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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 Ramón
Documents & Memoirs

Exclusive interview with the man who caught Eli Cohen

30, Sep 2026

Ibrahim Hamidi spent years following the story of Mossad's 'spy in Damascus ', but some secrets remained untold. He then learned that the man who could answer them was still alive

Ibrahim Hamidi
A supporters of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a Brazilian flag after a closing campaign rally, one day before the general election, in Sao Paulo, on 3 October, 2026. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
Politics

Who will be Brazil’s next president?

04, Oct 2026

Neither Lula nor Bolsonaro won an outright majority, so the two men will face off on 25 October in an election that could serve as a bellwether of Donald Trump's influence in Latin America

The Economist
Opinion

Russia boosts its defence budget with an eye on Europe

02, Oct 2026

Putin seems to have concluded that to secure a decisive victory in Ukraine, he needs to go after the countries in Europe that are supporting Kyiv

Con Coughlin
A digital billboard displays fuel prices at a petrol station in Berlin on 2 October 2026. John MACDOUGALL / AFP
Business & Economy

G7 agrees to release 100 million barrels of reserve diesel

03, Oct 2026

Analysts believe that Trump is hoping to lower domestic fuel prices before the November midterm elections, which could see Democrats win a majority of seats in Congress

Alexandra Sharp
A US Navy sailor directs a Eurocopter AS-332 Super Puma helicopter on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which is supporting US military operations in the war with Iran on 16 August 2026. US. Navy/REUTERS
Politics

US troops leave Iraq, but double down in the region

30, Sep 2026

Why 30 September should be understood less as a US exit from the Middle East than as the end of a particular model of American intervention

Caroline Rose

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