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Fashion Week in Pakistan: Can Couture Trump Conservatism?

Fashionistas the world over will look to the Big Apple as the spotlight falls on New York City ahead of the start of its glitzy Fashion Week this Thursday. But, away from the catwalks and cocktail parties of fashion’s North American capital, the industry struts its stuff in far more troubled frontiers. I attended Pakistan’s Fashion Week …

Firebombed French Paper Is No Free Speech Martyr


Okay, so can we finally stop with the idiotic, divisive, and destructive efforts by “majority sections” of Western nations to bait Muslim members with petulant, futile demonstrations that “they” aren’t going to tell “us” what can and can’t be done in free societies? Because not only are such Islamophobic antics futile …

No Bikes for You: Nigeria Bans Motorcycles in Terror-Struck City

Officials in Maiduguri, Nigeria’s seventh largest city and capital of northeastern Borno State, banned motorbikes earlier this week in a bid to curb militant activities borne on the backs of these ubiquitous vehicles.

Yet even though nearly 7,000 innocent Nigerians have now found their livelihoods on the wrong side of the law, the …

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