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Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at the 45th meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Kuwait City on December 1, 2024.
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Politics

Kuwait reforms bear fruit after decades of political deadlock

Khalaf Al-Duwai 17 August 2025
How Vision 2030 diversified the Saudi economy Al Majalla
Business & Economy

How Vision 2030 diversified the Saudi economy

Hussein al-Sharaa 16 August 2025
Outrage over interest charges and astronomical land prices have reverberated around Kuwait Shutterstock

Taming Kuwait’s personal real estate debt

Politically motivated cries of outrage over interest charges have reverberated around the country, but official data reveal a sober picture in a country that needs lending to diversify its economy.

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 29 July 2024
Looking out from inside the entrance of the Umm Jirsan lava tube cave. Sheila Russel/Saudi Travel Notes

Signs of life: excavations at Umm Jirsan Cave in Saudi Arabia

New scientific paper shows how this mile-long lava tube has provided temporary accommodation for herders and migrants for up to 10,000 years.

Mohammed Mansour 22 July 2024
Saudi writer and poet Dr Fawziyya Abu Khalid

Fawziyya Abu Khalid on navigating through life using poetry

The Saudi pioneer of the prose poem reveals why her recent collections were linked by the theme of water and how the artform means she has lived many lives.

Abeer Younis 18 July 2024
Saudi Aramco engineers walk in front of a gas turbine generator at the Khurais oil field during a tour for journalists in 2021. AP

Aramco growth helps Saudi Arabia realise its 2030 vision

Promising new discoveries, big new deals on gas, and a successful second public share offering is shaping one of the world's biggest companies to beat its own high expectations.

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 12 July 2024
Lina Jaradat

Depleting funds highlight Kuwait's oil dependency dilemma

Streamlining the public sector, enhancing the role of the private sector, and reviewing financial policies away from sovereign funds are just some of the reforms needed. Time is running out.

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 08 July 2024
Emirati poet Abdulaziz Jasim

Abdulaziz Jassim on the symbiotic relationship between poetry and prose

In an interview with Al Majalla, the acclaimed Emirati poet talks about the universality of poetry and tells aspiring poets to be their unique selves

Hoda Salim Al-Muhithawi 15 June 2024
A series of seemingly endless crises gripping most Arab countries outside the Gulf have widened an already considerable economic gap between the two regions. Mona Eing

Worlds apart: A tale of two Mideast economies 

Gulf countries' success in achieving sustainable economic development will benefit most countries in the region

Alaa Shahine Salha 10 June 2024
Red Bull's Dutch driver Max Verstappen raises his 1st-place trophy on the podium after the 2022 Saudi Arabia Formula One Grand Prix at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit on March 27, 2022. AP

Why Saudi Arabia is investing in sports

Investing in sports is not only part of Saudi Arabia's overall diversification strategy, but it also helps boost related sectors like hospitality and tourism

Lina Khatib 28 May 2024
President of the Arab World Institute, Jack Lang, attends a Gaza ceasefire demonstration, in the courtyard of the Arab World Institute in Paris on January 27, 2024. AFP

Jack Lang praises Saudi Arabia and its ‘magnifique’ reforms

Recently re-appointed president of the Institut du Monde Arabe, Jack Lang speaks to Al Majalla on his attachment to the Middle East, regional changes, and teaching Arabic in France.

Ali Almuqri 26 May 2024
Saudi film director Tawfik al-Zaidi

Saudi filmmaker Tawfik al-Zaidi gets candid in Cannes

'Norah' is the first Saudi film to be featured at the Cannes Film Festival. In an interview with Al Majalla, its director discusses the challenges he faced and how he feels about the landmark moment.

Firas Al-Madi 22 May 2024
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US President Donald Trump meets Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate for an end to the war in Ukraine in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Politics

Putin rides high after Alaska

18 August 2025

Seven instances that showed the Russian leader had the upper hand during his meeting with Trump

Robert Ford
Eduardo Ramon
Business & Economy

The rare earths powering industries and fuelling conflicts

18 August 2025

From Africa to the Arctic, certain metals and minerals are so highly sought after for today's strategic industries that countries will go to war over them. What are they? Al Majalla digs deeper.

Abdulfattah Khattab
US Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack, also special envoy to Syria, fields questions from journalists after meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon, on August 18, 2025. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
Politics

 Lebanon at a crossroads over Hezbollah arms

18 August 2025

US envoy to Syria Tom Barrack used his latest visit to Beirut to deliver what was, in effect, an ultimatum to the Lebanese government, though he took care not to present it as such

Michael Harari
Aliaa Aboukhaddour
Culture & Social Affairs

How Gaza’s hakawati use storytelling to cling to memory and life

17 August 2025

Storytelling in a genocide in which there has been no formal education for two years is no luxury. Rather, it is an attempt to revive the imaginations of a generation robbed of their childhood.

Houssam Marouf
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer makes an address following an emergency cabinet meeting on Gaza at 10 Downing Street in London on July 29, 2025. Toby Melville / AFP
Politics

Performative politics: Palestine recognition pledges ring hollow

18 August 2025

The moves by France, the UK and other Western states appear to be more about appeasing domestic critics with symbolic gestures rather than a genuine attempt to change Israel's behaviour

Christopher Phillips

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