Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade ... this realm and the interplay between different pens, nibs, papers, and inks emerges. Each choice is personal.

Sameer Butt is a filmmaker and writer whose work has also appeared in the Independent and the Des Moines Register.

More than anything else, he was a thorn in the flesh to most governments of his time. If the English media had Lasantha Wickremathuge, the Sinhala media had Victor Ivan Journalist Victor Ivan is ...