Category: Social change

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Here is a quick crossword puzzle to test your image of the Arab woman today: Number one across: the Arab woman best known to the West today whose name is often associated with trouble. Number one down: one of the best known Arabic words in the English language referring to that part of the house allotted to females and also referring to the wives, concubines, or other females occupying the woman's sector of the house. The Answers: Leila Harem (Khaled)

A Puzzling New Breed of Arab Woman

Here is a quick crossword puzzle to test your image of the Arab woman today: Number one across: the Arab woman best known to the West today whose name is often associated with trouble. Number one down: one of the best known Arabic words in

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It’s a Revolution All Right

Rome   May 2, 1971   The disintegration of Pakistan. The collapse of a government in Turkey. Heightened rural violence in the Philippines. Is it mere coincidence that political explosions have followed spectacular advances in agricultural production in all three countries? From the perspective of

The long, slow sapping of our strength by under-investment has placed Britain's industrial future in jeopardy.

Scotland IV – Old Myths And New Myths

March 25, 1971 Scotland has problems of housing, unemployment and religious bitterness which make it a society torn by class and racial tensions…and the difference between social classes within the same nation may be as great as the differences which divide nations. An anglicized Scot

The Citadel and ruins of Susa; what appear to be eroded hills are actually great piles of debris and rubble - potsherds, human and animal bones, shaped stones and other archeological remains.

How Lonely Sits The City – Part I

A Survey in Two Parts of the Human Impact of Agricultural Development from Prehistoric to Contemporary Times as seen from the Village of Shush-Daniel on the Khuzestan Plain of Southwest Persia Contents   Part One: 10,000 to 640 B.C. – Bedouin. PartTwo: Le Temoin –

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A Pacific Summing-Up

Honolulu  December 7, 1970 Part I Ten thousand islands lie south and west of Hawaii in the world’s largest ocean. Pacific waters wash across a third of the globe, an area more than 20 times the size of the U.S. Mainland. The island area in