Nuzzled between pads and tampons in drug stores across South East Asia, a unique item is for sale. Not quite feminine hygiene or aged incontinence, these throwaways create their own […]

Yosef Kuperwasser and Shalom Lipner have written an op-ed in this month’s Foreign Affairs arguing that the key issue over which development in the Israeli/Palestinian negotiations have been stalled is […]

I’ve never been much of a steakhouse girl, although, I’m not sure what one  would look like.   An Oktoberfest mädchen with faux antlers and no dirndl? In any case, navigating cavernous restaurants, […]

Matching usually has negative connotations. Think melding in with wallpaper. Or the Queen of England. Not stylish at all. And yet, in my time in Malaysia, my head has literally […]

I first started noticing them on the hands of friends, late for brunch, sheepishly dragging out their chairs and sliding into Sunday rendez-vous position. Or weekend marauders, young twenty-somethings with […]

Each night, in front of Kuala Lumpur’s iconic Petronas towers, a ritual takes place. Staggered syncopated techno beats, Sting’s Desert Rose, insinuate themselves into the cooled air, choreographing propulsion-powered jet […]

Dense green globules of tapioca bob in a thick mucus of teh tarik (pulled tea), stretched sky high by the arm of an experienced server to deliver a wide gush […]