The Occupied Palestinian Territory lies within the Mediterranean Climate Zone and is one of the most vulnerable countries in terms of climate change. A typically hot, arid and water scarce region, the entire area has experienced an alarming rise in temperature over the past 50 years. That said, it is ironic that Palestine has negligible...
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BOOK REVIEW, Interview: Reveries on Grief
About the Author Safinah Danish Elahi is a lawyer by training. She is the author of the poetry collection The Unbridled Romance of Love and Pain (2019) and two novels, most recently The Idle Stance of the Tippler Pigeon (2023) and Eye on the Prize(2020) which has since been turned into a TV film. She...
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Last to Eat, Last to Learn
Book Review Last to Eat, Last to Learn My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women by Pashtana Durrani; Tamara Bralo Published by Kensington Books Last to Eat, Last to Learn, My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women is a candid narrative from a girl who was born and raised in a refugee camp...
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Opinion: Wretched Humanity
Ashen faces of children not opening their once sparkle-filled eyes, ashen faces of mothers who have lost their babies, fathers desperately digging to find life underneath the rubble. Only to find muffled screams, lifeless bodies passing on, leaving hell in the hopes to find heaven? A land they might hopefully finally call home, where...
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Publishers Conference Highlights Role of Global Industry on the Footsteps of History, Intersecting Tradition, Innovation
The Emirate of Sharjah, UAE, welcomed an incredible assembly of global publishing industry experts, literary agents and thought leaders during the three-day event: The Publishers Conference. The 13th edition of the conference offered a unique space for professionals across the publishing landscape to not just examine some of the most significant industry challenges; but also...
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Opinion: Decolonizing Empathy
They fear love because it creates a world they can’t control. George Orwell, 1984 Power has always been an enforcer of fear, hate, division, polarization in order to control. The narrative has always been about us versus them. With the influx of information, spiced with dis-info, mis-info, propaganda and linguistic manipulation across mass media, the cacophonic...
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Opinion: On the Systematic Poisoning of Public Channels of Information
Shock waves reverberated all around the globe on October 7th, 2023 when an occupied, colonized and oppressed people living in the largest open air ghetto rose in rebellion. There is no going around it. Indeed, there can never ever be justification for taking lives! That said, it is also true that oppression begets...
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Bridging the Gender Gap: Women in Pakistan’s Evolving Tech Sector
While Pakistan is going through severe economic and political turmoil at the moment, a small ray of sunshine in all this gloom and doom is the rapidly advancing tech sector of the country. Historically, women in Pakistan had to deal with numerous obstacles when venturing into the workplace. Cultural and traditional norms, patriarchy, and a...
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Unpacking Yaari
Cooper : You’re a scientist, Brand. Brand : So listen to me when I say that love isn’t something that we invented. It’s… observable, powerful. It has to mean something. Cooper : Love has meaning, yes. Social utility, social bonding, child rearing… Brand : We love people who have died. Where’s the social utility in that? Cooper : None. Brand : Maybe it means something more –...
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Deconstructing Barbenheimer
Warning: Spoilers ahead for a host of movies and TV series Barbie, Oppenheimer and Game of Thrones. Tread with caution! Today, I watched/heard a most stirring speech and it almost made me shed a tear well, almost! It goes like this: It is literally impossible to be a woman. You are so...