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A model of a solar farm at the Masdar City pavilion at the World Energy Summit, Abu Dhabi, January 18, 2012.
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Masdar's profitability shows momentum in the Gulf energy transition

The UAE's leading renewable energy company has demonstrated that commercially viable clean energy ventures can emerge from state-backed initiatives when policy, market conditions, and execution align

Neil Quilliam 02 September 2025
Solar-powered lights on a mountain road in Lebanon.
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Powering the periphery: how renewables are reshaping rural development in the Arab world

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

Jessica Obeid 07 August 2025
Regional collaboration is crucial for a sustainable and resilient future. From electricity grid interconnections to cross-border investments in renewable energy, working together is vital. Shutterstock

Made in MENA: localising clean energy value chains

Amid geopolitical tensions and supply chain shocks, the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA), led by the Gulf, has a strategic opportunity to localise clean energy manufacturing.

Jessica Obeid 15 July 2025
Diana Estefanía Rubio

Renewable energy leads global FDI in 2024

In a year marked by economic realignment and strategic restraint, global investors in 2024 made it clear: the future lies in clean technology, connectivity, and semiconductors, commonly referred to…

Al Majalla - London 01 July 2025
An $8bn project in the Suez Canal Economic Zone shows Egypt's ambitions to become a global leader in green hydrogen. But with high set-up costs and a huge debt burden, Cairo can’t yet go at it alone. Al Majalla

Egypt's green energy ambitions point to promising future

An $8bn project in the Suez Canal Economic Zone shows Egypt's ambitions to become a global leader in green hydrogen. But with high set-up costs and a huge debt burden, Cairo can't yet go at it alone.

Marcelle Nasr 27 January 2024
Regional collaboration is crucial for a sustainable and resilient future. From electricity grid interconnections to cross-border investments in renewable energy, working together is vital. Shutterstock

The complexity of future energy systems and the need for regional collaboration

Regional collaboration is crucial for a sustainable and resilient future. From electricity grid interconnections to cross-border investments in renewable energy, working together is vital.

Jessica Obeid 11 October 2023
Britain is currently planning to work with Morocco to build the largest renewable electricity grid, in line with energy transition plans and addressing climate change challenges, at a cost of $22bn. Ewan White

Morocco to light up Britain

Britain is currently planning to work with Morocco to build the largest renewable electricity grid, in line with energy transition plans and addressing climate change challenges, at a cost of $22bn.

Mohamed Sharki 22 June 2023
A view of work around an 84-metre well being dug to draw seawater that will be desalinated using solar power at the resort area of Marsa Shagra near Marsa Alam on Egypt's southern Red Sea coastline, Egypt, October 18, 2021. Picture taken October 18, 2021. REUTERS/Aidan Lewis

Egypt To Build 21 Desalination Plants in Phase 1 of Scheme - Sovereign Fund

Egypt plans to award deals next year to build 21 water desalination plants in the first $3 billion phase of a program that will draw on renewable energy, the CEO of the country's sovereign fund said…

01 December 2022
Solar panels are installed on the rooftops of residential houses in Modhera, India's first round-the-clock solar-powered village, in the western state of Gujarat, India, October 19, 2022. REUTERS/Sunil Kataria

India's First Fully Solar Village Lights Up The Lives of Poor Residents

Kesa Bhai Prajapati beams with a smile as he molds blocks of clay into jugs and vases on a potter's wheel. These days, Prajapati, 68, from the village of Modhera in western India's Gujarat state,…

01 November 2022
Lightsource BP's floating installation is seen at the Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir, in Britain, in this undated photo released by Lightsource BP on April 3, 2019. Lightsource BP/Handout via REUTERS/Files

Britain's Lightsource BP Races To Hook Solar Farms To Batteries

Lightsource BP aims to rapidly grow battery capacity at its solar farms around the world to reach 4 gigawatts (GW) by 2025 in order to store and supply power at night and on cloudy days, the British…

25 October 2022
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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

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Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa (L) visits the polling station where members of Syrian local committees have been casting their votes to select members of an interim parliament, in Damascus on October 5, 2025. LOUAI BESHARA / AFP
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Cheers and jeers as Syria votes in first post-Assad parliament

06 October 2025

Only 4% of 119 members selected in the indirect vote were women, and only two Christians, sparking concerns about inclusivity and fairness. Meanwhile, voting was postponed in Druze and Kurdish areas.

Subhi Franjieh
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Allies' anger over Gaza tests US support for Israel

03 October 2025

Trump may be willing to accept global isolation to keep supporting Israel, but at some point, he may conclude that he isn't getting enough from Netanyahu in return

Christopher Phillips
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Med market? Europe eyes closer trade with North Africa

01 October 2025

After being hit by tariffs from its Washington ally, Brussels is seeking to diversify its business partners. Across the Mediterranean Sea, states offer labour, materials, and markets

Mohamed Sharki
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Palestinian artist breathes life and meaning into Jaffa’s shoreline shards

03 October 2025

Mohammad Qundus uses the fragments of former lives in his latest exhibition that seeks to reaffirm the Palestinian presence of today and its connection to the past

Houssam Marouf

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