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Mahir Ali

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Latest publication
Sep 25, 2026
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Aug 5, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Mahir Ali

    What is the UN still good for? (opens the original)

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    “It would be hard to imagine a scenario as threatening as the one we’re facing right now,” the outgoing secretary general of the UN, António Guterres acknowledged on the eve of this week’s annual shindig in New York. His calculations for this grim pronouncement stretched from the consequences of the US-Israeli aggression against Iran and the repercussions of the conflict over Ukraine to the increasingly dire evidence of climate change and the emerging threat of artificial intelligence (AI). Lip

  2. Article · Aug 13, 2026 · Mahir Ali

    Why Fidel Castro’s legacy still haunts Washington (opens the original)

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    Fidel Castro would have been amused by an unexpected encomium from the belly of the beast on the eve of his birth centenary. Even the title of last month’s US State Department 100-page diatribe, Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism, could be interpreted as a tribute. Like much else in a report intended to make the case for state capitulation or capture, this is an egregious exaggeration. The idea, obviously, is to illustrate how a small Caribbean island has posed an unacceptable threat to

  3. Article · Aug 5, 2026 · Mahir Ali

    Is there any hope for Gaza? (opens the original)

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    Only an unreasonably optimistic worldview could persuade anyone to view last week’s announcements about the Gaza Strip as a ‘breakthrough’. Hamas might have agreed to put away its weapons, but that’s contingent on Israel’s withdrawal from the occupied territory. Its armed forces control more than 70 per cent of the Strip, and says it won’t budge until Hamas ‘completely’ disarms. At best, this is a recipe merely for prolonging the status quo that followed last year’s so-called ceasefire, which ha

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