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Saudi National Basma Altwejri must be a formidable multitasker for she is both a programme analyst at the policy design and advocacy department of the King Khalid Foundation as well as a social entrepreneur who founded the ‘Pay It Forward’ social initiative in March 2016. Even so, she h…
In keeping with our Upswing theme, we gather the season's most compelling new releases, from aerial portraits of Lebanon to stories of reinvention, each capturing the spirit of rising stars and remarkable comebacks.
A curated shelf of essential reading, from Mo Amelia Teitelbaum's portrait of the 1920s Paris stylemakers to Suraiya Faroqhi's study of the Ottoman artisans and Austin Kleon's witty guide to becoming more creative.
Historian Lucy Worsley's trove of curious facts reveals when bedrooms first became private and why medieval people sometimes slept standing up. From the groaning chair to toilet paper, domestic history proves endlessly surprising.
Not long after her thirtieth birthday, on the heels of an ugly divorce, Elizabeth Gilbert traveled for a year, to Italy, India, and finally Indonesia. In Italy she wanted to explore the art of pleasure (pasta, wine, handsome men speaking a beautiful language); in India, devotion (waking at
George Hawi Besides being recognised as the late secretary general of the Lebanese Communist Party, assassinated politician George Hawi, was also in fact a promising poet. Subsequent to his death, his daughter compiled these hitherto unknown works in order to share his poems with the world