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Mo Amer in 'Mo' Eddy Chen/Netflix

‘Mo’: a rare humanization of Palestinians on mainstream TV

Now streaming on Netflix, Season 2 delves deeper into the fight for freedom far from Palestine, shining a light on refugee pain and their longing for the homeland

Nawwar Jabbour 17 March 2025
The Fall of the House of Usher Credit: Eike Schroter (Netflix)

Netflix horror series does great justice to Edgar Allan Poe classic

A look at a recent TV horror series and its links to the original short story 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by the famed 19th-century author and father of Gothic horror.

Nawwar Jabbour 27 December 2023
A still from Netflix's docuseries 'Spy Ops'. Netflix

Netflix docuseries ‘Spy Ops’ explores top global espionage operations

A look inside the eight-episode docuseries 'Spy Ops' on Netflix explores some of the most high-profile covert intelligence operations that rocked the world.

Ibrahim Haj Abdi 03 November 2023
Netflix

Netflix’s "Black Mirror" is back with a more subtle shock value

A rich and rebellious season has been greeted with underwhelmed reviews on social media, in a world where real-life events have made it harder for satirists to shock with provocative fiction

Areej Jamal 26 July 2023
Cleopatra (Adele James) rules over the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Queen Cleopatra (2023) Netflix

Netflix docuseries sparks debate and anger over Cleopatra's skin colour

The associated controversy surrounding the docuseries has stirred debate over Cleopatra's true origins and physical features

Areej Jamal 19 April 2023
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Changing Baghdad’s locks: US pressure key to breaking Iran’s grip

03 August 2025

Is Iraq finally stepping out from under Iran's shadow? Al Majalla covers the story from different angles and perspectives.

Al Majalla - London
Hidaya, a 31-year-old Palestinian mother, carries her sick 18-month-old son Mohammed al-Mutawaq, who is also displaying signs of malnutrition, inside their tent at the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, on July 24, 2025. Omar AL-QATTAA/AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

The culmination of policy: Israel’s use of starvation in Gaza

07 August 2025

What began 18 years ago is coming to a head today: the intentional, purposeful denial of food as a biological weapon that kills a population slowly, after first breaking its will

Hala Al-Naji
UN Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (OCHA) Under-Secretary-General Tom Fletcher holds the
Global Humanitarian Overview 2025 report during a press conference in Geneva on December 3, 2024. Elodie le Maou / AFP
Profiles

Tom Fletcher: the senior UN man calling out Israeli 'cynicism'

03 August 2025

A former British diplomat now advising the UN Security Council has accused Israel of "making starvation a bargaining chip". Surprise, surprise, this did not go down well in Tel Aviv. Who is he?

Con Coughlin
Solar-powered lights on a mountain road in Lebanon.
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Business & Economy

Powering the periphery: how renewables are reshaping rural development in the Arab world

07 August 2025

Beyond the flashy projects of the Gulf, a quieter contribution to the energy transition is underway across North Africa and the Levant

Jessica Obeid
Jason Lyon
Science & Technology

Could China gatecrash the US-Gulf AI wedding?

09 August 2025

America offers the technology and the know-how, while the Gulf brings the capital and the energy, but are the Gulf states putting all their AI eggs in the US basket?

Shirley Ze Yu

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