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Renewables need $2.3tn a year to stay on track
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Renewables need $2.3tn a year to stay on track

Al Majalla - London 11 November 2025
US President Donald Trump (L) and Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim (R) hold up signed documents on a trade deal during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 47th ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur on 26 October 2025. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP
Business & Economy

Will Trump’s critical minerals blitz pay off?

Christina Lu 11 November 2025
Diana Estefanía Rubio

Global EV sales up 550% in the past four years

While US President-elect Donald Trump may have his doubts about electric vehicles (EV), their sales around the world show no sign of slowing down, with 16.6 million already sold this year, up from…

Al Majalla - London 03 December 2024
Writer and researcher Lina Meruane David Levenson - Getty Images

Lina Meruane on Palestinian erasure and genocide in real time

The acclaimed writer tells Al Majalla that Israel has used October 7 as a pretext to seize Palestinian land and erase their culture and history

Nesrein El-Bakhshawangy 02 December 2024
US President-elect Donald Trump, while attending the “America First” Institute of Politics gala in Florida, November 14, 2024. Reuters

The biggest losers from Trumponomics

America's president-elect wants to reshape trade, capital and labour flows

The Economist 01 December 2024
In a conversation with Al Majalla, the chatbot says it's not truly aware of its own existence even though it can talk about it as if it were real. Shutterstock

A philosophical conversation with a very self-aware ChatGPT

Al Majalla asks the popular chatbot who it is and how it thinks and suggests a more personable name for it. The discussion touches on identity and philosophy and shows the tech's scope.

Abdel Salam Ben Abdelali 28 November 2024
Participating world leaders and delegates pose for a family photo during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku on November 12, 2024. Alexander NEMENOV / AFP

Did COP29 deliver real climate solutions?

The world needed to agree on how much rich nations would pay poorer nations for climate financing. After a walkout in Baku, delegates agreed on a figure that was cheered by some and derided by others.

Nazareth Seferian 27 November 2024
Michelle Thompson/Majalla

Aleksandr Dugin: Russia has lost the West but has rediscovered the world

In an exclusive interview with Al Majalla, the Russian political philosopher explains his country's pivot to the Global South and why nothing will change Moscow's edge on the Ukrainian battlefield

Ahmed Maher 26 November 2024
G20 Leaders meet in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 18, 2024. Countries like Turkey, Argentina and India have welcomed Trump's win. Mauro PIMENTEL / AFP

Why emerging powers are welcoming Trump’s victory

Traditional powers are worried about Trump 2.0, but much of the world has had the opposite reaction

Christopher S. Chivvis and Beatrix Geaghan-Breiner 25 November 2024
Pep Boatella

Emojis: Tiny symbols with big meaning in the digital age

A universal expressive tool, the humble emoji transcends language and cultural barriers, yet unbeknownst to many, the introduction of new emojis is strictly policed and far from straightforward

Marco Mossad 25 November 2024
Barry Falls

Riyadh Summit could yet shape the dynamics of a multipolar world

To realise its immense potential as a cohesive pole in this new global order, the Islamic world needs to decide on the best way forward. Inspiration can be found in the Abbasid model

Aleksandr Dugin 21 November 2024
A woman uses an Lime-S electric scooter of the US company Lime in Paris on March 3, 2019 in Paris. AFP / KENZO TRIBOUILLARD

E-scooters fight for their future as more cities mull bans

Advocates say they help combat climate change but safety concerns from residents have made them unpopular with some councils. What next for micromobility?

Nazareth Seferian 19 November 2024
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As Sharaa steps into the White House, Syria steps into the US orbit

09 November 2025

In what could be a historic turning point in US-Syria relations, the new government in Damascus will likely join the international coalition against the Islamic State (IS)

Subhi Franjieh
Axel Rangel Garcia
Politics

Barbara Leaf on being the first US official to meet Ahmed Sharaa

10 November 2025

On Monday, the Syrian president shook hands with Trump at the White House. Speaking to Al Majalla, a former State Department official explains why this is a moment she could have never imagined.

Ibrahim Hamidi
AFP-Reuters-Eduardo Ramon
Politics

Zohran Mamdani becomes first Muslim mayor of New York

04 November 2025

The 34-year-old socialist's win is a seismic development, proving that tax rises for the rich to fund social programmes, and unwavering advocacy for Palestinian rights, are politically viable stances

Tarek Rashed
Details of the remains of Palestinians released by Israel are shown on a screen in order to help family members to identify their relatives, at the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on 18 October 2025. OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP
Politics

Closure denied: the agonising search for Gaza's vanished

05 November 2025

Those who are able to bury their dead are among the lucky. For others, not knowing the fate of their missing loved ones or receiving mutilated corpses impossible to identify adds insult to injury.

Salem Al Rayyes
Ewan White
Politics

How Trump reshaped the world

03 November 2025

Al Majalla examines key developments in the US and across the globe less than a year into Trump's second presidential term

Al Majalla - London

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