Our columnist returns to Egypt from nine months in London. But it is not he who has changed.
Our columnist attends a conference and can see why Gandhi suggested that humans are best organized in the small compounds he called “Swadeshi”.
Holding elections for the Constitutional Commission will be a step in the right direction but to stop this process being hijacked or derailed the state has to show some strength and follow through on their actions.
The way Jordanians imagine their national collective identity must evolve from tolerance to acceptance and from diversity to true inclusion.
A year of living through a war which has transitioned to an unprecedented level of killing and massacres in this country has seen to a fracturing and fractioning of Syrian identity.
Two years ago, the rallying cry was "The people demand social justice", which was more open ended, proving its tenuousness in the question of Palestinian solidarity.
Each university has a right to set their own guidelines for the wearing of the niqab and religious activity in general on campus. But the issue has become too divisive.
While a protracted civil conflict in Lebanon is unlikely, a clash between Hezbollah and Israel is only too feasible.
Perhaps Turkey has never used tear gas in its 90-year history as much as it has done in the last ten years.
The influx of journalists, writers, thinkers and generally socially engaged expatriates, alongside a growing class of civically minded Qataris ensures that these dark sides no longer remain hidden from view.
The battle for culture, the conquest of space, the re-interpretation of heritage and the competition for writing Bahrain’s collective memory are well under way in an island roughly half the size of New York City.
