Tag: MAHIR ALI articles
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...
On the brink – Mahir Ali
FIFTY shades of grey: that just about sums up my abiding impression of Minsk. But that’s based on a wintry sojourn more than 40...
No big deal? – Mahir Ali
THE foreign ministers of Israel and the UAE openly exchanged phone calls this week. It was more a case of ‘hear my ring’...
Pity the nation? – Mahir Ali
JUST two days before the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, a mushroom cloud briefly reared its head on the shores of...
Apocalypse then – Mahir Ali
IT may be an exaggeration to say the world lost its innocence on July 16, 1945. On the other hand, it would probably be...
American nightmare – Mahir Ali
PORTLAND in Oregon was among the several American cities where the spontaneous protests sparked by the police murder of George Floyd just over two...
A different world – Mahir Ali
WHEN foreign delegates to the second congress of the Communist International reached Petrograd 100 years ago this month, the atmosphere was somewhat different from...
Beyond the disease – Mahir Ali
STOP the world — I want to get off’ was a mildly amusing meme some decades ago. In recent weeks, the world has indeed...
When China sneezes – Mahir Ali
BEYOND the inevitably immediate concerns about the steadily rising death toll from the Wuhan coronavirus infection and the prospects of a worldwide pandemic, crucial...