s what I first concluded as a teenager after reading Friedrich Hayek’s seminal treatise, “The Road to Serfdom.” Every life experience since then has…

Andreas Kluth 11 July 2021
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Eduardo Ramon
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Trump has lost the Iran war, but how badly?

20 April 2026

While all the effects of this conflict may take time to fully realise, short and medium-term signs expose the limits of US power and see America's rivals benefiting

Christopher Phillips
Jason Lyon
Business & Economy

The Iran war is reshaping the China-Gulf economic model

21 April 2026

Closing the Strait of Hormuz has shown how the Gulf should shift from an oil-export model to a digital and distribution hub. Will this trigger the long-delayed free trade agreement with China?

Charbel Barakat
Pete Reynolds
Politics

Lebanon and Israel: negotiations and the end of Hezbollah

23 April 2026

Building on the ten-day ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump, time will tell if these talks are a one-off or the beginning of a different path for Lebanon.

Al Majalla - London
Grace Russell
Science & Technology

Saving the soldiers: robots as Ukraine’s new weapon

22 April 2026

The war in Ukraine is becoming an open laboratory for testing advanced military technologies that may yet redefine the very meaning of combat

Marco Mossad
Nesma Moharam
Culture & Social Affairs

New book tackles the fading art of Koranic recitation

20 April 2026

Egyptian heritage researcher Haytham Abu Zayd sheds light on how the art form grew, excelled, and then declined over the years and ends by offering a path to revival

Fadi El-Abdallah

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