Author: DPstaff

How Arab Filmmakers Investigate the Desert and the Peninsula

Film curator, writer and academic Roisin Tapponi looks at how contemporary Arabic filmmakers use thirst…

Pakistan Floods 2022: ‘Most Misgoverned Parts Are Worst Hit’

IRSHAD SALIM (Updated) — The OCHA Humanitarian Advisory Team (HAT) in Pakistan has published its…

Floods in Pakistan: THREE Videos on Human Endurance, Resilience

The deadly flooding in Pakistan is the worst disaster in a decade –at least 33…

The Strait of Hormuz آبنائے ہرمز (Video)

The Strait of Hormuz linking the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman provides the…

What We Owe the Future

Scott Alexander in Astral Codex Ten: If the point of publishing a book is to…

Nayyara Noor Renders Faiz Poem on Former East Pakistan (Video)

Nayyara Noor renders her voice with music to the poem written by Faiz Ahmed Faiz…

CONVERSATION: Pakistan a ‘Soft State With a Very Strong Society’

“Pakistan required strong rule of law and stronger institutions” Pakistan is a land of opportunities…

Inequality, Justice, and Economics

by Raji Jayaraman in 3QuarksDaily: In the last two decades the topic of inequality has…

UPDATE on Imran Khan: Slapped With ‘Terrorism Charges’

IRSHAD SALIM — The United Nations (UN) chief has called for an independent and impartial…

Longtermism: The New Moral Mathematics

In his new book, philosopher William MacAskill implies that humanity’s long-term survival matters more than…

Anywhere But Here: Where Did the Pandemic Start?

Jon Cohen in Science: When Alice Hughes downloaded a preprint from the server Research Square in…

The Idiots, Tribes People, the Citizen Personalities (Video)

Watch and listen to Dr. Kethoser Kevichusa (of Nagaland, India) discuss how the Greeks looked…