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By: Roya El Media - Lojain Borhan – Inspired by the book “The Cold War and the Policy of Brinkmanship” by Dr. Fatin Ahmed Farid Ali The Cold War was not a conventional war fought on battlefields, but rather a prolonged period of political, military, and ideological rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, lasting from the mid-1940s until the early 1990s. It was a struggle for influence over the international order, where both superpowers sought to expand their spheres of control without engaging in direct large-scale combat. Central to this tense global climate was the policy of brinkmanship — a strategic approach in which nations pushed dangerous confrontations to the edge of open conflict, believing that demonstrating readiness to go to war would compel the opponent to back down. I chose to write this article to shed light on how brinkmanship influenced the course of the Cold War and shaped modern international relations. By revisiting this period, I aim to help rea...

By Roya El Media - Lojain Borhan On May 20, 2021 , during a quiet moment in class, my English teacher handed me a book — A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce . She gave it to me as a reminder — a reminder of something she saw in me before I fully saw it in myself: a passion for writing. That day, between the lines of a modernist novel and the hum of the classroom, she introduced me to something far greater than just a book — she introduced me to myself as a storyteller. At the time, I didn’t realize I was holding one of the most revolutionary works of the 20th century — a novel that would echo through my creative path, challenge my ideas about identity, and stir something deep in my artistic soul. In the ever-expanding gallery of literary masterpieces, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man remains a bold and complex self-portrait — one that does not seek admiration but rather introspection. First published in 1916, the novel is both a deeply personal coming-of-...