Philip K. Dick: the novelist whose ideas inspired a sci-fi generation

The man whose book gave birth to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner posed searching, early questions on identity, consciousness, reality, and memory. In the age of AI, they are more important than ever.

Khalid al-Ghannami

Hezbollah’s Refugee Quandary

[caption id="attachment_55254014" align="aligncenter" width="900"] MAJDAL ANJAR, LEBANON - NOVEMBER 12: A displaced Syrian child is viewedin a makeshift camp for Syrian refugees only miles from the…

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Prisons and Radicalisation

by Yasmine El-Geressi Fears that Westminster terroristKhalid Masood - the 52-year-old Muslim convert who killedfive people and injured 50 in an attack on London's Westminster Bridge- was…

Yasmine El Geressi

Book Reviews: Managing the Migrant Crisis

by Elizabeth Collett The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First-Century Refugee Crisis. Patrick Kingsley. Liveright, 2017. 368pp. Cast Away: True Stories of Survival From Europe’s Refugee…

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Saudi Arabia’s Cultural Shake-Up

[caption id="attachment_55253544" align="aligncenter" width="4252"] Saudi singer Mohammed Abdu performs during a concert in Riyadh on March 9, 2017.Saudi Arabia's "Paul McCartney" took to the stage…

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