modern times
present times
modern world
contemporary world

All these books were about the contemporary Arab world as well.

In the 1990s it's a symbol of the contemporary world.

It also raises questions about the role of literature in the contemporary world.

It is adequate with the needs of the contemporary world.

Recent performances often set the play in the contemporary world.

But we have to live in the contemporary world because it's the only one we've got.

Compromise, after all, is what makes the contemporary world go round.

It seemed impossible that such things could happen in the contemporary world.

It does not reduce the play to the contemporary world.

We are better prepared to live and act in the contemporary world.