BY RICK DAVIS
In some sort of ideal world, language would not be a barrier to cultural understanding. Literature, scholarship, sacred texts, jokes, journalism, nuance and even subtext would flow across actual and virtual borders. Difference would be celebrated without being flattened out. Access to rhythms of words (and life), patterns of thought, hopes, dreams, and [...]
BY PETER MANDAVILLE
This is real life, engraved on my pages: families dying from starvation whilst the government’s worried about immigration.
— Blind Alphabetz, ‘Concrete Landz’
Like everyone today, Young British Muslims are carrying around iPods full of the latest tunes. Despite the recent phenomenal popularity of a pop-oriented variant of nasheed devotional music—a key artist would be [...]
BY CATHERINE DURNELL CRAMPTON
Recent advances in telecommunication and information technologies have made it feasible for people to work together daily on highly interdependent projects despite being located in different countries. Competitive pressures in a global economy have made such work arrangements not only possible, but often necessary. Using internationally distributed work teams allows businesses to [...]