Abdullah Bugis

Rached Ghannouchi, the founder of Tunisia’s Ennahda movement and a former speaker of parliament, is not a name whose relevance began only with the so-called Arab Spring. Long before 2011, he had been one of the most...

Bilal Erdoğan’s visit to Malaysia was not merely another high-profile stop by a Turkish public figure. It became a useful window into how Kuala Lumpur and Ankara are trying to convert cultural affinity, Islamic identity...

The crisis in West Asia is no longer read in Malaysia through Palestine alone, nor through Iran, Israel, or the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states as separate files. In the first lecture of his academic visit to...

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is no longer a distant theatre for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and ASEAN is no longer a peripheral economic bloc for the Middle East. Between the two regions...

MalaysiaNow’s report on Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s reception of Muslim World League secretary-general Mohammad Abdulkarim Al-Issa has reopened a delicate debate in Kuala Lumpur: not merely about a controversial...

In Kuala Lumpur, the Defence Services Asia (DSA) and National Security Asia 2026 Exhibition was more than a marketplace for drones, armoured vehicles, missiles and surveillance systems. It became a window into how...

The meeting between the ambassadors of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states and a Malaysian parliamentary committee was not a diplomatic footnote. It was an attempt to break Malaysia’s grey reading of the...

In the digital age, the frontlines of conflict have shifted from the physical to the linguistic. Extremist ideologies spread not only through weapons but through words—words amplified by algorithms, disguised in memes,...