Semi-nude photo of Tunisian actress brings out Muslim anger Manar Ammar Nadia Bostah’s image here has created a stir in Muslim world. A semi-nude photo published by a Tunisian actress has stirred some negative responses from people around the Arab world after the actress appeared wearing revealing clothes and was compared to Egyptian activist Aliya…
The Gingrich WASHINGTON – We’re licking our chops. If it was just for the serious matter of electing the “leader of the free world,” as they say (albeit less and less), the possibility of seeing Newt Gingrich become the Republican nominee for the November 2012 U.S. presidential elections would be just fine…
Our prime minister has suddenly reached elevated status in Western capitals. Not so long ago, the same voices were accusing Recep Tayyip Erdogan an of changing Turkey’s orientation, of aspiring to establish an Islamic Republic. Now they are applauding him. Why? What happened to turn the tides so dramatically? What we have been witnessing over…
The Sex Addiction Epidemic It wrecks marriages, destroys careers, and saps self-worth. Yet Americans are being diagnosed as sex addicts in record numbers. Inside an epidemic. Valerie realized that sex was wrecking her life right around the time her second marriage disintegrated. At 30, and employed as a human-resources administrator…
A protester waves Egypt’s flag as riot police fire tear gas during clashes near Tahrir Square in Cairo; a plea for donations is made at the Occupy London camp outside St. Paul’s Cathedral
What’s at stake in Syria goes well beyond the mere fate of a local dictatorship – however deadly it may be. What is at stake, and is on the brink of collapse, is a major strategic alliance in the Middle East. The Syrians who have been challenging Bashar al-Assad’s regime since March – many paying…
Relationship Between Artistic Success And Mating Success Your date lets it slip: “I’m an artist.” Do these words scream “code red” or “take me to bed”? According to some scientists, even human beings are just trying to make it in the animal kingdom, and everything we do can be…
In the Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction with his book The Sense of an Ending. In his boyhood in the 1950s, Tony Webster remembers, adolescence felt like a holding pen where the young were imprisoned for what seemed like eternity. Finally they were released into adulthood and…
Near Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, the Country Brand Index’s highest ranked Latin American country Conducting business meetings isn’t easy when people don’t even know you exist. Just ask Eduardo Clari, an investments specialist. Paraguay’s state export and investment promotion agency. “They confuse us with Uruguay. Or else they think we’re part of Brazil,” says…
Monoculture: How Our Era’s Dominant Story Shapes Our Lives What Galileo has to do with the economy, or how Wall Street is molding your taste in art. “The universe is made of stories, not atoms,” poet Muriel Rukeyser famously proclaimed. The stories we tell ourselves and each other are how we make sense of the…