This Russian Lawmaker Thinks the US Can Take Russia Off The Internet
A deputy in the Russian parliament thinks the United States might cut off Russia’s Internet and suggests Russians take measures to get ready for the information blackout. Ilya Kostunov, the deputy in question, believes th...
Egypt: All The News That’s Unfit To Print
In 2013, Egypt was ranked 158 out of 178 countries in the annual Reporters Without Borders Freedom Index. This troubling ranking is a reflection of the Egyptian Armed Forces and the Muslim Brotherhood both of which have commi...
Stories of Africa, Stories by Africans
There is a crop of African authors entering the world’s literary scene. Like never before, African written fiction is being acknowledged and praised by booklovers, writers and publishers worldwide. The list of novels and nov...
Is Our Food Wasting Away?
When, exactly, do you decide that a system isn’t working? At what point do you admit defeat? Our global food system is so dysfunctional and warped that we must surely be accelerating towards this point. Last week, a report ...
Does Sweden Show The Way For The Regulation Of Prostitution?
A little more than 15 years ago, Sweden passed a new revolutionary law to tackle its prostitution problem. The law, named ‘sexköpslagen‘ [Sex Purchase Act] in Swedish, was an exercise in thinking outside the box an...
Alien in Lebanon: Why I Can Never Call My Country Home
A month ago, I was having dinner with my friends. I don’t know how in so many years of friendship we still manage to always stumble upon topics that we have never discussed before. On that night one of my friends was caught o...
