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What happens in a country when politics breaks down?

by Ethan Casey | Jan 5, 2019 | Alive and Well in Pakistan, Pakistan, USA

There are many case studies from history worldwide to answer that question. I lived in Bangkok from 1993 to 1998 and traveled extensively around Asia during those years as a working freelance foreign correspondent published in The Globe and Mail, the Boston Globe, the...

Mohsin Hamid rises to the occasion

by Ethan Casey | Jun 9, 2017 | Alive and Well in Pakistan, Ethan Casey, Pakistan

Mohsin Hamid’s second novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), gained the Pakistani writer a measure of well-earned global notoriety and indicated the scope of both his ambition and his ability. But, really, it was only a jumping-off point. Hamid has a great...

The trouble with Twitter

by Ethan Casey | May 3, 2017 | Alive and Well in Pakistan, Ethan Casey, Home Free

A few times in recent weeks I’ve found myself in tweet-exchanges that have descended quickly into intemperance and misunderstanding. In all cases, I could be accused with some justice of being overly sensitive and hair-trigger in my emotional and rhetorical...

Restricting Khizr Khan’s Travel Restricts Everyone’s Citizenship

by Ethan Casey | Mar 7, 2017 | Alive and Well in Pakistan, Pakistan, USA

There’s so much being forced on our attention right now that you (or I) might easily have missed the news about Khizr Khan having to cancel his trip to Toronto to give a speech. And so much that is happening is unprecedented and astonishing that you (or I) might have...

Is it terrorism or a mass shooting?

by Ethan Casey | Jun 12, 2016 | Alive and Well in Pakistan, Ethan Casey, Home Free

The appalling mass shooting in Orlando early Sunday morning rips back open the festering confusion about what exactly is going on in today’s world and today’s America. Quickly the gunman was identified as 29-year-old Omar Mateen, an American of Afghan...
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