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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.
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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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Remembering Norwegian poet Gunvor Höfmo

Weighed down by tragedy and mental health issues, she is known for being one of the most unique Scandinavian voices of the 20th century. Al Majalla looks back at her life 30 years after her passing.

Antoine Jockey 13 October 2025
Al-Ma'arri in his residence as depicted in a 1965 book Wikipedia Commons

Al-Ma’arri’s satirical poetry reimagined for today's readers

Recent books from Yemen, Egypt, and Syria take a new look at the 10th-century philosopher's famed letter 'The Epistle of Forgiveness', which is said to have inspired Dante's 'Divine Comedy'

Ali Almuqri 03 September 2025
Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Taha

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha: Pulitzer Prize is a recognition of our story

The US-based writer does not hold back in what he pens for American readers, nor is he censored. There is just one word that he is forbidden from using.

Houssam Marouf 26 May 2025
Spanish actor Lluís Marco

Taha in Barcelona: Spain learns of the life of a Palestinian poet

Taha Muhammad Ali felt the lifelong pain of displacement after Israeli forces took control of his beloved village in 1948. A pared-back one-man show of his life leaves the audience thinking of Gaza.

Samer Abou Hawwach 27 April 2025
Moroccan poet Mubarak Wassat

Mubarak Ouassat on the width of poetry and where in his work you can find him

Speaking to Al Majalla, the Moroccan artist explains why he is captivated by surrealism and how a coverless book and some magazines helped start his journey as a writer.

Hussein bin Hamza 21 July 2024
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A picture of Farid al-Madhan, known as "Caesar," wearing a blue robe in the US Congress.
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Politics

Syria's new post-sanctions test

22 December 2025

Damascus finally gets breathing room after the US repealed its draconian Caesar sanctions, but it can't exhale just yet. Al Majalla explains why.

Haid Haid
Opinion

Israeli gas and the crafting of a 'new Middle East'

22 December 2025

The US is poised to use Israeli gas as a lever to keep Iran on the backfoot following its regional setback, and it could even use it to undercut Russia's economy

Ibrahim Hamidi
Women and children at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to el-Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan, in January 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed Zakaria
Politics

After el-Fasher: the trajectory of war in Sudan

16 November 2025

Washington seems to have changed its tone after the RSF committed atrocities in October, putting increasing pressure on the foreign backers of a paramilitary that now controls Darfur. What next?

Amgad Fareid Eltayeb
Despite a new president, a new prime minister, a new government, and a new central bank governor, what has actually changed after Lebanon's economic collapse? Lina Jaradat
Business & Economy

A state in crisis: Lebanon’s struggle to restore financial stability 

20 December 2025

Following the appointment of a new president, Lebanon has struggled to come to terms with the deep-rooted challenges of its financial collapse

Toufic Chanbour
Culture & Social Affairs

This year in film: landmark moments across platforms

22 December 2025

Al Majalla looks back at a memorable and haunting year in film, with Kaouther Ben Hania's The Voice of Hind Rajab one of 2025's most powerful works

Wael Said

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