Minarets? No thanks, we’re Swiss! Written for the Huffington Post Dec 1st 2009

This article can be found at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hisham-wyne/minarets-no-thanks-were-s_b_374945.html 57.7 percent of Swiss citizens have voted to disallow the building of minarets. Minarets are those stern cylindrical structures intrinsic to Islamic architecture, and they are usually attached to mosques — places of worship where Muslims commune with Allah, and presumably complain about Swiss intolerance. Actually, a correction. [...]

Minus One, Two or Three: Pak Politics is Business Unusual – Written for the Huffington Post September 6th 2009

This article can be found at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hisham-wyne/minus-one-two-or-three-pa_b_278465.html Perhaps it’s the advent of the hot, humid summer. Perhaps a function of excessive water-logging perpetuated by the seasonal monsoons. Or maybe just a collective hallucination engendered by ad nauseum power cuts reducing daily life to a staccato of stills. But there have been disquieting murmurs doing the [...]