Selections from Arabic Literature

To celebrate UN World Arabic Day, the British Council’s Tony Calderbank picks out five works that offer unique insight into the Arab world’s culture and heritage. There’s a lot of news coming out of the Arab world these days, mainly grim stuff in the press or online, painting a depressing and very much one-sided picture of this vast geographical and culturally diverse area. If… Read More »

The Walkaway Wife Syndrome

For the past two decades, I have devoted myself to helping couples work out their differences in order to keep their marriages and families together. This marriage-saving passion is not based on religious beliefs, nor do I think that divorce is morally wrong. My divorce-busting bias is simply based on my firm conviction that the vast majority of problems that people are experiencing when they consider… Read More »

Three Philosophies of Life

In the beginning, there is only one philosophy of life.  For all authentic philosophy begins in wonder.  All three of the founders of philosophy, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, said that philosophy begins in wonder.  But there are three kinds of wonder: Philosophy not only begins in wonder (#1), it also proceeds by means of wonder (#2) and ends… Read More »