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Chloe Aridjis at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Scotland, on 16 August 2019.
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Chloe Aridjis on why fantasy is so important in her writing

Al Majalla interviews the Mexican-British writer whose latest novel, 'The Shadow of the Thing', was longlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize

Nesrein El-Bakhshawangy 20 September 2026
Palestinian-German author Alena Jabarine Tim Oehler

Alena Jabarine on Palestine advocacy in Germany

The Palestinian-German author speaks to Al Majalla about the challenges facing Palestinian voices in Germany and how she engages German readers from within their own cultural and political context

Mohammed Magdy 02 September 2026
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Mathias Ospelt: crime fiction offers refuge in an unjust world

The acclaimed novelist from Liechtenstein tells Al Majalla what drives him as a writer and why Scotland holds a special place in both his heart and literary works

Nesrein El-Bakhshawangy 24 August 2026
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Al Majalla's Book Watch

The Arab world has a vibrant and rich literary scene. Al Majalla picks out some choice titles in our fortnightly round-up of the latest Arabic books

Khodr Al Agha 18 August 2026
Deena So'Oteh

Timothy Zurabishvili dives into the darkness of man

'Plomb' is a dark, unsettling debut novel by the French writer that explains violence in language, body and consciousness

Antoine Jockey 10 August 2026
The Lebanese novelist Jabbour Douaihy lived between two worlds and two languages Lina Jaradat

Jabbour Douaihy and the art of living between two shores

Five years after his death, Douaihy's novels reveal how one of Lebanon's greatest writers lived between two languages, two worlds, and transformed the news of the day into stories that outlasted it

Bahaa Iy'ali 26 July 2026
Katrina Poladian delivers a speech after winning the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for her novel "The Golden Beach" in 2025. Hendrik Schmidt / Getty

Katrina Poladjan on unpacking the past to know the present

The acclaimed German novelist of Russian and Armenian descent talks to Al Majalla about her creative process and her search for belonging

Nesrein El-Bakhshawangy 30 June 2026

Umberto Eco's 'Inventing the Enemy' as relevant as ever

A forgotten lecture by the renowned Italian writer at the University of Bologna in 2008 traced the history of hatred through language, myth, and imagination, all of which still apply today

Antoine Jockey 28 June 2026
In his novel 'Haha... Cough Cough... I Miraculously Survived', Sudanese novelist Mustafa Khalid Mustafa portrays war as a complex human experience.

Mustafa Khalid's latest novel distills the chaos of war

In his award-winning novel 'Haha... Cough Cough... I Miraculously Survived,' six narrators give different yet intersecting accounts of Sudan's nightmarish conflict

Mansour Al-Souaim 03 June 2026
Moroccan scholar Mustapha Rajwan

Mustapha Rajwan: the greatest service to a text is to interpret it

The Moroccan scholar has just won another award for his latest book. He spoke to Al Majalla about plots, characters, and the rhetoric of narrative.

Abeer Younis 01 June 2026
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Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar, and Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 5 October 2026. Turkish Foreign Ministry/Handout via REUTERS
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The Mecca Defence Alliance faces its first practical test

07, Oct 2026

Türkiye and Pakistan have stepped up to help Saudi Arabia after it came under attack from the Houthis. The trio's coordination comes at a crucial time

Kaswar Klasra
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After October 7: new faces, changing maps

08, Oct 2026

Al Majalla examines this changed landscape—from Israel's domestic political scene to its external ambitions, where it occupies large swathes of new territory in the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria

Al Majalla - London
The leaders of Egypt, Somalia, Sudan and Eritrea met in Alamein Egypt on 4 October to discuss regional tensions. Eritrea Ministry of Information via X
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Have Ethiopia's neighbours formed an alliance against it?

06, Oct 2026

The leaders of Egypt, Somalia, Sudan, and Eritrea met in Alamein on Sunday, which some interpret as a formation of a loose security alliance aimed at influencing the geopolitics of the Horn of Africa

Amr Emam
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Business & Economy

Why Europe’s gold is on the move

07, Oct 2026

Headlines have centred on the flight of bullion while commentators have speculated about the prompts. The reality is a little more nuanced

Abdulfattah Khattab
Culture & Social Affairs

The 9 Arab films vying for an Oscar

08, Oct 2026

From Gaza to Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Jordan, Iraq, and Algeria, this year's Arab Oscar submissions explore stories of conflict, displacement, memory, and survival

Wael Said

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