Beneath the white marble dome of Cairo's opera house, tucked into the quiet and secluded district of Zamalek, around 50 young Egyptian university students, many with hair pulled back under modest and brightly colored hijab, shuffle into the small auditorium to take their seats. They have come today to celebrate...

[Reported from the WISE Conference in Istanbul. All non-cited quotations or paraphrasings drawn from notes on the conference or interviews with WISE participants.]

The "fearful fatalistic apathy", which a young Winston Churchill once noted amongst the "curses [of] Mohammedanism", (Churchill, River Wars, 1899) has found frequent repetition over the...

This summer, after nearly two years of bureaucratic wrangling, the first of Pakistan's famous mangoes will appear in fruit aisles across the United States. Unfortunately, their arrival will turn few heads. Though officially the world's sweetest mango (by scientific consensus) the fortunes of this newest export seem...

During an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, Egyptian presidential hopeful Amr Moussa quipped that, while people speak optimistically of the Arab Spring, "our spring is full of sandstorms." This summer's weather is, it would seem, no calmer. Nearly five months have passed since massive protests at Cairo's Tahrir...