Tag: MAHIR ALI
A man’s world – Mahir Ali
IT wasn’t a particularly sensitive choice of words when the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, declared on Monday that his government would henceforth look...
Our parting blow – Mahir Ali
IT would be tricky to designate the starting point of the subcontinent’s second partition. The seeds, it could be argued, were sown during the...
Fight or flight? – Mahir Ali
IN recent years, as the negotiations phase in the 21st-century variant of the Great Game has gathered pace, every cliché in the diplomatic playbook...
Blood and oil – Mahir Ali
THERE was nothing new in the US intelligence assessment about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi released last week. Anyone with even a few...
A joy forever. – Mahir Ali
THE headstone above a final resting place dug in Rome’s non-Catholic cemetery 200 years ago today bears the indelible inscription: “This grave contains...
Putin’s nemesis… – Mahir Ali
THE scale of the threat Alexei Navalny poses to the status quo in Russia is hard to estimate.
After all, even the unusually widespread protests...
Biden: his time? – Mahir Ali
NOT long after being sworn in at midday local time today in Washington D.C. as the 46th president of the world’s most powerful country,...
‘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...