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Lina Jaradat

Fake economic news hits states where it hurts

The spread of online rumours is thought to cost tens of billions of dollars a year, with some countries more susceptible than others

Marcelle Nasr 14 October 2025
Al Majalla

How Saudi Arabia harnessed its oil boom to foster development

The first in a two-part series explains how the country capitalised on its black gold decades ago to expand its economy horizontally, a stunning success that paved the way for Vision 2030

Hussein al-Sharaa 14 August 2025
A currency exchange agent counts Iraqi Dinars at his company in Iraq's southern city of Basra, on December 12, 2023. Hussein Faleh / AFP

To tackle the future, the Iraqi Development Fund needs to break with the past

In an interview with Al Majalla, the fund's director says he is working to increase private sector investment while trying to lay the groundwork for a more educated population

Shelly Kittleson 25 November 2024
The high-speed Buraq train, at Tangier railway station. Shutterstock

Bidders eye Moroccan rail as transformative $37bn project sets off

Companies from France, Spain, Britain, China, South Korea are vying for a share of the work as the Kingdom bets big on trains to drive its economic development ambitions on a continental scale

Mohamed Sharki 18 September 2024
Algeria is the third largest supplier of natural gas to Europe, with a market share of about 8% AFP

Pretence and illusion: Arab countries and privatisation

An analysis of several Arab states' past efforts to privatise certain industries and the obstacles that they encountered.

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 01 January 2024
Robust national capacities, the strength of institutions, and education and skills development should be at the top of the agenda in 2024 as the Kingdom pushes forward with Vision 2030 Axel Rangel Garcia

Charting Saudi Arabia’s path through sustainable economic transformation

Robust national capacities, the strength of institutions, and education and skills development should be at the top of the agenda in 2024 as the Kingdom pushes forward with Vision 2030

Hazar Caracalla 07 November 2023
Volunteers with the Emergency Food Bank and members of the California National Guard deliver food to needy families and individuals who are reeling from the economic impact due to the pandemic in Stockton on Dec. 10, 2020. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Individualism Makes Us Altruistic and Happy

Individualism is good, collectivism is bad. That’s what I first concluded as a teenager after reading Friedrich Hayek’s seminal treatise, “The Road to Serfdom.” Every life experience since then has…

Andreas Kluth 11 July 2021
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Trump's Board of Peace gives hints of his vision for a new world order

24 January 2026

Critics worry the BOP is a bid to dismantle the post-1945 international order and replace it with structures under the US president's direct control, with scope stretching well beyond Gaza

Tarek Rashed
Opinion

The battle for the state is reshaping regional alliances

18 January 2026

From Yemen and Syria to Sudan and Libya, there is a concerted effort to reassert state authority and thwart moves toward the proliferation of quasi-states and fragmentation

Ibrahim Hamidi
Al Majalla
Politics

'Gaza has broken every record of modern warfare'

23 January 2026

Former Médecins Sans Frontières president Rony Brauman explains to Al Majalla how Israel's war on Gaza has produced unprecedented suffering and exposed the collapse of international law

Elie Kossaifi
Al Majalla
Culture & Social Affairs

Al Majalla's Film Watch: the best of Youssef Chahine

23 January 2026

On the centenary of his birth, Al Majalla highlights some of the many standout films of the legendary Egyptian director's illustrious career

Areej Jamal
A man walks past a mural depicting SDF supporters raising a flag showing the face of Abdullah Öcalan, the founding leader of the PKK, in Syria's northeastern city of Qamishli on December 16, 2024. Delil Souleiman/AFP
Politics

The SDF: from chosen US security partner to liability

21 January 2026

How a regional and international climate increasingly aligned with Damascus is placing pressure on the Syrian Democratic Forces to prioritise Syrian unity

Subhi Franjieh

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