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A visitor takes a picture of the painting La Chambre de Van Gogh a Arles, 1888 (Van Gogh's Bedroom in Arles) at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, France. Stephane Mahe/Reuters
Culture & Social Affairs

Three artists whose names became entwined with places

Ismail Ghazaly 12 December 2025
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Moscow on 2 December 2025. Ambassador Sylvie Bermann thinks Donald Trump will not drive a wedge between Moscow and Beijing. AFP
Politics

French diplomat Sylvie Bermann: Trump won’t divide Russia and China

Elie Kossaifi 11 December 2025
A Pakistani woman with tuberculosis holds different antibiotics. Around 1.5 million people in Pakistan suffer from the illness, which is increasingly becoming drug-resistant. TBIJ/BSAC/Khaula Jamil

World leaders commit to action to ensure the future of modern medicine

The goal is to reduce global deaths associated with drug-resistant bacteria by 10% by 2030 and ensure that at least 70% of antibiotics used globally belong to the safer WHO Access group

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus 26 September 2024
African leaders applaud Chinese President Xi Jinping (C) after his speech at the opening ceremony of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People on September 5, 2024. Greg Baker / AFP

FOCAC at 25: How a China-Africa forum is moving beyond trade

The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation brought together over 50 heads of state, including Xi Jinping. Its success shows that there is an alternative to the West's development values

Shirley Ze Yu 22 September 2024
Technological and scientific advances have opened the door to military opportunities and threats beyond our atmosphere. Andy Potts

Stellar competition: Will the next world war be over space?

So crucial are the satellites that connect us (and spy on us) that the world above our heads could be the next major-power conflict zone. With China and India off to the moon, what next for space?

Marco Mossad 21 September 2024
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Are rats actually that bad?

The rodent's reputation, revamped

Bronwen Everill 17 September 2024

Russia-Ukraine escalation threatens global security

Fares Garabet 16 September 2024
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Al Majalla's Book Watch

We review the latest literary releases from Arab publishing houses on subjects covering philosophy, science, history, politics, translation, and others

Khodr Al Agha 15 September 2024
The technology powering our current industrial revolution needs so much energy and water that data centres are now competing with cities, with the environment and net-zero targets losing out Pep Boatella

How AI is draining the world of its energy sources

The technology powering our current industrial revolution needs so much energy and water that data centres are now competing with cities, with the environment and net-zero targets losing out

Khaled Kassar 14 September 2024
Travellers from France wait on their delayed flight on the check-in floor of the Delta Air Lines terminal at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on July 23, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama / GETTY

How Microsoft's security flaws leave America vulnerable

The company is the cornerstone of federal IT, but there are big questions, including in Congress, over its ability to cope with cyberattacks from Russia and China

Marco Mossad 11 September 2024
Diana Estefanía Rubio

Cooling inflation restores confidence and motivates interest rate cuts

After a period of rapid price rises and surging interest rates, most of the world’s major central banks are now sufficiently confident about the trajectory of inflation to start bringing interest…

Al Majalla - London 10 September 2024
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and former Chairs of the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen and Ben Bernanke participate in a panel discussion at the American Economic Association conference on January 4, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. Jessica McGowan/AFP

Should central bankers argue in public?

Division is not always a weakness

The Economist 08 September 2024
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Trump, Sharaa, and the future of Syria

05 December 2025

There was visible warmth when the US and Syrian presidents met in the Oval Office last month, with some even speculating a Trump visit to Damascus. But there is much to do before that happens.

Robert Ford
AFP / Al Majalla
Politics

The GCC moves from ‘safe neutrality’ to ‘indivisible security’

05 December 2025

Following the unprecedented attacks on Qatar, Gulf leaders have pledged to forge a unified defence front, marking a historic shift from cautious neutrality to collective security

Omar Harkous
Jay Torres
Politics

The evolution of Latin America’s drug cartels

04 December 2025

What began as a locally rooted trade in coca leaves and opium evolved into a transnational system of cartels that challenged governments, corrupted institutions, and destabilised countries

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra
AFP / Al Majalla
Politics

Why the US is asking Lebanon for its bomb back

05 December 2025

When Israel killed a Hezbollah military chief in late November, one GBU-39 bomb failed to detonate, leaving Washington worried that its adversaries could reverse engineer it

Michael Horowitz
Spanish poet Miriam Reyes Wikimedia Commons
Culture & Social Affairs

Spanish poet Miriam Reyes on escaping the prison of the page

03 December 2025

With her collection 'Con' having won Spain's 2025 National Poetry Prize, the Galician writer spoke to Al Majalla about the process of creation as she works on her first novel.

Mohammed Al-Bittari

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