author - oman observer

Ten people are sitting together when one declares: “Prices are outrageous.” The other nine nod. They appear to agree. Yet one is thinking about the cost of rice, another about the rent, and a...

Everything around us changes: the history we tell, the past we remember and even our conception of time as the neutral vessel in which events unfold. To understand these transformations, we must...

“The conditions of the world and of nations do not remain upon a single course. They vary with days and ages, passing from one state to another.” ~ Ibn Khaldun Countries are racing to deploy...

When Friedrich Nietzsche wrote of Redlichkeit, he did not mean honesty in the ordinary moral sense. He meant something rarer and far more demanding: intellectual integrity — the willingness to...