Word: taboo
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...surgeon specializing in forensic medicine, but today she runs a growing practice as the only sexologist in Egypt, and probably the entire Arab world - which she reaches via two discussion shows on satellite TV. Veiled and pious, Kotb talks frankly to mostly conservative Arab men and women about such taboo subjects as how to make love, how to kindle desire and why regular sex is so important for a healthy marriage...
...Middle East, so they think they know how to throw a wedding in style. ("Our dresses show a little skin," said the owner of bridal shop called "Lebanon.") Kurds are starting agree: many now get married in Ankawa wedding halls, where among other things that would be taboo in Erbil, men and women are allowed to dance together...
Shaye J. D. Cohen, who teaches the course, said in an e-mailed statement that its popularity may come from the taboo attitude towards its subject in secondary schools...
Some of Al Aswany's popularity undoubtedly stems from his delight in smashing social taboos. Apart from the barbs against Egypt's regime that flow from his characters' mouths, the author has expressed understanding, if not actual sympathy, for Islamic extremists, and has written explicitly about issues like homosexuality and abortion that had long been taboo in Arabic literature. One of the main characters in Yacoubian, for example, is the gay editor of a Cairo newspaper, who uses money to seduce a married Egyptian soldier desperate to feed his family. In Chicago, a female character visits a sex shop...
...decades, the Titanic was a taboo topic", says Una Reilly, chairman of the Belfast Titanic Society, during a tour of the TSP site. "There was almost a sense of shame that it had been built here." But Reilly, whose great-grandfather worked as a cabinetmaker on the Titanic, is convinced that this ghost from Belfast's past is the perfect vehicle for the city's future. "The Titanic was at the cutting edge of technology when she was built. That's the kind of innovation Belfast should be striving for today...