The Nightingale

You have the choice of not drowning in a deluge of data and dispersion.

Choose a medium that does not consume you.

Choose to read a book.

Don't worry. I won't be asking you to throw away your tv. That would be naive. And naivety is what the author Neil Postman says is what we are all guilty of with regards tv. To understand tv and to...

The conception of a reading crisis is a sublimation of moral panic against the rise of new media and the concomitant contest of values this has brought about. Consequently, the meaning of reading has been obscured amidst impassioned debate, even...

The main theme of the Book of Illumination is 'desisting from selfish calculation'. The rather awkward phrase, 'selfish calculation' is a translation of the concept of administrating/arranging for one's self.Shaykh Ibn Ata Illah al-Iskandari talks about the ego's disposition for...