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Today I Converted to “Islam”
I was “born a Muslim” so to speak. Some of you know my parents; they are “chill parents”. They encouraged me to read relentlessly. Also to argue with them annoyingly about everything the minute I could do so. Our discus...
Eaten to Extinction: Asia’s Appetite for the Endangered
A big step has been made in the fight against the illegal animal trade. The sixteenth conference of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), held in the Southeast Asian hub of Bangkok this March, ann...
Footballers After Football: The Sustainability of the Game & Potential Gains for the British Government
Footballers after football – financially set for life, attractive wife, worshipped by thousands after a career living every boy’s dream. What could possibly go wrong? Well, recent studies show that quite a lot can, and ...
WATCH: Holistic Planned Grazing: Is This the Solution to Climate Change?
Burning fossil fuels isn’t the only way to pour carbon into the atmosphere. In this TED talk, Zimbabwean ecologist Allan Savory explains how desertification – the process of land turning into desert – is an equal if not...
Silent No More: Lebanon’s Migrants Fight the Kafala System
On the 14th of March 2012, a woman named Alem Dechasa committed suicide by hanging herself in her room at Der El-Salib mental hospital. Four days prior, as witnessed by an amateur video, she was kidnapped by her owner, her ma...
Anyone for alphabet soup? A guide to Asia-Pacific regionalism
ASEAN, APEC, EAS, ARF, SAARC, PIF, ASEAN+3, AEC, ASEM, CAEC, AEM, CAREC, SCO, PBEC, PECC, SPT. Is this a bad version of scrabble? Or a random jumble of unrelated letters? No. In fact, these are just some of the many regional in...
