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As he’s my boss, I’m gambling my career in saying this – but I think Rob Corder has got it completely wrong, says Anil Bhoyrul.
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Imagine the good that could come from buying out the despotic Kim Jong Ils of the world, William Pesek argues.
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Whenever I travel in the Muslim world, from Malaysia to Qatar to Turkey, I always seem to get the same incredulous questions from locals: “You’re Muslim?!” (as a white woman in a hijab, I am seen as utterly incongruous), followed by, “What’s it like for Muslims in Australia?”. The more politically informed will often then follow up with, “isn’t Australia a very racist country?”
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I just came back from New York and once again, I’ve gained weight. In the past I dined with Jenny Craig, sweated to The Oldies, weighed in with Weight Watchers and rowed enough oceans to charter the Queen Mary with Frequent Rower Miles. But try as I might to shed my unwanted weight, my aspirations collapse at the Ministry of the Menu.
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On September 12, 2001, I and many Muslims like me woke up to an uncertain future. All around us — people were asking questions about our faith, our ethics, our treatment of women. One question, however, rose above the cacophony of others: Where are Muslims’ leaders? Who speaks for Muslims? Who do Muslims emulate and why?
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It is a tragically ironic scenario when a television station dedicated to helping bridge cross-cultural divides becomes the scene of a horrifying murder.
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Change may bring in the new, but is the new always better than the old? Darah Rateb finds out from the Mideast.
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Long term goals can survive short term shocks, but only if plans are adjusted along the way, says Rob Corder.
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More often than not, the above is the question that American, British and Arab friends have been asking me since the Iraqi provincial elections took place on the 31st of January 2009.
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Jerusalem exists today is in a distant exile that is not to be found on any Arab or Palestinian map. In the city today there is a struggling and fragmented group of Palestinians living between Jewish settlements, military checkpoints, and the Separation Wall.
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Echoing a key theme of his inauguration speech, President Barack Obama, during his first interview with an Arab news channel, told the Muslim world that he holds a world view based on the following principle:
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A $10 billion line of credit by the UAE Central Bank has more than monetary value to the government of Dubai.
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Although I am a patron of several excellent organisations, I have only recently set up my own charitable bodies. So I’m delighted to have been asked to write this article for the charity, Philanthropy UK.
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There is no snow in Kabul. An indication of the drought that has plagued Afghanistan in recent years, a low volume of winter snowfall bodes ill for the city's water supplies in 2009.
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Why the new US President Barack Obama should reverse almost every policy of the Bush era.
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While the public sector traditionally offers greater job security, that very fact ensures that such jobs are in finite supply.
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President Obama needs to roll up his sleeves and start getting on with the hard slog of saving the economy.
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Why the 44th President of the United States of America must forge a new deal with the Middle East.
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The ongoing turmoil in financial markets can only act as a positive influence on Gulf economies in the long term.
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Riad Kamal is CEO of construction giant Arabtec. He is also deputy chairman of the Welfare Association.
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