The Moroccan scholar has just won another award for his latest book. He spoke to Al Majalla about plots, characters, and the rhetoric of narrative.

In March there was talk of armed Kurdish fighters opening a second front in Iran's north-west, but it never happened—for several very good reasons.

Abbas Khider's novel The Memory Forger exposes the inherited structures of repression left behind by dictatorial regimes, and the hollow Western claims about human fraternity and equality.

Donald Trump and Ahmed al-Sharaa have formed a good relationship which has helped Syria immensely, but Trump's term ends in 2028, so institutional relations are now a priority.

A move towards reconstruction and governance in areas not controlled by Hamas was not the plan but is arguably better than nothing. At least it gives Gazans some hope.

Rising prices, dollar pressures, and Red Sea disruption are making Eid al-Adha increasingly unaffordable, exposing Egypt's dependence on imports and deepening concerns over food security

Jordanian writer tells Al Majalla how he condenses language but not semantics, and where he takes his inspiration from.

Through extravagant processions led by palace women, the Mamluk state projected a message of power and prestige at home and abroad, turning the Hajj obligation into a soft-power tool

Algeria is one of Africa's largest producers of hydrocarbons, and its proximity to customers in Europe makes it of growing interest as importers fret over a prolonged supply crisis from countries