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Overall, construction output in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is expected to remain below 2019 levels until 2023, says the “United Arab Emirates (UAE) Construction Market Size, Trends and Forecasts
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Krithika Varagur in The New Republic: It’s remarkable: For more than a year, it’s been impossible to describe any world leader as a version of the sitting U.S. president. Run
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Comment By Jeannie Suk Gersen in the New Yorker: IN 2003, when the Supreme Court held, in Lawrence v. Texas, that criminalizing gay sex was unconstitutional, it insisted that the decision had
Unable to use her hands, arms, or legs, 21-yr-old Afghan artist Robaba Mohammadi has defied unlikely odds in her land-locked country that has faced decades of invasions, seen millions of
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As societies get bigger, we require more and more elaborate and law-like forms of religion to prevent breakdown Matthew Reisz in The Guardian: Robin Dunbar sets out to offer nothing
A new IMF-approved tax regime is crippling Pakistan’s green energy sector Lee Harris in Phenomenal World: After weeks of rising domestic pressure, a spiraling economic crisis, and the swift loss
From ‘Ghabrana Nahi’ (Don’t be afraid) to ‘Ghabrana Chor Doh’ (Doff fear) is the battlecry of Imran Khan’s telegraphic travelogue of ‘Project Democracy’ in Pakistan. According to several independent observers
Alan Jacobs in The New Atlantis: On January 6, 2021, Samuel Camargo posted a video on Instagram showing him struggling to break through a police barrier to get into the U.S.
“Yes, I feel the change has been abetted by USA, but even they must be surprised how easily they did it”, a highly placed source in Islamabad tells DesPardes. He
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Describing ourselves in the language of neurobiology has got to be one of the stranger trends in our medical age. I’m depressed because my serotonin levels are low. I cried
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Amartya Sen recently spoke from his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the New Statesman’s ideas editor, Gavin Jacobson. Gavin Jacobson in The New Statesman: The history of economics owes many of its
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Jonathan Haidt in The Atlantic: The story of Babel is the best metaphor I have found for what happened to America in the 2010s, and for the fractured country we
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