Ibrahim Hamidi

Ibrahim Hamidi is Editor-in-Chief of Al Majalla

Putin gets a bitter taste of rebellion

The secret weapon employed by President Vladimir Putin in his foreign campaigns and efforts to expand his global influence had once presented a…

A Syrian "gift" and a Russian "road map"

In Cairo, a "gift" arrived from Damascus, marking the efforts made by the latter to advance the process of Arab normalisation. Simultaneously, Moscow…

The age of soft power is officially over

By the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, intellectuals and politicians championed the concept of "soft…

Erdogan’s victory and Syria’s divisions

The Syrians’ interest in the Turkish presidential elections — more so than others in the region — is understandable.Turkey is a neighbouring country…