For quite some time, I’ve been a big fan of zunguzungu’s Sunday Reading lists. Thus, in homage, and because flattery is the sincerest form of compliment, I too shall start flooding your RSS, so to speak, with recommendations–or merely a record–of reads. (This will also, I should note, help ensure that I stop owing money […]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard of Manal Al-Sharif, the brazen Saudi woman who made history (and TIME’s Top 100 Influential People list) by videotaping herself driving a car and uploading it to YouTube. I felt lucky to have briefly met Manal back in January when I attended Yahoo’s Change Your […]
Unless you live under a rock, dear blog reader, you’ve probably witnessed the hulabaloo over the past 24 hours about an article by Mona Eltahawy entited “Why Do They Hate Us?” I don’t feel the need to comment on the article’s content, particularly as many already have, but I would instead like to comment on […]