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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 January 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 January 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 October 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 September 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 August 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 December 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 September 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 April 2023
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A municipal worker fixes a sign in Sharm el-Sheikh, as the Egyptian resort town gets ready to host a US-brokered Gaza peace summit, on October 12, 2025. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP
Politics

Gaza ceasefire takes off, but expect turbulence ahead

11 October 2025

Al Majalla lays out four key hurdles to clear to ensure the truce sticks this time around

Brian Katulis
Opinion

Syria’s new parliament raises old questions

11 October 2025

If exclusion and opacity persist, Syria risks reinforcing the very conditions that led to its collapse. It isn't just the legitimacy of one election cycle that's at stake, but the entire transition.

Haid Haid
Nesma Moharam
Politics

Two years after October 7

06 October 2025

Al Majalla examines the repercussions of Hamas's attack on Israel, which set into motion a series of significant changes and power shifts in the Middle East

Al Majalla - London
A deal being signed at the recently held  Cultural Investment Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on September 30, 2025. SPA
Business & Economy

Saudi Arabia ramps up investment in culture

08 October 2025

Whether in cinema or heritage, there are dozens of big cultural projects that investors are interested in, as the sector increasingly contributes towards growth and development.

Turki Harbi
Iranian writer and translator Hamid Reza Mohajerani Supplied
Culture & Social Affairs

Hamid Reza Mohajerani on the shared heritage of Farsi and Arabic

07 October 2025

In an interview with Al Majalla, the Iranian writer and translator explains why he learned Arabic, its similarities and differences with Farsi, and how politics can stifle creativity

Abdul Rahman Mazhar Halloush

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