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Dante’s Damnation and Dostoevsky’s Desolation: Literary Censorship in Kuwait
For the overwhelming majority of banned books, it takes only the vaguest understanding of their premises to guess why they were banned....
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Nov 25, 20183 min read


Behind the Curtains of the Gulf’s Domestic Help Industry
First published by the BBC in 2017, a video showing a young woman clinging for her life before falling from a seventh-floor window of a...
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Oct 17, 20184 min read


The Politics of Sovereign Wealth
It is a question that has long been asked in America, particularly after the handling of firms after the 2008 crisis, and most pressingly...
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Nov 12, 20133 min read
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