Africa is experiencing the world’s worst vaccine deficit. Only a minority of countries—mostly those where vaccines are manufactured—are approaching adequate levels of vaccination. But Africa is…
In recent years, toymaker Mattel has responded to criticism about the Barbie doll's role in creating an unrealistic picture of womanhood. The company now designs dolls inspired by professions as…
In a parable in the Han dynasty philosophical text The Huainanzi, a fool goes to the market to buy a pair of shoes. Finding the shoes too small, he cuts off his toes rather than admit that the shoes…
After a week-long confusion in Europe over the safety of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, Oxford immunologist-vaccinologist Dr. Ahmed Salman spoke to Majalla about the scientific and…
By now, it has become clear that the means to end the COVID-19 pandemic will reach people in poor countries far later than they will get to people in wealthy ones. Only one of the 29 poorest…
For the second time in two decades, an international crisis looms over access to medicines. A small number of wealthy nations, includingthe United States, have spent billions of dollars locking up…
At this historic moment in time, the COVID-19 global pandemic has already caused the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives and disrupted the lives of billions more. Introduction of a vaccine is…
The president-elect's upcoming Oval Office return is good news for Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right cabinet and bad news for Palestinians in Gaza under Israel's unrelenting air strikes
The recent flurry of visits between Syrian and Iranian officials reflects a calculated effort by both sides to project unity and recalibrate their relationship
A fierce critic of the Left, Badenoch made history by becoming the first black woman to lead a British political party, and she has a plan to reverse the Conservative Party's fortunes
The ruling has unnerved tenants, but it won't go into effect until June of next year, giving time for the state to come up with alternative safety measures for society's most vulnerable
The Nobel Prize-winning novel takes readers on a journey through the landscape of memory and pain, revisiting an evil committed three-quarters of a century ago to illuminate the present