A fire broke out just after 1 a.m. at the 87-storey Torch Tower, morer than 1 100 foot tall ( 335 meters), the World’s tallest residential skyscraper located in an upscale waterfront district in Dubai’s Marina, heavily populated by expatriates from around the world. Firefighters successfully put out a blaze that erupted the high-rise, forcing…
The eminent late sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, a looming intellectual, often paroxysmal, who saw and analysed the great socio-political changes right up to his death in early 2017. His analysis called “Liquid modernity”, included poverty, inequality to migration, fear of the other and decline of nation state, the outcast generation, on building fortresses under siege, o…
