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Dr Hesham Sadek is pioneering research that could change the face of medicine. If his work in cardiac regeneration succeeds, he may one day end heart disease altogether, sparing that valiant, thumping organ its often fatal toll.
Hiam Abbass, the Arab actress and director known for playing strong women from struggling widows to defiant mothers, seems an unlikely choice for Miuccia Prada's playful younger label. We explore this intriguing fashion collaboration.
Hard, handsome and remote, with shocks of white in his well-groomed dark hair, Marko is a man few know intimately. As his assistant takes notes, a rare flicker of unease betrays his composure.
In Beirut our writer met a man eight months into walking from England to Jerusalem, pausing after the length of Turkey and Lebanon. No fair-weather traveller, he had worn the journey remarkably well.
Since the revolution, Egyptian artists have claimed the streets as well as the studios. Nowhere is this clearer than Mohammed Mahmoud street near Tahrir Square, where once-bare walls are now scarcely left unpainted.
Decamping to the mountains, our writer relished finding the International Herald Tribune at the Librairie Michel in Bikfaya, its yellow weekend strip promising hours of mind-twisting joy. Then, one week later, a grey cloud descended.
Banksy's Flower Girl, in which a child eyes an emerging security camera, heads to auction. We trace urban art's rise to the saleroom, a trend Bonhams helped ignite with its dedicated sale in 2008.
He rejects the label combat photographer, for he has no interest in fighting or killing. Instead he documents the effects of war on ordinary people, hoping his images add to a wider conversation.
Author and journalist Rose George explains how a coffee-table book on excreta at COLORS magazine sparked a deeper fascination with sewage, toilets and waste, and the simple question she set out to answer.
Rachida Dati is immediately imposing: self-confident, strikingly handsome and risen from an Arab workman's daughter to one of France's most senior politicians. We meet the former justice minister at her Left Bank office.
The Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician and psychiatrist, Nawal El Saadawi, has braved prison, exile and death threats in her fight against female oppression. It’s a fight she wants to see through to the end. The first thing Nawal El Saadawi does when we speak for the first ti…
Over cardamom coffee, Salma tells her grandchildren a story they know all too well, of land once made of sand-fields and stardust, now given over to glass-fields and car-dust beyond the window.