NYT's journalist Alan Riding wrote : "In Culture in America, a 622-page tome weighty with information, Martel challenges the conventional view in France that (French) culture financed and organized by the government is entirely good and that (American) culture shaped by market forces is necessarily bad".
He wrote an article for the journal Nyt Magasin for Naturvidenskaberne in 1899 where he described what he had observed, amongst other things the discovery of Utricularia ochroleuca in Northern Norway.
Sekhon has been a part of the Outreach programmes at NYT for many years, taking drama to urban youth centres, directing short films and most memorably shooting a film "The Induction" with the inmates at Feltham Young Offenders Institute HM Prison Feltham.
After it came out that then NYT's Jerusalem bureau chief, Ethan Bronner, had son enlisted in the Israeli Defense Forces, and that the NYT refused to sack him after this was made public, El-Khodary decided to leave her NYT post.
She grew up doing youth theatre in Nottingam (Acorn/NYT) before landing an Equity contract at the Nottingham Playhouse.