Ces trois scènes se situent au premier chapitre du roman "L'île Jhelum". Le contenu du roman relate l'histoire d'une famille musulmane du Cachemire Indien dont l'ancêtre est le descendant d'un cousin paternel de l'empereur Mongole Musulman Taymourlank. La famille Dekhiran Khan a fondé en 2050 un empire technologique à partir d'une nouvelle génération d'ordinateur. Les deux cadets de la famille, Thoraya et Sadek après une formation universitaire Américaine vont devenir…

As a Man Thinketh  (1902) Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes,And Man is Mind, and evermore he takesThe tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills,Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:—He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass:Environment is but his looking-glass. 1 Foreword 2  Thought and Character 3  Effect of Thought on Circumstances 4  Effect of Thought on Health and the Body 5  Thought and Purpose 6  The Thought-Factor in Achievement 7  Visions and Ideals 8  Serenity Foreword THIS little volume (the result of meditation and experience) is not intended as an exhaustive treatise…

Many of the United States’ diplomatic difficulties with Iran began with the 1979-81 Iranian Hostage Crisis. The crisis resulted in a number of complex challenges for the Carter administration. On November 4, 1979, militant Iranian students stormed the American Embassy in Tehran, taking hostage the embassy staff in a gesture of protest against American  foreign policy. The political nature of a revolutionary Iran greatly prolonged the crisis and forced President Jimmy Carter to explore many different avenues for the hostages’ release. International and domestic concerns further complicated any possible response from the Carter administration. Carter initially sought to secure the release of the hostages…

  Human experimentation was a core feature of the CIA’s torture program. The experimental nature of the interrogation and detention techniques is clearly evident in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s executive summary of its investigative report, despite redactions (insisted upon by the CIA) to obfuscate the locations of these laboratories of cruel science and the identities of perpetrators. At the helm of this human experimentation project were two psychologists hired by the CIA, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen. They designed interrogation and detention protocols that they and others applied to people imprisoned in the agency’s secret “black sites.” In its response…

A few Americans are held hostage by al-Qaeda. The rest of us are held hostage by the U.S. overreliance on military force.   The United States recently conducted a raid in Yemen to free an American hostage. The raid failed. The Navy Seals killed 11 people, including a 10-year-old boy. The kidnappers executed the hostage, journalist Luke Somers. They also killed South African teacher Pierre Korkie. The South African was on the verge of being released as part of a hostage negotiation that the US government didn’t know about. Somers, meanwhile, was not the subject of any negotiations. The United…