And in that sense of trying to get you out of your normal orbit, and to try to get you to pay attention to a story about someone who's given up smoking for the month of Ramadan, she has to know something about a global audience.

Along with considerable progress in domestic adjustment in most countries, this has increased investor perceptions of the creditworthiness of the debtor economies.

And in that sense of trying to get you out of your normal orbit, and to try to get you to pay attention to a story about someone who's given up smoking for the month of Ramadan, she has to know something about a global audience.

This is especially true for the Middle East. But travel there nowadays can be extremely disorienting indeed, developments that were impossible to contemplate just a few months ago are becoming reality.