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A US dollar note is placed on a stack of Syrian pounds at a market in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeast Syria on September 10, 2019. AFP / Delil SOULEIMAN

Rebuilding Syria's economy will be challenging but comes with reward

Estimates of reconstruction costs range up to $500bn, and most Syrians only get a few hours of electricity per day. The country's priorities are numerous and urgent, but amid the gloom, there is hope.

Abdelkader Hasria 27, Jan 2025
Diana Estefanía Rubio

Oil and gas remain the cornerstone of global energy

Global energy demand in this year’s WOO is set to expand by 24% in the period to 2050, driven by significant expansion in the non-OECD region. The outlook sees the need for an expansion in all energy…

Al Majalla - London 07, Jan 2025
Diana Estefanía Rubio

Global demand for liquid fuel rising despite energy transition

Oil refineries play a key role in transforming crude oil into essential power sources that people need for their daily lives. As of 2024, there were 825 operational crude oil refineries in the world…

Al Majalla - London 22, Oct 2024
A peshmerga fighter poses in front of a wall with a large fresco of the flag of Kurdistan. The fort overlooks Artush, a major oil refinery. Getty

Baghdad cuts Kurdistan’s oil revenue and independence hopes

Erbil voted to go it alone in 2017, but that was when it controlled its own oil to sell through Turkey. Today, it does neither. With no partners on the horizon, it is left seeking central handouts.

Baraa Sabri 16, Sep 2024
A US Apache attack helicopter patrols above an oil production facility near al-Malikiyah (Derik) in Syria's north-eastern
Hasakah province on October 27, 2020. Delil Souleiman/AFP

Syria’s oil industry was once booming. Could it be again?

War sent oil firms running while the loss of territorial control in the oil- and gas-rich north-east left the Kurds with the hydrocarbons and Damascus reliant on Iran. Will the good times roll again?

Manaf Saad 17, Aug 2024
A Bolivarian militia member at a polling station during the referendum on Venezuelan sovereignty over the Esquibo region, in Caracas on December 3. AFP

Why oil and politics are re-igniting an old conflict between Venezuela and Guyana

The world faces a renewed geopolitical fault line in South America. Borders drawn by colonial powers cross disputed territory now rich in resources. Fears of war are real, but open conflict unlikely.

Paul Achkar 16, Dec 2023
Al Majalla outlines the main factors for the decision by Saudi Arabia and Russia to cut oil production and how this could impact the upcoming US elections. Agencies/Majalla

Production cuts and price rises put oil back at the centre of global politics

Al Majalla outlines the main factors behind Saudi Arabia and Russia's decision to cut oil production and how this could impact the upcoming US elections

Khaled Hamadeh 16, Sep 2023
Oil reserves in Sudan and South Sudan remain underutilised, largely due to war. Meanwhile, lack of stability has curbed potential foreign investment in East Africa's oil fields. Ewan White

The massive untapped potential of East Africa’s oil reserves

Oil reserves in Sudan and South Sudan remain underutilised, largely due to war. Meanwhile, lack of stability has curbed potential foreign investment in East Africa's oil fields.

Faisal Faeq 26, May 2023
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Saudi Arabia’s economy broadens as public spending powers reform

Saudi Arabia's first-quarter budget figures reflect a steadily diversifying the economy, reducing reliance on oil as the country's main source of income, and boosting opportunities the private sector

Shujaa Albogmi 16, May 2023
A worker at a primitive oil refinery poses for a picture at the facility in the town of al-Qahtaniya in Syria's Kurdish-controlled northeastern Hasakah province, near the border with Turkey, on November 15, 2021. Getty Images

Syria looks to Libya oil deal as blueprint to access vital revenue stream

With more than 15 million Syrians in need of aid an agreement to resurrect oil production may be the answer with Libya setting the precedent

Ibrahim Hamidi 29, Apr 2023
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Iran’s waning influence

27 June 2025

Our July issue features in-depth articles and expert analyses exploring the future of Iran's influence and the long-term reverberations for the region

Al Majalla - London
Lina Jaradat
Culture & Social Affairs

Gaza’s ‘death trap’ aid distribution centres: a real-life Hunger Games

02 July 2025

Israel's commandeering of aid distribution in Gaza forces starving Palestinians to run the gauntlet at centres with biometric monitoring systems, armed security, and life-or-death hazards

Hala Al-Naji
People gather to celebrate after Lebanese parliament elects army chief Joseph Aoun as the new president, on January 9, 2025, in Al-Aaishiyah, Lebanon. Ramiz Dallah/Getty
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Lebanon’s second chance at statehood

02 July 2025

The crippling of Hezbollah's dominance and the Assad regime's fall in Syria has opens a narrow but historic opening for the Lebanese people

Paul Salem
Lina Jaradat
Business & Economy

Oman is quietly redefining its development model

29 June 2025

It is no longer the Gulf's quiet outlier but a country quietly setting a new standard for sustainable economic development in the region

Neil Quilliam
Politics

Rabbi behind the Abraham Accords: Trump key to Israel-Syria peace

30 June 2025

American Rabbi Abraham Cooper has just met Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus, weeks after meeting Syria's foreign minister in New York. Al Majalla went to ask his thoughts.

Ibrahim Hamidi

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