The Big Picture

"Too much blood in your country, sister" a taxi driver in Muscat said to me. I wondered how right he was...

My anxiety attacks were so severe that I feared I would die - instead I learned how to live.

Akhtar was a huge part of our sense of cultural belonging. He represented comedians who stand up to the system.

When I met Greg Mortenson I was inspired. I have been to the schools he has built and seen the good he has done.

"Don't worry, it's all an act," he told me. Instantly he became, for me, the coolest human being alive.

A new pay raise favours the top tier staff and does little good to the majority of the employees.

Do your part to save the earth: simple things can help. Start by turning off the lights!

Iqbal’s vision of a modern Muslim comfortable with science, evolution, rationality and democracy is dead.

Each one of us has a purpose that God wants us to fulfil but we have to find it ourselves.

It's really hard to argue when most women seem genetically predisposed to believe they are always right.