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A person holds a piece of raw ore at the Al-Amar gold mine in Al-Quwayiyah, 195 kilometres southwest of the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on 28 May 2008.
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Business & Economy

How Australia fits into Saudi Arabia’s mining ambitions

Alice Gower 05 October 2026
Global oil supply under increasing threat
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Global oil supply under increasing threat

Fares Garabet 04 October 2026
Grace Russell

The promise and danger of AI in the military

Militaries around the world will face competitive pressures to increase their reliance on AI, but to avoid catastrophe, its use must be guided by laws, rules, and norms

Bilal Saab 09 November 2024
Sara Padovan

Trump's win vindicates US firms that never left Russia

In 2022, hundreds of Western firms left, but around 200 American corporates stayed, including big names like Pepsi and Mars, in part because the cost of leaving is high—and getting higher

Nazareth Seferian 07 November 2024
Al Majalla

Mojeb Al Adwani: Art is the product of a collaborative society

One of Saudi Arabia's leading voices in literary criticism and theory thinks the discipline is 'rich and dynamic' in the Arab World—and that influence from the West has its benefits

Jaber Muhammad Madkhali 06 November 2024
Barbara Gibson

Let’s make protecting children from violence a priority

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, Catherine Russell, UNICEF Executive Director, and Najat Maalla M'Jid, UN Special Representative on Violence against Children, write

Al Majalla - London 06 November 2024
A film still from 'It Ends With Us' imdb.com

How cinema is catching up to modern notions of love

In the modern world, love is no longer looked at with rose-coloured glasses. Mirroring this real-world shift, 'Lover' and 'It Ends With Us' opt for darker, more nuanced storylines.

Areej Jamal 04 November 2024
French writer David Diop poses during a photo session in Paris on September 20, 2018. JOEL SAGET / AFP

French novelist David Diop on giving voice to history's voiceless

The award-winning French novelist tells Al Majalla about the inspiration behind his book, 'At Night All Blood Is Black,' and the challenges of merging fact with fiction

Nesrein El-Bakhshawangy 02 November 2024
Israel is the only country ever to be created by the UN yet also the country that has most violated the UN's resolutions Nash Weerasekera

Israel ramps up its 'war' on the United Nations

Israel's UNRWA ban further cements its disregard for the world governing body and its resolutions. Like apartheid South Africa, Israel should be suspended from the General Assembly.

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 29 October 2024
Al Majalla

Nobel laureates crack the code of the global wealth gap

Three economists were awarded the Nobel Prize for their work explaining how colonialism impacted the development of countries and why some thrived and others fell into poverty

Alaa Emara 27 October 2024

Left: A 1948 photograph of French writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. Right:  Writer Han Kang gives a speech in Gwangju. AFP

Han Kang’s noble Nobel stance vs Sartre's grandstanding

Unlike Sartre, the acclaimed Korean author didn't claim any moral high ground. Instead, she conveyed her respect for the world's wounds, qualities reflected in her literature.

Abdulsalam Bin Abdulali 26 October 2024
Russia's President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a festive reception of the BRICS summit in Kazan on October 23, 2024. AFP

BRICS Summit: A diplomatic coup for Putin but light on detail

The number and seniority of the participants that showed up in Kazan helped Putin show that the West's attempts to portray Russia as a pariah have largely failed

Omer Onhon 26 October 2024
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Documents & Memoirs

Exclusive interview with the man who caught Eli Cohen

30, Sep 2026

Ibrahim Hamidi spent years following the story of Mossad's 'spy in Damascus ', but some secrets remained untold. He then learned that the man who could answer them was still alive

Ibrahim Hamidi
A supporters of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a Brazilian flag after a closing campaign rally, one day before the general election, in Sao Paulo, on 3 October, 2026. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
Politics

Who will be Brazil’s next president?

04, Oct 2026

Neither Lula nor Bolsonaro won an outright majority, so the two men will face off on 25 October in an election that could serve as a bellwether of Donald Trump's influence in Latin America

The Economist
Opinion

Russia boosts its defence budget with an eye on Europe

02, Oct 2026

Putin seems to have concluded that to secure a decisive victory in Ukraine, he needs to go after the countries in Europe that are supporting Kyiv

Con Coughlin
A digital billboard displays fuel prices at a petrol station in Berlin on 2 October 2026. John MACDOUGALL / AFP
Business & Economy

G7 agrees to release 100 million barrels of reserve diesel

03, Oct 2026

Analysts believe that Trump is hoping to lower domestic fuel prices before the November midterm elections, which could see Democrats win a majority of seats in Congress

Alexandra Sharp
A US Navy sailor directs a Eurocopter AS-332 Super Puma helicopter on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which is supporting US military operations in the war with Iran on 16 August 2026. US. Navy/REUTERS
Politics

US troops leave Iraq, but double down in the region

30, Sep 2026

Why 30 September should be understood less as a US exit from the Middle East than as the end of a particular model of American intervention

Caroline Rose

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