In the nine-year course of writing this book, I have become certain of one thing: that women cannot be free of male dominance without challenging the men of one's own ethnic group and destroying their authority.
The moment these views are allowed to be addressed in a public forum, where their logical contradictions are exposed and their inconsistencies highlighted, the less their proponents become certain of their infallibility, and the more receptive to alternatives they end up being.
I became certain of who I am from this man through my own experience.
It was not until I had become 10 years old and had visited Al Husn with my uncle that I became certain of exactly what I wanted to do.
When he was born I became certain of two things: first, I never wanted to be away from him and; second, after watching my wife give birth, the idea that men and women are equal is an absurdity.
One thing I became certain of while writing that piece, no matter how you look at it, is that Hood by Air is forging some kind of new space in menswear that challenges gender and racial conventions to a greater extent and in a more explicit way than we've seen before.
So-called adult stem cells are stuck in the middle, able to become certain types of cells but not others.
