by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jan 18, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Today’s Sri Lanka is the ancient land of Serendip, which gave rise to the modern English word serendipity. Sri Lanka is still a stunningly beautiful island surrounded by white sand beaches that rise up through tropical forests into blue...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jul 30, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeThe myth holds that Pakistan’s I.S.I. (aka the Interservices Intelligence Agency) is on top of everything. Its generals are the puppeteers who control Pakistan.If so, the infallible ISI has failed, miserably, at least twice in the last few...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jul 21, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeIf the documents recently made public on Wikileaks are authentic, and they appear to be, then Saudi Arabia seems to be doing a more ambitious job of public diplomacy than the U.S., its originator and once thoroughly competent practitioner. ...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | May 13, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia L. SharpeNew York Times headlines notwithstanding, King Salman of Saudi Arabia won’t be merely “snubbing” President Obama when he fails to attend a summit meeting in Washington. He can’t afford to play petty games. He needs U.S. weapons, and he...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Mar 24, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeGiven his complex parentage (Indian Sikh and Pakistani Muslim) and his own career as a writer in English, both fiction and non-fiction, the latter for British or American publications, it’s hard to understand how Aatish Taseer could have written...
