Tag: conspiracy

On conspiracy theories—عن نظريات المؤامرة

I should clarify that the suggestion articulated in my previous post that the regime may have had some hand in yesterday’s bombing is total conjecture, suspicious though it is that it falls on the same day that one of Cairo’s newest dailies, El-Shorouk carried the (perhaps-premature) headline “Repeal of Emergency …

Can Ug99 Speak?—هل تقدر أوغندا٩٩ على الكلام؟

This article was originally commissioned for Is Greater Than. It follows a wheat plant disease, Ug99, through the constellation of human and non-human actors that have turned a decades-old and once-regional fungus into a major threat to global wheat production. The place that most people in the West think of …