Tag: MAHIR ALI articles
‘Ugly Americans’ – Mahir Ali
THE Ugly American is the title of a 1958 novel by William Lederer and Eugene Burdick. It is a lightly fictionalised account of US...
Twilight zone – Mahir Ali
IN less extraordinary times, the certification of electoral college votes on Capitol Hill is little more than a formality. Today, however, the usually...
Beyond the plague – Mahir Ali
CAN anyone recall another year in recent decades that humanity collectively has been so keen to get past? The urge to leave 2020...
Bitter spring – Mahir Ali
EVEN in his hometown of Sidi Bouzid, many people don’t look back kindly on Mohamed Bouazizi, the 26-year-old Tunisian fruit vendor who set...
Ode to excellence – Mahir Ali
“IF music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it…” The opening lines of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night might have entered...
Democracy’s limits- Mahir Ali
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NOWADAYS, the notion of ‘foreign electoral interference’ conjures up images of so-called troll farms in Eastern Europe or elsewhere...
Chinese muzzle – Mahir Ali
LATE last week, China’s President Xi Jinping was quoted by Xinhua news agency as saying at a two-day conference: “Viewed overall, Xinjiang is enjoying...
Supremely Ruth-less – Mahir Ali
AMERICAN politics, with its panoply of acrobats, jugglers and clowns, often resembles a circus, particularly in election years.
This year’s performance, already unprecedented in...
Fallen stars – Mahir Ali
THERE was at least one fellow star performer at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967 who was not in the least amused...
Baku and beyond – Mahir Ali
THE British writer H.G Wells described it as “a quite wonderful accumulation of white, black, brown, and yellow people, Asiatic costumes and astonishing weapons...