Redrawing the Middle East

Ralph Peters solution to Mideast

I’ve been trying to get my mind around a 2006 article in the Armed Forces Journal that I recently came across. The post, entitled Blood Borders: How a better Middle East would look by Ralph Peters, purports to redraw the Middle East along what the author calls organic borders. As someone who’s often stared at [...]

London – What’s the stone for?

Eid mubarak.  There’s a mosque about a block away from my flat here in north London so I decided to go there for Eid prayers this morning.  It’s a nice place, one big prayer room, expansive and ornately decorated, divided in half down the middle by a semi-opaque white barrier.  The kiblah is towards a [...]