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Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at the 45th meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Kuwait City on December 1, 2024.
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Kuwait reforms bear fruit after decades of political deadlock

Al Majalla outlines the country's most significant institutional and political transformations and their implications for the future

Khalaf Al-Duwai 17 August 2025
The Kuwait City skyline
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Kuwait’s administrative reboot: quiet reforms, real results

By focusing on the nuts and bolts of administration, such as licensing, regulation and digital access, it is laying the foundations for a more dynamic and inclusive economy

Neil Quilliam 12 August 2025
Kuwaiti military helicopters perform during an airshow to mark the country's 63rd Independence Day celebrations in Kuwait City on February 26, 2024. YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP

At 64, Kuwait still faces many of the same challenges

As Kuwait marks its National Day, it continues to grapple with the lingering effects of past crises while confronting new economic, political, and security challenges

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 25 February 2025
Outrage over interest charges and astronomical land prices have reverberated around Kuwait Shutterstock

Taming Kuwait’s personal real estate debt

Politically motivated cries of outrage over interest charges have reverberated around the country, but official data reveal a sober picture in a country that needs lending to diversify its economy.

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 29 July 2024
Lina Jaradat

Depleting funds highlight Kuwait's oil dependency dilemma

Streamlining the public sector, enhancing the role of the private sector, and reviewing financial policies away from sovereign funds are just some of the reforms needed. Time is running out.

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 08 July 2024
A handout picture provided by Energy giant Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil and gas company, shows its rigs in HSBH field north of Dhahran in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia on March 20, 2018. AFP

National oil companies: Why some thrive and others struggle

Al Majalla looks at the different experiences of oil companies in the Arab world and explains why some succeeded and others struggled

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 11 February 2024
The late Emir during his attendance at the twentieth session of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference in Kuwait City in 2014 AFP

Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, 86, dies: The 'Prince of Humility and Amnesty'

A 40-day official mourning period was declared and the Crown Prince, Sheikh Meshal, ascended to the position of the Emir of Kuwait

Al Majalla - London 16 December 2023
Kuwait Towers, Kuwait. Shutterstock

Why privatisation is vital for the Arab world

Economic reform is key to the future of a region which needs to diversify away from dependency on oil, or a reliance on international funding. There has been both resistance and progress so far.

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 30 October 2023
Kuwait needs to shrink its public sector and use privatisation to cut its dependence on oil revenue. Reform will only become more difficult as the world moves to alternative energy. Shutterstock

After brief surplus, Kuwait's national budget back in the negative

Kuwait needs to shrink its public sector and use privatisation to cut its dependence on oil revenue. Reform will only become more difficult as the world moves to alternative energy.

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 07 September 2023
Al Majalla takes a look at Iraqi Premier Abd al-Karim Qasim's  attempt to invade Kuwait in 1961 and explains why Saddam felt that he could succeed where Qasim failed. AFP_Getty_Majalla

29 years before Saddam invaded Kuwait, another Iraqi leader tried but failed

Al Majalla takes a look at Iraqi Premier Abd al-Karim Qasim's attempt to invade Kuwait in 1961 and explains why Saddam felt that he could succeed where Qasim failed

Sami Moubayed 20 August 2023
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US President Donald Trump meets Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate for an end to the war in Ukraine in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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Putin rides high after Alaska

18 August 2025

Seven instances that showed the Russian leader had the upper hand during his meeting with Trump

Robert Ford
David Corenswet in 'Superman'
Culture & Social Affairs

The new 'Superman' is not as pro-Palestine as some think

20 August 2025

The depiction of a land-grabbing colonialist power turning on its weaker neighbour feels aimed at Israel, its advocates say. Yet supporters of Palestine should be up in arms, too.

Samer Abou Hawwach
US Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack, also special envoy to Syria, fields questions from journalists after meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon, on August 18, 2025. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
Politics

Lebanon at a crossroads over Hezbollah arms

18 August 2025

US envoy to Syria Tom Barrack used his latest visit to Beirut to deliver what was, in effect, an ultimatum to the Lebanese government, though he took care not to present it as such

Michael Harari
A Saudi Aramco rig in the HSBH field north of Dhahran in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia. AFP
Business & Economy

The Arab Gulf’s gas moment

21 August 2025

The Arab Gulf is stepping into a pivotal role in global energy markets—not just as a swing oil supplier, but as a gas powerhouse

Neil Quilliam
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer makes an address following an emergency cabinet meeting on Gaza at 10 Downing Street in London on July 29, 2025. Toby Melville / AFP
Politics

Performative politics: Palestine recognition pledges ring hollow

18 August 2025

The moves by France, the UK and other Western states appear to be more about appeasing domestic critics with symbolic gestures rather than a genuine attempt to change Israel's behaviour

Christopher Phillips

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