It seems fashionable to go for what you want and not “waste time” with old-fashioned things, like acknowledging the efforts and kindnesses of others. We live in a crowded world where getting on together increases in importance as the sheer number of people you have to deal with in life continues to grow. Manners were …
Islam, it appears, hasn’t always tried to “micromanage the sex lives” of its adherents. In the Arab world’s medieval heyday, sexual expression flourished alongside the arts and science. Even in the 19th century, European travellers headed for the Orient for “unbridled thrills”. Is a sexual revolution now possible? El Feki believes education could at least …
The Huffington Post reports that Dr. Myles Faith, associate professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina, claims that picky eating (also known as food neophobia)is the result, not of bad habits or simple stubbornness, but of heredity. A study by Dr. Faith involved 66 pairs of identical twins four to seven years of …
What Middle eastern experts…….cannot get themselves to acknowledge is that Netanyahu does not accept Palestinian statehood anywhere in Palestine, and will do everything in his power to prevent it, because he and his government want the West Bank for themselves. It is as simple as that. They are convinced that with their vast military superiority …
Britain has invaded all but 22countries in the world (although the current names and borders of those countries may not have applied at the time they were invaded. (Daily Telegraph 4th November 2012). Control, control, control. Whether it is the pope telling his flock what to believe or politicians exercising their power, the wish to …
