Alexander C. Kaufman

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Alexander C. Kaufman is a reporter at the International Business Times covering companies, retail and media. He joined in May 2013. Previously, he was an editor of Mediabistro's FishbowlNY site and a media reporter at TheWrap in Los Angeles. Before that, he wrote about crime and city affairs at the Boston Globe. He studied political communication at Emerson College, where he served as the editor-in-chief of the Berkeley Beacon, overseeing the design and launch of a first-of-its-kind HTML5 website, one of the first newspapers in the world to do so. He got his start as a journalist at 15, writing for the Long-Islander, a weekly founded by poet Walt Whitman. When he has downtime, he collects photos of German Chancellor Angela Merkel frowning on this Tumblr. 

Kaufman can be reached at: a.kaufman@ibtimes.com | 646-484-7504 

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We Should Boycott Dubai Until It Revises Its Rape Laws

Tourists should avoid Dubai until it passes new laws to protect women who report being raped.The city’s glitzy hotels and luxury retailers create a veneer of modernity over the desert city, nestled on the shores of the United Arab Emirates. In many ways, Dubai can count itself among the world’s international centers of commerce -- alongside London, New York and Hong Kong. But like the backwoods cast of CBS’s 1960s hit “The Beverly Hillbillies,” newfound oil wealth can put you in league with the global elite before you catch up with its social mores.In the UAE, as in some other countries that use Islamic law, a woman can only help convict the man who rapes her if the accused confesses or four adult men must testify as witnesses.

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