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3D printing makes inroads in orthopaedic surgery Sara Padovan
Science & Technology

3D printing makes inroads in orthopaedic surgery

Khaled Yousri 20 September 2025
New book reveals Saudi explorer's impressions of Australia and South America
Culture & Social Affairs

New book reveals Saudi explorer's impressions of Australia and South America

Abdul Rahman Mazhar Halloush 19 September 2025
Nash Weerasekera

America is divided... who will rule over it?

The presidential campaign suddenly looks different. How would a second Trump White House or a first Harris administration approach the Middle East?

Al Majalla - London 04 August 2024
Nash Weerasekera

How a President Harris might approach the Middle East

Kamala Harris is new to the presidential election campaign and largely an unknown quantity on foreign policy. Yet there are clues as to how she may approach the region if she wins the White House

Amal Mudallali 04 August 2024
The smartphone is never left behind. It comes with us everywhere we go. It is our favourite toy and our miniature world. Shutterstock

How our smartphones change the way we see ourselves

A personal reflection on how technology has rewired our interactions, reshaping the world before our very eyes.

Abdulsalam Bin Abdulali 31 July 2024

Eye-watering: playing host to the Games is not for shallow wallets

The cost of hosting the Olympics has varied massively in recent years, from Sochi’s $59.7bn in Russia to Salt Lake City’s $2.9bn in the United States. Yet while the cost can be huge, the economic…

Al Majalla - London 30 July 2024
Venezuela's combative President Nicolas Maduro faces the people's votes on Sunday. Eduardo Ramon

Maduro fights for Chávez legacy in Venezuela’s election

After a devastating economic collapse, transformational socialist champion's heir is running again at a vital moment for the country and after a steady decline in previous votes

Paul Achkar 28 July 2024
Indiaís Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) flashes victory sign as he arrives at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters to celebrate the partyís win in country's general election, in New Delhi on June 4, 2024 AFP

India's electoral politics and religious hatred

A series of violent and even fatal attacks on Muslims hit BJP-controlled areas amid concern the party is doubling down on its divisive Hindu nationalism after the setback in the national vote in June

Shakir Husain 28 July 2024
Djibouti, which sits in a strategic location opposite Yemen, is home to military naval bases from various countries, including the US and China. Eduardo Ramon

Djibouti: small coastal state crammed with Red Sea naval bases

Eight countries from four continents have a military presence in this tiny country in the Horn of Africa. Those with naval bases here include nuclear-armed rivals with troops just kilometres apart.

Con Coughlin 27 July 2024
Arabic writers are finally discovering a genre that has been well-loved for centuries

How Arab writers are finally embracing the crime fiction genre

Once sniffed at as suitable only for children's theatre, authors in the Arab world are now discovering how a murder can help set the scene. Al Majalla looks at four great recent examples.

Ibrahim Adel 26 July 2024
The early five BRICS states - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - are expanding the group to include Egypt, Iran, the UAE, Ethiopia, and possibly Saudi Arabia. Nash Weerasekera

BRICS group expands in the Middle East with the dollar in its sights

An important grouping has grown considerably, recently adding states like Egypt, the UAE, and Iran, while Saudi Arabia has been invited. The group's true nature will determine its course.

Nazareth Seferian 25 July 2024
The French delegation attends the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Mexico City on 12 October 1968. Days earlier, hundreds of Mexican students had been shot and killed. EPU/AFP

Let the Games begin: Olympics tries to outrun its political shadow

For over a century, states' disagreements in other areas have spilled over into the world's highest profile sports arena, with boycotts and counter-boycotts. Al Majalla reviews a chequered history.

Sami Moubayed 25 July 2024
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Displaced Palestinians flee northern Gaza on September 18, 2025, due to an Israeli military operation, moving with their belongings to the south after Israeli forces ordered residents of Gaza City to evacuate. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Politics

Palestinians flee Gaza City amid terrifying Israeli invasion

17 September 2025

Israeli ministers boast that "Gaza is burning" after the US gives the green light to empty Gaza city of its residents. Meanwhile, the massacres and maiming continue.

Salem Al Rayyes
The US Supreme Court AFP
Business & Economy

Trump tariffs await their date with destiny

18 September 2025

The US president's use of executive power to drive his economic agenda will face the ultimate test at a US Supreme Court hearing set for 5 November

Toufic Chanbour
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) walks among members of the Israeli army at Mount Hermon in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights of Syria, on December 17, 2024. AFP
Politics

Netanyahu’s ‘peace through force’ doctrine hurts Syria talks

16 September 2025

Syria's foreign minister met Israeli officials in London on 17 September, sparking speculation that a deal is in the offing. But even if one is reached, it risks being more symbolic than substantive.

Haid Haid
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Culture & Social Affairs

Lebanese artist Maral Dir Bogosian on capturing Beirut's essence

17 September 2025

Her latest exhibition, 'Roofs of the City', shows how she continues to absorb Beirut's abundant imagery as if encountering it for the first time

Mimoza Al-Arrawi
Al Majalla
Politics

Trump's visit tests 'special' US-UK relationship

16 September 2025

Despite Trump's often hostile engagement with traditional US allies, Starmer has trodden a careful path to keep him on side. But is this sustainable?

Christopher Phillips

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