The Majalla Magazine

Since it was first published in 1980 from its head office in London, The Majalla has been considered one of the leading political affairs magazines of the Arab World.



Stephen Glain
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on : Tuesday, 21 May, 2013

Sibling Rivalry

In an interview last month, Egyptian politician Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh displayed the poise and good humor of a man who had the foresight to step off a bus before it rolled into a ditch. The former Muslim Brotherhood member spoke confidently about newly democratic Egypt, which he said would succeed so long as it remained true to its ecumenical, secular traditions. "Religion should change society indirectly through inspiration, not directly through politics," he said from his office in subu...

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Keily Miller
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on : Wednesday, 15 May, 2013

The Trouble with the B–B Axis

The fight for Iraqi oil is a story smugly told. Countless observers have remarked on the irony of Western firms’ withdrawal from southern Iraqi oil fields and the flurry of new contracts between Baghdad and Beijing, in what International Energy Agency chief economist Fatih Birol termed “the B–B axis.” Chinese producers from the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), and the China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec) have sna...

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Alex Vatanka
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on : Tuesday, 7 May, 2013

Problems in the Pipeline

In Pakistan’s feverish election season, politicians in the country are promising an array of solutions to an excruciating crisis: its acute energy shortage. There seems to ...

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James Jeffrey & Soner Cagaptay
on : Tuesday, 30 Apr, 2013

Tempered Islamism

Turkey became a true multi-party democracy in 1950, and it has been holding free and fair elections ever since. Not counting the four years spent under military leadership followin...

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Tam Hussein
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on : Wednesday, 24 Apr, 2013

The Brotherhood’s Man in London

Out of all the places to meet Zuheir Salem, the number two man of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood (SMB), a David Brent-style office in Alperton, north London, is probably the lea...

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James Denselow
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on : Friday, 12 Apr, 2013

The Stateless Statesmen

The vast majority of global debate over the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq has focused on the rights and wrongs of the decision to go to war and questions over whether t...

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Nicholas Birch
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on : Monday, 8 Apr, 2013

Big Brother Erdoğan

Five years ago in Diyarbakır, a Kurdish city built on a volcanic outcrop over a bend in the River Tigris in southeast Turkey, I met a man who was famous for ending blood feuds. ...

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Abdullah Al-Rashid
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on : Thursday, 21 Mar, 2013

Democracy and the Caliphate

An article entitled “Doctrines of People in Elections,” published on March 20, 2005, on the website Islam Today , described elections as a “mishap” and presented the “cor...

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Mehdi Khalaji
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on : Thursday, 14 Mar, 2013

Déjà Vu in Cairo

I arrived at the hotel at 4:30 p.m. I left my baggage in the room, picked up the map and went out. I had read on the plane that there was a demonstration in Tahrir Square organ...

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The Majalla
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on : Thursday, 10 Jan, 2013

Lawrence of Legend

When I was spending summer afternoons copying Arabic lettering off the blackboard at Oxford University’s Oriental Institute, I would often catch myself staring out of the...

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