Sam Cult

Jokes have long been perceived as a good manner to break the ice among individuals, stamp social gatherings with a jovial touch, and render multi-background peoples closer to each others. Being witty was nothing less than a grace and a charming trait pretty much desired by women. Nevertheless, such social perception, which was well reputed during the 1980s and 1990s, is absolutely not a...

The contemporary world was attracted to the fables of the Orient since the early colonisation movement if not before. Stories like "One Thousand and One Night" has nested in the minds of dreamers from diverse human races and has haunted or even poisoned their fantasies ever after. Sheikhdoms, harems, the rule of the desert rather than the jungle, and the conqueror...

Words of commiseration lose their meaning when scourges turn into a monthly - sometimes weekly - bread. Tears of sorrow dry when targeted killings cripple furthermore the aggressor yet fail to intimidate the breeze of revolution. In fact, death could rejuvenate hope, resuscitate purposefulness and perseverance, a...

The economic crisis, which turned repellant between 2007 and 2008, did not only provoke the collapse of large financial institutions and the bailout of renown banks by national governments, but rather stood as a ravening scourge threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of citizens across the globe. While member states in the European Union (EU), such ...

The breakdown of the worldwide economic system, which traits emerged during the last decade of the twentieth century, and the protracted terrorism acts that pockmarked the post Soviet era pushed wealthy states to concert efforts in blocking the flow of migrants with all possible means. As the poor cluster lost hope in international humanitarian organisations, more breadwinners decided to pay their savings for a ris...

The spokesperson of the Saudi Ministry of Interior had warned, on Thursday 24 October 2013, from calls for congregations and marches against the de facto driving ban on females, and denounced such activities as "disturbing the public peace and opening venues to sedition, which only serve the senseless, the ill-intentioned, intruders, and opportunity hunters".

The above-mentioned long list of accus...

Most of us are so attached to their computers, printers, cellphones, lunch paper wraps or napkins, and daily-use cosmetics that we can not function in case any of the items on the list ran out of stock.

A month ago, I received a mail from the boss' secretary headlined "not entitled for a vacation yet". The triage scheme I adopt during shift hours is very simple; this is what I thought at least....

Everyday, I pass by a nearby supermarket on my way home from office to collect my second meal of the day. I earned this habit when I was on internship in Orlando some twelve years ago. At that time, they had a Deli shop at Westgate Villas, a touristic upper-scale compound less than one kilometre distant from SeaWorld. I was obsessed by the owner's daughter, a Puerto Rican with the perfect b...