Telling Stories Through Numbers with Daniel Tammet
“Mathematics isn’t simply about counting – it’s about recounting stories”. This is how Daniel Tammet, best-selling author,...
New Internationalist Article on Revolutionary Women
This October’s edition of the New Internationalist has seen my first contribution to the publication. NI October 2012: Youth Rising – Why...
Experiencing Ramadan: Local MP fasts for a day
Yesterday my local MP for Leicester South, Jon Ashworth, decided to try out fasting for the day. He visited my family home to have a chat about how...
Film Review: Page Eight
“Attempting to do dishonourable work in an honourable way”. This quote from Page Eight sums up the vision of its lead character – a senior MI5...
Blogfest in Budapest
Last week I wandered the streets of Budapest – a city cited as one of the most beautiful in Europe. Its extensive World Heritage sites include the...
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Bundle the Beatles, Madonna and Elvis into a cultural exchange time-travelling cabinet. Open its door in Egypt and out...
The Isolated Whirlpool of Tahrir
Spending the week before Christmas in Cairo was a stark reminder that the Egyptian Revolution is far from being over....
Take back the tech
In Cairo and New Dehli, smart phone apps are being used to map sexual harassment and report sexual assault. My...
Education is not a skills checklist
“Education is the sum of what students teach each other in between lectures and seminars. You sit in each...
My snapshots of Tahrir
posted on: Dec 26, 2011 | author: admin
I spent the last week soaking up the sun and atmosphere in Cairo. Traditionally nicknamed ‘the city of a 1000 minarets’, in recent times...
Al Ghazali: 900 Years Later and Still Relevan...
posted on: Dec 25, 2011 | author: admin
First published in the Huffington Post on 19 December 2011. Exactly 900 years ago today, on Dec. 19, 1111, the world bid a sad farewell to one of its...
When Radio Becomes Personal
posted on: Dec 12, 2011 | author: admin
The Twitter generation. That’s what they are calling us nowadays. If you still think it’s the Facebook generation – apparently it’s...
Computers that read our minds
posted on: Dec 9, 2011 | author: admin
Can computers ever understand how we feel? Can they recognise our emotional states and respond tactfully to our moods? Can they express emotions...
Advert of Pope kissing Al Azhar imam: #Massiv...
posted on: Nov 18, 2011 | author: admin
Either I’m in a disturbing dream, a bit dizzy or someone’s telling a really bad joke. Close enough. The Italian clothing firm, Benetton, recently...
Sarajevo: Land of Blood and Honey
posted on: Oct 29, 2011 | author: admin
Sitting in the courtyard of one of Sarajevo’s most fabulous Ottoman-styled mosques, the silhouette of the Gazi Husrev-Beg minarets spread across...