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British author Andrew Millar holds his novel "The Land in Winter" during a photoshoot for the 2025 Booker Prize shortlist. CHRIS J RATCLIFFE / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Andrew Millar on why he falls back on silence

Nesrein El-Bakhshawangy 12 November 2025
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
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
Chadian soldiers march during Flintlock 2014, a US-led training mission for African militaries, in Diffa, Niger, on March 3, 2014. Joe Penney / Reuters

African dawn: powers are scrambling for influence and resources

Once a colonialist's playground, the world's second largest continent has a newfound confidence in its worth. This could well be Africa's century. Who it chooses to partner will be important.

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 22 July 2024
Cryptocurrency investors still trust it as a leading way to decentralise finance Axel Rangel Garcia

Cryptocurrencies hit by volatility but investors keep the faith

Investors in the digital alternative to traditional money continue to trust Bitcoin and its rivals a leading way to decentralise finance

Abdel-Rahman Ayas 22 July 2024
Loretta Napoleoni's book looks at how the internet has fuelled the rise of tech titans who have amassed great wealth and power, often at the expense of workers' rights Shutterstock

A few tech titans controlling our digital world? Double-click for disaster

A new book on 'technocapitalism' by Loretta Napoleoni argues that with such a concentration of online power, worries are more than science fiction.

Osama Esber 19 July 2024
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How India’s deal to run Iran’s Chabahar port may help the Middle East navigate to a new future

The jewel in the crown of the International North-South Transport Corridor which, links Russia with the Middle East, shows new forms of co-operation bringing trade breakthroughs. It may lead to more.

Nazareth Seferian 17 July 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
Sara Padovan
Politics

Is support for Israel becoming toxic at the ballot box? 

11 November 2025

As Americans rethink the moral—and strategic—calculus of US support for Israel, politicians are scrambling to keep pace

Alfred J. Naddaff
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
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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