I have always lusted after a sepia-toned library with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and a sliding ladder. I fantasie about Tennessee Williams’ types of evenings involving rum on the porch. I long for balmy slightly sleepless nights...

Find what you love to do, what you’re good at and passionate about and then dedicate your entire life to working hard at it. I wil say it again. Work hard. I mean that. Even...

…I have decided that I shan’t sweat the small stuff. Sense and sensibility will, I assume, come in their own time. If indeed they ought to come. And in the meantime, I shall continue to...

So the fact tht anyone would ever suggest that Arab women are dominated and demeaned is really quite ludicrous. In this part of the world, She’s just Not That Into Him. We’re the ones who...

…to let the actions of a deluded dictator shape your very notions of what this nation was, is and will continue to be, is to give that dictator far more power than he ever stole...

I got a call froma cynical young American journalist…You know the sort. He’s lived in the Middle East for a little over five minutes so assumes he knows us natives well. I sip at a...

Having it all is just too much hassle. I’m not every-woman. I’m a working woman. And I’m not entirely sure I see the oint of being as dexterous in the kitchen as I am at...

…if I have a daughter I will tell her she can do anything, and I will mean it, because I have no other intention of informing her otherwise. As my mother did with me, and...

Even beyond the Middle East, the role of the independent women remains as warped as a Lewis Caroll novel. We may control $12 trillion of the world’s $184 trillion in annual consumer spending (I read...

…I discovered I’m having a girl. And I hae spent a good portion of the last few weeks thinking about the kind f woman I’d like to see her become and the lessons I’d like...

Please please read. Everything and anything. You may not remember all of it, you may not remember any of it But from the fairytailes…to the sweeping soaring classics I hope you will one day discover...