Book Review: Jokha Alharthi’s ‘Bitter Orange Tree’ reflects on oil and the lives of Oman’s womenRadhika HolmstromThe book, first published in Arabic in 2016, revisits the dramatic changes, particularly in the lives of women, that the discovery of oil precipitated
Terra Luna crash: When the crypto casino crumbled The Terra-Luna crash in May made it clear that cryptocurrency is inherently volatile and prone to systemic crises. Yet, as long as there is excess li
SlideshowSri Lanka: The stranded stateSri Lanka has faced a series of misfortunes—the wrath of a 26-year-long civil war, a devastating tsunami, the Easter bombings of 2018, the spread of
