Tag: Muna Khan

IN the mid-1980s, our English teacher at school in Kuwait got us to read The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. It’s set in rural America in the 1960s and tells the … Read More

I AM not alone in worrying about the future of journalism. I learned this in my conversations (in person and online) with journalism instructors in the US, Canada and Armenia. … Read More

I WAS looking for Botox in all the wrong places. In my quest to find a doctor who uses the neurotoxin for pain management, I came across a lot of … Read More

THE only movie I wanted to watch on my trip to the US last month was Dev Patel’s Monkey Man. I was blown away by the trailer and was curious … Read More

I HAVE a distinct memory of sitting at my dear friend Duc’s cafe-cum-gallery in Hanoi watching CNN discuss Barack Obama’s foreign policy right after he became president in 2009. All … Read More

I UNDERSTAND that politics is the art of compromise, but why must women’s bo­­dies be sacrificed at the altar of deal-making? This question weighs heavily on my mind, but I’ve … Read More

YOU can’t get all your news from headlines. I was reminded of this last month in the US, when reading stories about Harvard president Claudine Gay’s resignation following allegations of … Read More

PAKISTAN has given me citizenship and an autoimmune disease. This is my assessment, not my doctor’s obviously. I am aware of my privilege and how it gives me access to … Read More

HAVE you watched a show, movie, press conference and then heard someone talk about it and wondered whether you both saw the same thing? It is not about having different … Read More

WHEN I landed in Beirut in 2009, the immigration officer asked if it was my first time in Lebanon. Technically it wasn’t, I told him, because I was here as … Read More