Politics

The BRICS Dialogue on Civilizations event was held in Kazan, Russia, with more than 300 participants representing BRICS member countries through philosophy, culture, arts and sports exchanges.

Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei stresses the need for Muslim unity as a Quranic principle during the Islamic Unity Week in Iran.

Muslim voters in key US swing states prefer Jill Stein ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris.

Research Fellow Dr Rahman Yaacob say that like other Southeast Asian states, Malaysia does not view strategic partnerships through a binary lens and argues that Malaysia considers it possible to move closer to China without distancing itself from Australia.

Award-winning Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Sufyan Gulam Ismail argues that the UK Labour Party needs to show the Muslim constituency that it takes their concerns seriously and wins back hearts and minds as a matter of realpolitik and prudent electoral strategy.

According to Writer Fahad Khan, come November 2024, the struggle is real for US-based Muslim voters who find themselves hard-pressed to find alignment of values with mainstream party candidates.

According to Kazakhstan’s Deputy Foreign Minister Roman Vassilenko, in a recent meeting between his boss Murat Nurtleu and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, the European officials said that “Kazakhstan used to be in the middle of nowhere, and now it is in the middle of everywhere”. The summit in Astana has yet again shown that Kazakhstan continues to emerge as a middle power.

Retired ambassador and author Javid Husain argues that a lack cultural and political awareness with Afghani society and its neighbours, as well as an indiscriminate use of force by US-led NATO forces, which caused huge damage to properties and the loss of innocent lives, including women and children, led to a stunning strategic defeat not seen since Vietnam.