By El-Hajj Sir Richard Francis Burton, in his translation notes on 1001 Arabian Nights. “THE next point I propose to consider is the position of womanhood in The Nights, so curiously at variance with the stock ideas concerning the Moslem home and domestic policy still prevalent, not only in England, but throughout Europe. Many readers […]
Politics
History, Slavery, and Pecking Orders
About a year ago I was standing, hanging on the corner, with a friend, notorious thinker and man about town, Khalid Bey, when he threw out a provocative little line: “Kemal, there are two, and only two, types of people; Masters, and Slaves. Whether this is for better or for worse is irrelevant, it’s a […]
Tibet, Afghanistan: The Empires Russia, America, and China – Musings on a new century.
“I shall go far and far into the North, playing the Great Game….” – Kim, by R. Kipling Once, during the Cold War, the Soviet ambassador to Pakistan gave Pakistan’s president a slender leather bound book. When asked what it was the Soviet answered that it was a statement of the USSR’s foreign policy. The […]
Protected: 30 stone Bint – Is this a possible argument for eugenics?
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