What’s education without sex?

When cyclone Gonu hit Oman and parts of the Emirates, it only reconfirmed many scientists’ views that such a ferocious storm so close to the Arabian Peninsula was yet another tidbit of evidence that the earth’s surface is getting warmer due to high carbon emissions. But in many parts of the Arab world — as in Middle America for that matter — such phenomena are often explained away as merely another example of God’s wrath on mankind. Gonu “landed” as many students in the UAE were in the middle of their final exams, but Gonu as an act of God rather than the result of petrol guzzling and an over-reliance on CFCs is probably a theory Emirati students are used to. For there are three main taboos in local education: religion, sex, and alcohol. What religious symbols students are exposed to in their textbooks are rigorously controlled and the mere