Where? What? When? How? Next? Shedding light onto the most recent frequently asked questions from my closest friends to every other person…
Being temporarily back in NYC for the last two weeks I have had to accept (again!) that I remain and will remain childishly enamored with the City, not to mention I miss the amazing people I call my friends and every nook and cranny of my neighborhood. Frankly, I don’t think I can ever “leave” NYC–it’s a lost cause; I am obsessed with the city. However, Africa and Asia are not a phase, an escape, or motivated by a desire to “save” whatever is going on there–much work needs to be done in the ... read more »
Where? What? When? How? Next? Shedding light onto the most recent frequently asked questions from my closest friends to every other person…
In 2005 before I began law school we were required to finish the 800 page assigned reading, A Simple Justice, by a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist. It is the story of Brown v. Board of Education. Yes, 800 pages long! Some read it, some did not. Some did not want to admit they read it and enjoyed it! I couldn’t put it down—if history was written with this much diligence and passionate research I would have majored in History instead of English in college! I bring this up to share a quote by Charles Houston ... read more »
Tagged law
Where? What? When? How? Next? Shedding light onto the most recent frequently asked questions from my closest friends to every other person…
It was not about the blue or the red pill. I had swallowed the harder one—which ever damn pill clears the film on what we call our reality—a long time ago. Enlightenment does not mean transcending or escaping into another world. The human structure in which we have to carry our spiritual experience remains the same. Having left the matrix after my law clerkship was over, I had done the unfathomable: I had moved home! My lifeboat hanging by a string on the only safe harbor I knew to begin carving out a lifestyle ... read more »
Tagged life
Where? What? When? How? Next? Shedding light onto the most recent frequently asked questions from my closest friends to every other person…
When my brother Zain and I were younger (five and seven respectively), still living in the Middle East, my father told us this true story of a man named Tariq Bin Ziyad. We would lie on top of the roof of our house, connecting stardust sparkles in the sky covering the vast Arabian Desert, and listen to our father tell yet another story, never knowing if the story about the mermaid that sang underwater for her long lost lover was part of history or myth. All stories are real when you are that ... read more »
The following is a transcript of a lecture given by George Soros at Central European University on October 29, 2009.
Statements that deeply resonated with me are in bold if you don’t care to read through the entire thing. Mr. Soros is an inspiration and simply brilliant.
Thanks, ~a.q.s.
Today I want to explore the conflict between capitalism and open society, market values and social values. I am going to approach the subject indirectly, by first introducing a phenomenon that has attracted my attention only recently, but has assumed such importance in my thinking that I could almost call it the fourth pillar of my conceptual framework. That phenomenon is the principal-agent ... read more »
Tagged economics, law, politics
