The age-old quest for a better life, the ever-increasing speed of travel that forms the heart of globalization, has also transformed modern literature. London-based writer Salil Tripathi describes Amitav Ghosh and Salman Rushdie, both born in India and now living and celebrated in the West, as...
LONDON: To say globalization has transformed the world is a cliché, and that includes literature and their narrators. Two India-born novelists Salman Rushdie and Amitav Ghosh have perhaps been the most successful in vividly portraying the lives of...
Egypt is investing US$35 million in its National Supplier Development Program in an effort to prepare its protectionist economy for gradually-increasing openness to international trade. The venture targets small- and medium-size Egyptian businesses supplying larger "mother companies"...
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Along with jobs, "is America also exporting its notion of what constitutes fairness in the workplace," asks the author of this Financial Times article. Whereas only a few years ago, sexual harassment litigations were unique to the American workplace, such cases are more and more common in...
Films, fashion, food: American cultural colonialism is felt around the globe. But are the workplaces of the world also being globalised? Exporting jobs is one thing: but is America also exporting its notion of what...
As a political issue, climate change has fallen off the US policy agenda due to an economic downturn and dogged insistence by climate-change naysayers that science has not produced enough evidence on whether human activity contributes to global warming. The United States stands as the “one...
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Such a dichotomous opposition of terms as the “West” and “Islam” will inevitably be loaded with misunderstanding and contention. If words alone perpetuate misconceptions, then political, strategic and cultural relations between the two entities can be expected to be more complex. In discussing the...
The relationship between Islam and the West will be a defining feature of the 21st century, particularly in the Middle East. The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life hosted a discussion of these issues with Professor...
The US and Europe – firm allies throughout the 20th century – now differ on many issues, global security in particular. This YaleGlobal series analyzes the European-American relationship and points to areas of fracture. In the first article, journalist and author Bruce Stokes describes the world’s...
Global divide: Though different in their approaches, neither US
candidate may be able to bridge the gap between American and world opinion
DENVER: The United States elects a president in two months. The whole...
Sport is an age-old metaphor for politics – and Asian affairs analyst Sadanand Dhume looks at the Asian Games in the light of the region's traditional rivalries. China captured more medals than any other nation, almost three times as many gold medals as runner-up South Korea. China’s...
Golden teamwork: Chinese athletes dazzled the Asian Games and took home many gold medals
WASHINGTON: As sporting events go, the Asian Games, whose 15th edition concluded last month in Doha, are something of a...
About 60 percent of the electorate turned out in Crimea for a special referendum; reports suggest that 95 percent voted to join Russia. Next, Russia will decide whether to annex the peninsula it passed to Ukraine in 1954. Most of the international community opposed the hurried election, especially...
As residents of Crimea queue to cast their votes on a referendum Sunday on whether to join Russia or remain with Ukraine, the world has already cast its ballot. The verdict from prevailing world opinion is an overwhelming 'nyet' for Russia's...
