In multicultural families, deciding on where to raise your child is no easy matter and has profound implications for the future.
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In multicultural families, deciding on where to raise your child is no easy matter and has profound implications for the future.
Learning Arabic is tough but it can open you up to a whole new world of cultural experiences and opportunities, not to mention build understanding.
There’s more than enough fresh water in the world to sate our thirst. The problem is getting it to where it is desperately needed.
Can we look forward to a boom in Arab science or will poverty, bureaucracy and religion be insurmountable obstacles?
If we suspend scepticism and take up Barack Obama’s invitation to dream of change, what Middle East can the audacity of hope help to forge?
A new book lifts the veil off Israel’s Arab face and shows how, like the Palestinians, Middle Eastern Jews fell victim to political forces beyond their control.
By Khaled Diab A secular society confines religion to the spiritual sphere where it belongs, and leaves worldly affairs to human resourcefulness. April 2009 In my previous piece on Arab secularism, both overt and veiled, I promised to consider ways of advancing progressive secularism in the Arab world. The question of bringing the Arab...
بقلـم خالد دياب كان أحد شعارات حملة باراك أوباما الناجحة “تغيير نستطيع أن نؤمن به”. ومع توليه الرئاسة، تغير كل شيء، إلا أن شيئاً لم يتغير بالنسبة لسياسة الولايات المتحدة الخارجية تجاه النزاع الإسرائيلي الفلسطيني. قدم أوباما، مقارنة بسلفه، تحولاً كبيراً في لغة السياسة الخارجية، حيث تعهد الاعتماد بصورة أقل على التدخل العسكري وبصورة...
By Khaled Diab The taboo surrounding the cruel murder of family members in the name of honour is slowly being broken. May 2009 Though relatively rare, killing a family member in the name of honour should be a cause for shame, not pride, as it reflects a cowardly compliance with inhumane norms. Killing someone,...
By Khaled Diab One of Barack Obama’s winning campaign slogans was “change we can believe in”. And with his presidency, everything has changed and nothing has changed when it comes to US foreign policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Compared with his predecessor, Obama has already delivered a substantive rhetorical shift in US foreign policy,...
