Books
Best-selling Kuwaiti Author Bothayna al-Essa
Best-selling Kuwaiti author Bothayna al-Essa was recently part of this year’s Emirates LitFest as well as the AUK Biennial LitFest: In the second installment of ……Read More
Lifestyle
Books
Book review: Seema Sonik Alimchand’s Deedara aka Dara Singh!
First thing first – Author Seema Sonik Alimchand does a much better job with Deedara aka Dara Singh! when compared to her first book on ……Read More
Immigration
Is the H-4 Rule on Its Way Out?
An update is in order on the H-4 (spouses and children under 21 years of age of H-1B visa holders) work authorization case: Save Jobs ……Read More
Immigration
Chinese Americans, Again, Fleece Mainland Chinese in $50M EB-5 Scam
With the main part of the EB-5 (immigrant investor) program about to sunset on April 28, its defenders are facing yet another scam, at the ……Read More
Books
On Taha Hussein’s Newly Re-discovered Novel, ‘The Sheikh’s Sermon’
At the end of March, there was a flurry of discussion (here, here, here) about a rediscovered novel by the “Dean of Arabic Letters,” Egyptian novelist ……Read More
Daily Life
Suffering From Wage Gap Paranoia? You’re Not Alone
It’s 2017, and yet women are still fighting for equality. Data suggests it will take until 2152 to close the gender wage gap, but it ……Read More