J J Robinson

J J Robinson is a media-development expert and the former editor of Maldives Independent (previously Minivan News). He is a Fulbright scholar and the author of Maldives: Islamic Republic, Tropical Autocracy.

Youth protests take on the Maldives’s political culture after a woman’s fall

A woman’s unexplained fall from a Malé building has set off protests against “nepo-babies” and an alleged cover-up as a new generation confronts the Maldives’s political culture

By J J Robinson

/ 2 May 2025

Youth protests take on the Maldives’s political culture after a woman’s fall

Paradise Lost

Reporting the dark side of the Maldives.

By J J Robinson

/ 17 Jun 2014

The men who would be king

Abdulla Yameen’s narrow win over Mohamed Nasheed in the 2013 Maldives election was greeted with scant celebration, both on the streets of Male and in the victor’s camp.

By J J Robinson

/ 6 Dec 2013

Pictures in Paradise

Entertainment in the Maldives

By J J Robinson

/ 15 Sep 2013