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"Barbie" tackles big issues like gender inequality, consumerism, and capitalism. Al Majalla explores these issues — and the ones it doesn't deal with. Michelle Thompson

“Barbie” sends a powerful message, but the real world needs more than lectures

"Barbie" tackles big issues like gender inequality, consumerism, and capitalism. Al Majalla explores these issues — and the ones it doesn't deal with.

Samer Abou Hawwach 01 August 2023
In this era of growing awareness, how are cinema and television dramas approaching cases of sexual abuse and highlighting the nuances in meaning between harassment, rape or consent? Michelle Thompson

Sexual abuse gets more screen time in #MeToo era

How cinema and television dramas are telling the stories of sexual abuse and highlighting the nuances between harassment, rape, and consent in an era of growing awareness

Areej Jamal 25 May 2023
History is riddled with stories of ambitious women who emerge from the shadow of their powerful husbands to have political careers of their own. Albane Simon

From Madame Mao to Evita: A look at some of the most influential first ladies of history

History is riddled with stories of ambitious women who emerge from the shadow of their powerful husbands to have political careers of their own

Manaf Saad 28 April 2023
A picture taken on December 23, 2017 shows portraits of victims of gender-based violence during a candle vigil to raise awareness over violence against women, outside Beirut's National Museum. Getty Images

Yet another woman killed by her husband

Assessment of the situation regarding violence against women in the Middle East including legal protections and cultural influences

Fayza Diab 09 April 2023
An Afghan man walks past a wall mural in Fayzabad district of Badakhshan province on February 6, 2023. AFP

Nearly two years after Taliban takeover, Afghans say they are tired and scared

Interviewees express exasperation over living under Taliban rule, especially regarding the severe restrictions on girls and women

Shelly Kittleson 02 April 2023
While the state has been on a steady path towards women empowerment, the Saudi Vision 2030 has turned steps into giant leaps Eleanor Shakespeare

Saudi Arabia is embracing the aspiring woman

While the state has been on a steady path towards women empowerment, the Saudi Vision 2030 has turned steps into giant leaps

Abeer Albraheem 07 March 2023
Recent protests sparked by the murder of Mahsa Amini demonstrate the power of Iranian women and their long legacy of combatting oppression Eduardo Ramon

A culture of resistance: Iranian women's revolution is a fine art

The iconography of Mahsa exemplifies the nature of the Iranian woman who never ceases to create hope, art, and culture in her life, and even in her death

Shadi Alaa Aldin 01 February 2023
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IRGC soldiers march during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran on 22 September, 2018. AFP
Politics

The US-Iran war could empower the IRGC

09 March 2026

When states are attacked, authority gravitates towards institutions capable of mobilising resources, enforcing discipline, and coordinating a military response

Alex Vatanka
A picture of Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, displayed on a screen in Tehran, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, on 9 March 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
Politics

Iran’s defiant regime picks a new supreme leader

09 March 2026

The appointment suggests the Revolutionary Guards have the upper hand

The Economist
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian is greeted by Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi during the D-8 summit in Cairo, Egypt, on 19 December 2024. AFP
Politics

Egypt fears an unrestrained Israel if Iran collapses

06 March 2026

Cairo and Tehran have been at loggerheads since 1979, but the Iranian threat has always acted as a check on Israeli ambitions. If Iran is completely defeated, Israel will reign supreme.

Amr Emam
A boy plays with his sheep next to an unexploded missile that landed in an open field on the outskirts of Qamishli, eastern Syria, on 5 March 2026. DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFP
Business & Economy

Syria may escape war but not its economic fallout

08 March 2026

Even if it stays on the sidelines of the US-Iran war, the country is fragile. Unlike larger economies that can absorb shocks in global markets, it has little room to cushion the impact.

Haid Haid
The displaced Palestinian Abu Mustafa family sits together as they break the dawn-to-dusk Ramadan fast during Iftar in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on 26 February 2026. Photo by EYAD BABA / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Ramadan in Gaza: food scarcity compounds suffering

03 March 2026

The iftar table, if it still exists, no longer represents joy, but anxiety and scarcity

Hala Al-Naji

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