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Imane Khelif, Algeria's gold-medal winning Olympic boxer, had to fight not just opponents but online harassment over her gender. Axel Rangel García

Imane Khelif: the many fights of Algeria’s Olympic gold medallist

The first Arab and African woman to win Olympic boxing gold stepped into both a ring and a global culture war that reveals more about our divisive times than it does about sports or gender

Sawsan Jamil Hasan 12 August 2024

Eye-watering: playing host to the Games is not for shallow wallets

The cost of hosting the Olympics has varied massively in recent years, from Sochi’s $59.7bn in Russia to Salt Lake City’s $2.9bn in the United States. Yet while the cost can be huge, the economic…

Al Majalla - London 30 July 2024
Singer Celine Dion performing on the Eiffel Tower during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on July 26, 2024.

Celine Dion overcomes rain and illness to save Olympics opening

The legendary Canadian singer recently revealed her struggle with Stiff Person Syndrome in a moving documentary that showed how one's of the world's biggest stars now struggles to stand and walk.

Samer Abou Hawwach 28 July 2024
The French delegation attends the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Mexico City on 12 October 1968. Days earlier, hundreds of Mexican students had been shot and killed. EPU/AFP

Let the Games begin: Olympics tries to outrun its political shadow

For over a century, states' disagreements in other areas have spilled over into the world's highest profile sports arena, with boycotts and counter-boycotts. Al Majalla reviews a chequered history.

Sami Moubayed 25 July 2024
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Red Sea defence alliance: opportunities and challenges

08 August 2026

Does the declaration recently signed in Riyadh indicate a gradual transition towards a regional security architecture that will assume responsibilities long borne by external naval powers?

Amgad Fareid Eltayeb
The general manager of the Ras al-Khair water desalination plant inspects drinking water from a tap at the facility in eastern Saudi Arabia on 30 March 2023. FAYEZ NURELDINE / AFP
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The Gulf’s race for water security

10 August 2026

Desalination plants and strategic reservoirs are becoming sovereign assets, but this also makes them vulnerable to attack

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What the Makkah Agreement means for Syria

09 August 2026

The new military pact among Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Türkiye could potentially create a regional environment favourable to Damascus

Ibrahim Hamidi
Michigan Democratic Senate primary winner Abdul El-Sayed arrives at a press conference in front of the Spirit of Detroit statue on 5 August 2026, in Detroit, Michigan. Finn Gomez/AFP
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Abdul El-Sayed: the progressive Michigander who beat the pro-Israel lobby

07 August 2026

Come November, the Egyptian-American epidemiologist could become the first Muslim senator in US history, despite $70mn spent to defeat him in the Democratic primary

Tarek Rashed
Migrants walk towards the Fnideq region in northern Morocco after leaving Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta following an attempted crossing at the Bab Sebta border crossing, on the outskirts of Fnideq, on 1 August 2026. Abdel Majid BZIOUAT / AFP
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The Ceuta tragedy: illusory homelands and unattainable paradises

05 August 2026

Where social media offers magic solutions, the real world delivers slammed doors

Samer Abou Hawwach

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