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Netflix series on Saudi Pro League shows a sports transformation

Camera crews go behind the scenes at the Kingdom's top clubs to reveal the impact of global football superstars joining the league, starting with Cristiano Ronaldo at the end of 2022

Turki Harbi 18 December 2024
The Saudi capital, Riyadh, on November 15, 2024. Reuters

Saudi Arabia’s 2025 budget balances spending with stability

Another deficit is likely, but it will be in line with EU standards, say Saudi ministers keen to keep investing in the Kingdom's economic diversification away from oil and towards Vision 2030

Maher Chmaytelli 11 December 2024
King Abdullah Financial Center Station Royal Commission for the City of Riyadh

With its new metro, Riyadh opens a cultural window

The humble metro has transformed the world's great cities, inspiring artists and writers along the way. The Saudi capital could be opening both a sustainable future and a city icon.

Sawsan Jamil Hasan 08 December 2024
Barry Falls

Riyadh Summit could yet shape the dynamics of a multipolar world

To realise its immense potential as a cohesive pole in this new global order, the Islamic world needs to decide on the best way forward. Inspiration can be found in the Abbasid model

Aleksandr Dugin 21 November 2024
Diana Estefanía Rubio

PIF: The main driver of Saudi Arabia's economic transformation

The PIF has been the primary driver for meeting the needs of Vision 2030, attracting foreign investments, and enhancing local content by increasing the private sector's contribution to its portfolio…

Al Majalla - London 17 October 2024
Nash Weerasekera

Saudi Arabia's economy has what it takes to weather any storm

Saudi Arabia heads into 2025 with recalibrated yet sharpened ambitions, enhanced credibility, and greater capacity to manage crises, not least those erupting on its doorstep.

Khaled Kassar 17 October 2024
Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari receives Saudi investment minister Khalid Al-Falih SPA

Saudi Arabia's $2.2bn investment deepens economic ties with Pakistan

Top-level political backing for the Kingdom's latest support for its ally adds to hope that more is to come after a top-level signing ceremony this month

Kaswar Klasra 16 October 2024
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo, Egypt. SPA

Palestinian state, Red Sea security dominate Saudi-Egypt meet

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visits Cairo for the first time in over two years to discuss pressing regional developments as well as investment opportunities

Amr Emam 15 October 2024
Al Majalla

How Trump and Harris compare on Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Iran

Al Majalla outlines the common ground and key differences between the two presidential contenders on the three most consequential countries in the Middle East

Paul Salem 07 October 2024
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan (L) gives a joint press conference with his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty (R) at Tahrir Palace in the centre of Cairo on September 10, 2024. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP

An initial $5bn from Riyadh bolsters Saudi-Egyptian relations

New investments from the sovereign wealth fund and bilateral trade of $33bn means these two pivotal Arab states can continue enjoying mutually beneficial ties

Marcelle Nasr 02 October 2024
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Business & Economy

The Hormuz Strait: a vital oil lifeline to the world

17 March 2026

Geography, energy, history, and power converge in the most consequential chokepoint of the global economy

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
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Politics

The US-Iran war is mainly good news for Russia

19 March 2026

Rising oil prices will boost the Kremlin's coffers as costs over Ukraine mount, but a total defeat of Iran could lead to the deployment of radar stations in the north, near Russia's border

Anton Mardasov
Matt Murphy
Business & Economy

The skyrocketing cost of Epic Fury

19 March 2026

From military spending to energy markets, the US-Israeli war on Iran is driving rising costs, with the Strait of Hormuz emerging as a central pressure point

Thuraya Shahin
Sara Gironi Carnevale
Politics

US public opinion is decisively shifting against Israel

20 March 2026

Until fairly recently, most Americans sided with Israel. These days, most side with the Palestinians. That will eventually influence US foreign policy.

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy
A Palestinian volunteer works to rescue and restore damaged books and manuscripts inside the library of the Great Omari Mosque in Gaza City, on 26 February 2026.
 OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Cultural genocide: Israel's war on Palestinian memory

21 March 2026

By making Gaza unrecognisable, Israel aimed to sever an indigenous people from any physical or emotional connection to their homeland

Atef Abu Seif

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