Nesrine Malik
@NesrineMalik
Columnist, long read, and features writer - The Guardian. Georgetown Fellow. [email protected]
Reporting from Doha and London over several months, what became clear is how much Qatar is quietly beginning to underpin global security. From Gaza to Ukraine to the DRC, Doha's role is staggeringly wide-ranging.
The go-between. My long read on how Qatar has become the diplomatic capital of the world, and the power it has accumulated in the process. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
"Qatar is a rich country with a poor man’s mindset, a powerful country with a weak one’s vigilance." - @NesrineMalik on how tiny yet wealthy Qatar become a cornerstone of global diplomacy. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
كيف أصبحت #قطر عاصمة عالمية للدبلوماسية؟ كانت الضربة شأنا مُدبّرا بعناية بين #إيران والولايات المتحدة وقطر. قبل ساعات من الهجوم، أبلغت إيران الأمريكيين بإطلاق صواريخ على #قاعدة_العديد. وأبلغ الأمريكيون بدورهم القطريين، الذين أغلقوا مجالهم الجوي تحسبًا لذلك theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
The go-between. My long read on how Qatar has become the diplomatic capital of the world, and the power it has accumulated in the process. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
In the UK you can be arrested for flying a Palestinian flag but it's fine to send millions of pounds to an illegal Jewish settlement responsible for racist violence & ethnically cleansing Palestinians. Story by the great @Haroon_Siddique. @ChtyCommission theguardian.com/society/2025/j…
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Emmanuel Carrère on Emmanuel Macron 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 theguardian.com/news/2025/jul/…
A moment of much appreciated sanity from @archiebland theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
‘Mamdani is not alone. Not by a long shot. In drawing out such naked anti-Muslim hate, Mamdani has revealed the ugliness and weakness not just of his opponents, but of the wider political establishment, as well as their anti-democratic impulses.’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
‘Mamdani is not alone. Not by a long shot. In drawing out such naked anti-Muslim hate, Mamdani has revealed the ugliness and weakness not just of his opponents, but of the wider political establishment, as well as their anti-democratic impulses.’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
‘Mamdani is not alone. Not by a long shot. In drawing out such naked anti-Muslim hate, Mamdani has revealed the ugliness and weakness not just of his opponents, but of the wider political establishment, as well as their anti-democratic impulses.’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Children clung to life in Sudan by the slenderest of threads, supported by community soup kitchens. Then the USAID funding cuts came, and their mothers watched them starve to death one by one. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/…
The Emirati sheikh is best known as the owner of a top British soccer team. But behind the scenes, he is the “handler” guiding secret wars in Sudan and elsewhere. With @tariqpanja nytimes.com/2025/06/29/wor…
Ah, the time of yeeting a PM at the public and shouting down anyone who questions their quality is over. And also it never happened. Just a series of unfortunate shortcomings that were entirely unforeseeable until they were suddenly fatal.
“It tells a story of a fundamentally incompetent prime minister.” Political biographer Sir Anthony Seldon believes that Keir Starmer has made the worst start of any Labour prime minister since 1945. #Newsnight
'This is Labour’s poll tax. Its tuition fees. Its Partygate. Just as the Iraq war was for Tony Blair, disability cuts is the moral stain that will mark Starmer’s government and the party for years to come.' A furiously damning appraisal from @DrFrancesRyan
The full piece is in today’s Guardian and online here: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
I’ve worked a lot on the welfare reform bill in recent months - in press, radio, and podcasts - but today’s column is everything I need to say:
Happy for New York, who got to do democracy despite huge out-funding and media smears, but mostly happy that for a moment we live in a world where this sort of outrageous prejudice against Muslims doesn’t work and is seen for what it is
This week’s column is on western liberal leaders falling into line, co-signing Israel’s war, and their contempt for the public theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
This week’s column is on western liberal leaders falling into line, co-signing Israel’s war, and their contempt for the public theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
This week’s column is on western liberal leaders falling into line, co-signing Israel’s war, and their contempt for the public theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
