Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To Enas Taleb, the headline felt like a spiteful punch line. "Why women are fatter than men in the Arab world," it read in bold, above a photograph of the Iraqi actress waving onstage at an arts festival.

Iraqi actress Enas Taleb said she is suing British magazine The Economist for using a photo of her to illustrate a controversial article on obesity among Arab women.

The article, headlined "Why Women Are Fatter Than Men in the Arab World", was published last month with a picture of Taleb performing at Iraq's Babylon International Festival.

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world," Ludwig Wittgenstein famously said.

Based on that one might posit the syllogism that our understanding of our world is directly linked to the words we use to describe things.

The trial of four men accused of torturing an Egyptian bakery worker in 2012 on an island near the Greek capital, began on Tuesday in Piraeus after being postponed four times.

Waleed Taleb was 29 years old when he was found by passers-by on the island of Salamina, off the coast of Piraeus, collapsed by a tree, with a chain tied around his neck and brutally beaten.