One of the key differences between an ordinary—or even a good—novel and a great one is scope. The former often confines itself to a narrow view of life, focusing solely on immediate events, while the latter broadens its perspective, peeling
If you’re writing nonfiction and need sources, you can’t write your book just anywhere. You need your sources close at hand. Writing a novel, on the other hand, can be done anywhere—but only on one condition: it must be a
A mosque in Erbil, Kurdistan, was demolished on the grounds of lacking a license. Meanwhile, the same government inaugurated a new church in Erbil. The church belongs to the Adventist denomination, which, as far as I know, has no Kurdish
ISIS’s brutality contradicts many teachings of Islam. For instance, the Prophet Muhammad said, “God is kind and He loves kindness. He rewards for kindness what He does not reward for violence or anything other than kindness.”
To remind Mr. Obama: when Dr. Muhammad Mursi, an Islamic leader, was the president of Egypt, Mr. Obama remarked that democracy is not only about elections. Let us also remind him that Mursi’s presidency was not based on a single