I often tell my students that there is not a single question in life that cannot be asked or debated, then accepted or discarded by the human mind. I learned that many years ago as a student at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Today, the weekly question at the forum of The Washington Post is about prostitution and whether it should be legalized. I am asked to speak my point of view on Syria. By no means do I support the act of prostitution, nor do I think, however, that it can be eliminated. It is the oldest surviving “profession” in the world and outlawing it will only make it flourish in the Arab underground.

Continue »