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Katherine Mansfield poetry collection reclaims the moment

The New Zealander, who died young over 100 years ago, produced a canon of work that gains more admirers every year. A new book shows what she did with poetry - and why

Antoine Jockey 27 September 2026
Lina Jaradat

Farasan, the literature of the sea, and the poetics of place

In these pristine Saudi islands, a generation of writers has drawn on life by the sea to produce a body of work shaped by memory, identity, and rapid change

Jaber Muhammad Madkhali 16 April 2026

Medusa as our ambivalent self: Racha Mounaged’s new poetics

In her debut work, 'The Metamorphoses of Medusa', Belgian-Lebanese poet Racha Mounaged reworks Greek myth through marine science, translation, and political reflection

Alfred J. Naddaff 19 February 2026
Molière AFP-Reuters

The strange loop of artificial creation

A play created by AI, as if written by Molière, was recently presented in Paris, bringing with it dire consequences

Emanuele Bottazzi Grifoni 05 February 2026
Norwegian author Jon Fosse receives the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature during the award ceremony at the concert hall in Stockholm on 10 December 2023. Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AF

Nobel winner Jon Fosse: my language is my homeland

The Norwegian novelist, playwright, and poet talks to Al Majalla about silence, literature, and everything in between

Jaber Muhammad Madkhali 23 January 2026
Haiku poet Banya Natsuishi Hiroyuki Izutsu

Banya Natsuishi: a haiku poet detached from all things

This Japanese art form reveals 'a bitter awareness of the frailty of human existence and the impermanence of nature,' one of its most perceptive proponents tells Al Majalla.

Osama Esber 10 December 2025
Spanish poet Miriam Reyes Wikimedia Commons

Spanish poet Miriam Reyes on escaping the prison of the page

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 06 December 2025
Italian writer and director Pier Paolo Pasolini at his home in Rome, on 23 April 1971.
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Pasolini finds a new voice in French

To commemorate 50 years since the celebrated Italian poet was murdered, France has, for the first time, published a translation of his final prose collection

Antoine Jockey 06 November 2025
Photos of American writer Edgar Allan Poe and his family at his home museum in Baltimore.
 SAUL LOEB / AFP

The Poe Museum: honouring a legacy of literary greatness

The Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, preserves the memory of Edgar Allan Poe—a writer whose life was as haunted and complex as his fiction

Osama Esber 20 October 2025
Issa Makhlouf Facebook

Issa Makhlouf on the cultural atrophy of the Arab world

Al Majalla interviews the Lebanese writer about his new award-winning novel on his life in Paris and how living in the French capital shaped his intellectual formation

Ashraf al-Hassani 18 October 2025
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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
Eduardo Ramón
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
Moroccan Foreign Minister Bourita & Israeli Foreign Minister Sa'ar agreed to advance their
relationship on security, trade, and regional integration on 16 September 2026. @USAmbUN/X
Politics

Morocco expands ties with Israel: why now?

28, Sep 2026

After months of behind‑the‑scenes talks, Rabat and Tel Aviv are deepening ties under a new phase of the existing Abraham Accords, with Western Sahara being dangled as an incentive

Mohamed Sharki
US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping view portraits of former US presidents at the White House, Washington, DC, on 24 September 2026. Reuters
Politics

US-China summit: did Xi get what he wanted?

29, Sep 2026

Why the Chinese president's visit to Washington could be considered a success, despite no big movement on trade, Taiwan, and technology

Charbel Barakat
Soldiers from the Ethiopian National Defence Force chant slogans after completing their training at an officers' training ground 70 kilometres northeast of the city of Gondar, Ethiopia, on 14 September 2021. AFP
Politics

Turmoil in Tigray: the view from Ethiopia's neighbours

30, Sep 2026

While many would like to see Addis Ababa distracted, they also worry about a refugee spillover should a civil war break out. It might be a case of 'be careful what you wish for'

Sergey Eledinov

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