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Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer attends a meeting with business leaders in central London on January 28, 2025. BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP
Business & Economy

Brexit has deepened the UK economy’s flaws and dulled its strengths

The Economist 03 January 2026
Ahmad Abu Dahman, the Saudi author of the internationally acclaimed novel 'The Belt', has died at the age of 76. AFP/Al Majalla
Culture & Social Affairs

What Saudi writer Ahmad Abu Dahman narrated in ‘The Belt’

Jaber Muhammad Madkhali 21 December 2025
Sara Padovan

How might US-Europe divergence impact the Middle East?

The upheaval in relations is accelerating changes in Europe's military and economic policies that will begin to impact its relations with the Arab world

Robert Ford 04 April 2025

Marie Le Pen banned from running in French presidential race

Fares Garabet 03 April 2025
Al Majalla

Black Sea truce inches efforts to end the Ukraine war forward

Steve Witkoff, Trump's personal envoy to the Middle East, says US officials are "bridging the gap between the two sides" and was upbeat that a comprehensive deal could be reached by 20 April

Con Coughlin 26 March 2025
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Nigel Farage: Britain's increasingly popular populist eyes the premiership

As voters grow frustrated with Labour and with Conservatives consigned to the political wilderness, the man who became the face of Brexit gets a spike in the polls

Con Coughlin 23 March 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and US President Donald Trump in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. Putin told Trump in a phone call on February 12, 2025, that "peaceful negotiations" on ending the Ukraine conflict were possible. Brendan Smialowski / AFP

Putin's 'Art of No Deal' in Ukraine

By placing conditions to ending the war, the Russian president seems to be stretching the negotiations to bait Trump into maintaining pressure on Kyiv and weakening Europe

Michael Horowitz 23 March 2025
Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner at the Bundesrat in Berlin on March 21, 2025. If, after the Bundestag, the Bundesrat also approves it, the way will be clear for the unprecedented borrowing for defence and infrastructure. John MACDOUGALL / AFP

Germany approves the biggest fiscal expansion in its post-war history

The country decides defence and infrastructure are worth borrowing for

The Economist 21 March 2025

Trump's leverage over Ukraine

Fares Garabet 13 March 2025
A woman wearing a jilbab with a bouquet of flowers in her hand walks down a street in the Barbes district in Paris on June 25, 2023. JOEL SAGET / AFP

A walk through Barbès, the migrants’ hub in the heart of Paris

The district has welcomed Arab immigrants for decades. A crossroads of cultures, smelling and tasting of home, it is also a special place in the lives of Algerian singers Warda and Rachid Taha.

Sohaib Ayoub 11 March 2025
US Marines on patrol in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom on February 4, 2012. shutterstock

How Afghanistan broke NATO and why it matters for Ukraine

Trump officials are united in anger at the failure of European member states to support one aborted mission. This explains their thinking on the Ukraine war.

Kamal Alam 10 March 2025
Al Majalla

Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The Ukrainian president who landed on Trump's bad side

The comedian-turned-wartime president became an international celebrity after Russia's invasion when most of the world stood by his side. But things look very different today with Trump in office.

Con Coughlin 09 March 2025
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The UN is dead: Chemillier-Gendreau on the collapse of international law

13 January 2026

In an interview with Al Majalla, the prominent French jurist discusses Israeli and Western duplicity, their violation of international law, and why Israel bears the cost of Gaza's reconstruction

Elie Kossaifi
Opinion

Would a US strike on Iran hurt or help protesters?

11 January 2026

A strike could be disastrous for the protestors, as it could harden the regime's resolve and that of its still-large support base across the country

Bilal Saab
Al Majalla
Politics

The Donroe Doctrine and the new hemispheric order

12 January 2026

Pressure builds on Venezuela after Trump appoints himself 'acting president'. With Colombia, Mexico and Cuba seemingly also in the line of fire, they will be closely watching what happens in Caracas.

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra
Yasser Al-Rumayyan, Governor of the Public Investment Fund, delivers a speech during the third edition of the Future Investment Initiative, in Riyadh on 28 October 2025. AFP
Business & Economy

Saudi Arabia loosens restrictions on foreign investors

12 January 2026

Scrapping foreign ownership caps and qualifying criteria will bring in more capital, with markets reacting positively to the latest reforms that build towards a more open country

Sharif Mohammad
Andrei Cojocaru
Politics

Trump’s war on CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood

18 December 2025

The US designates the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan as "terrorist" groups, citing alleged support for "activities against Israeli interests in the Middle East" as the reason

Abdullah F. Alrebh

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