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English has achieved prime status by becoming the most widely spoken language in the world – if one disregards proficiency – ahead of Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. English is…
You can't understand the Cambridge Analytica scandal until you understand what its parent company does.
"The Gulf War Did Not Take Place". This audacious claim was made by the…
The business innovation author and speaker on 'onlyness' and how to unlock our individual and collective capacities.
As a former executive at Apple and Autodesk, and consultant…
In a world that is dominated by money, as the only universal means of exchange, how would our democracies, economies and societies look like if values were a central part of our…
I’ve just been reading the UK Labour Party’s Green Paper on International Development (out this week). ‘Green Papers’ are not about the colour (this one is actually red), but ‘…
Why agency and privacy matter for refugee communities.
Ahmed and the Internet
Ahmed fled Daraa in Syria nearly two years ago. He registered as a refugee in Jordan, but the same…
The Middle East is heating up again, in part due to President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The Trump administration has also incited upset with its…
TNI today presents its Atlas of Utopias (click here to see the website), part of the Transformative Cities initiative, sharing 32 stories of radical transformation…
Europe and Iran: The Nuclear Deal and Beyond by Cornelius Adebahr. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017. 186 pp, £105 hardcover 9781138201040
Reviewed by Anoush Ehteshami
The…
Sometime this summer, residents of Cape Town, South Africa, are expecting ‘Day Zero’ – the day when almost all the taps in the city will run dry. On that day, its 4 million…