Z KhandakerMedieval The Idea of the 'Dark Ages' Is a Myth. Here's Why Medieval Scientific Progress Still Matters TIME - By Seb Falk“Residents frustrated at ‘medieval’ cellphone coverage in the Far North,” ran the headline on a New Zealand news website. Communities on the shores of the Pacific Ocean were fed up with constant poor which...
Z KhandakerMexico 'Truth and lies have eroded': why an artist took over a billboard at the US-Mexico border verified_publisherThe Guardian - Osman Can YerebakanThe artist Stefan Brüggemann woke up at his London apartment last Wednesday to Donald Trump declaring he had won the presidency. It was, of course, a lie. “The second I turned on YouTube, I saw him and...
Z KhandakerU.S. Politics This is no conventional coup. Trump is paving the way for a 'virtual Confederacy' verified_publisherThe Guardian - Jonathan FreedlandNot for the first time, Donald Trump’s unhinged behaviour prompts an uncomfortable question: should we be laughing in derision or trembling with fear? Is he playing out his last days as nothing more than...
Z KhandakerFrance French battle against Islamist ‘separatism’ is at odds with commitment to liberty Financial Times - Olivier RoyThe writer is a professor at European University Institute At the beginning of October, before the terrorist murders of a school teacher outside Paris and three people in a church in the southern city...
Z KhandakerExtremism Macron's crusade against Islam is political extremism at its worst middleeasteye.net Pondering the strained relations between France and Islam, my memory takes me back to the end of the 1980s, when I was a young student participating …
