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People visit the Global Logistics Forum in Riyadh on October 13, 2024. Fayez Nureldine / AFP
Business & Economy

Can non-oil sectors shape the future of Gulf economies?

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 04, May 2025
Al Majalla's Book Watch
Culture & Social Affairs

Al Majalla's Book Watch

Khodr Al Agha 29, Apr 2025
Agencies

Saudi Vision 2030 is achieving its goals despite challenges

Ambitious targets are largely being met, with several areas exceeding expectations, but with foreign direct investment still less-than-hoped, there is still work to be done.

Khaled Kassar 28, Apr 2025
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As PIF juggles investment priorities, Vision 2030 comes first

Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is investing heavily in the US, but its domestic spending is set to reach $70bn in the next five years, which means it will have to carefully weigh its priorities

Sharif Mohammad 20, Apr 2025
Gulf markets index declines, Kuwait City, April 7, 2025 AFP

Gulf states won't pull US sovereign wealth funds amid market volatility

Nonetheless, it is crucial to think strategically about how to improve SWF performance, especially as oil revenues are expected to decline

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 18, Apr 2025
The Saudi Film Festival saudi film festival

Saudi Film Festival 2025 focuses on the cinema of identity

Featuring a production market, workshops, discussions, and international collaborations, this year's festival shows that the event has evolved into a space that shapes films before they are made.

Noor Hisham Alsaif 17, Apr 2025
Al Majalla

Al Majalla's Book Watch

A tour of the latest releases from Arabic publishing houses on topics covering fiction, philosophy, science, history, and politics.

Khodr Al Agha 15, Apr 2025

Women as symbols of popular culture on Arab stamps

Al Majalla speaks to a researcher who has spent years studying the stamps of the Arab world, learning how they act as a medium through which nations shape and project their identity.

Rosette Fadel 07, Apr 2025
Al Majalla

Arab first-time novelists on their debut works

Breaking into a literary sphere dominated by established names is difficult. Al Majalla speaks to several new authors from the Arab world about their experiences.

Joudy El-Asmar 01, Apr 2025
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with Mohammed Abdul-Salam spokesman for Yemen's Houthis on August 13, 2019 in Tehran. AFP

Iran and the Houthis: complex ties and a history of deception

Tehran has long sponsored the Houthis in Yemen, which is the last member of Iran's 'axis of resistance' still standing up to Israel. Neither fully trust each other and never have.

Anwar Al-Ansi 31, Mar 2025
A boy sips a cup of tea during a break from work in an aluminium cookware manufacturing factory in Al-Bab, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, on June 2, 2024. Aaref WATAD / AFP

Poverty in the Arab world is about more than just income

Being poor in countries like Somalia, Mauritania, Syria, and Yemen can also mean a lack of healthcare, education, housing, drinking water, or electricity.

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 25, Mar 2025
Diana Estefanía Rubio

Aramco outperforms global oil and gas giants in 2024

Despite Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil giant Aramco reporting a 12% decrease of its net profits in 2024 due to lower energy prices, the company outperformed leading global oil and gas companies,…

Al Majalla - London 11, Mar 2025
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Politics

US-Houthi ceasefire fuels Israeli fears of an Iran deal

09 May 2025

The Yemeni militant group is proving to be a stubborn adversary, and Trump doesn't want anything to detract from his visit to the Gulf next week, where he plans to make a 'big' announcement

Michael Horowitz
Sara Padovan
Business & Economy

A new economic order is emerging, and tariffs play no part in it

07 May 2025

China has been quietly working to rewrite the rules of global trade and finds itself in a strong position in the current trade war launched by Washington. A look around the world shows why.

Shirley Ze Yu
Ewan White
Politics

Why Libya isn't the right model for Iran’s nuclear climbdown

08 May 2025

Israel wants the total dismantlement and scrapping of all Iranian nuclear facilities, just like in Libya two decades ago. That is unrealistic for several reasons.

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy
Rahaf Saad, a Palestinian girl who lost her legs in an Israeli air strike. REUTERS
Culture & Social Affairs

Missing limbs and broken dreams: Gaza's generation of child amputees

03 May 2025

Israel's war on Gaza has created the "largest cohort of child amputees in modern history". On the ground, Al Majalla speaks to affected families.

Houssam Marouf
Opinion

Trump's 'unforced errors' could accelerate America's decline

06 May 2025

If history is any judge, Trump's tariffs and damaging actions towards US allies could speed up the emergence of a multipolar world, much like George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq

Christopher Phillips

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