The Jewish Question

When I was in school history was my favorite subject. Nowadays, I still get the same excitement as when I was a kid when I learn something new about some culture or a new piece of history. Understanding both history and culture is the key to understanding who we were and what we will become. Learning history teaches us why some cultures do things different than other cultures. By knowing about a culture’s or a nation’s history we can connect the dots and learn more about it....

Arrested in April of this year, UAE blogger Ahmed Mansour along with economics professor Nasser bin Ghaith, and activists Fahad Salim Dalk, Hassan Ali al-Khamis and Ahmed Abdul Khaleq have been sentenced to 2 to 3 years in prison.

They have been on trial for the past six months on charges of insulting the UAE’s rulers and endangering national security....

Tawasul news agency announced on Facebook the imminent issue/arrival of the newly minted Libyan currency of a which I'm publishing a photo below taken from their website.

In my humble opinion and my knowledge of economics is limited to non-existent, a new currency is not the top priority in Libya. If true the new money looks nice but we should not be wasting money on it we could have survived with the old Libyan notes, even the ones with Gaddafi's face on and thank God it was only the One Dinar currency and more recently the 50 Dinar currency which I actually rarely saw since it came to the market a year or so ago....