It is important to bring all these wonderful diverse stories from authors all around the world to the reach of Arabic readers.

My father last night tried to communicate a single message We keep hearing that Israel is after Hamas but WE are the targets here Civilians are the targets here, not Hamas.

If we can put those two together in a safe space, get them to work together, we can deliver public goods right now, or in extremely short supply.

صباح الخير While it is true that I have not been blogging about politics because of a simple reason and that is the presence of other blogs which are much better than mine and which have an audience and are able to express their messages in a way better and deeper than I would, news published in (Kuwaiti Arabic daily) Al Qabas (that the government is studying a proposal to monitor blogs) is not new at all!

And new hope in gene therapy has been developed because viruses like the adeno associated virus, which probably most of us around this room have, and it doesn't have any symptoms, which have been used in hundreds of patients to deliver genes into the brain or the body.