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When chemotherapy failed seven-year-old Emily, her doctors turned to a daring last resort: a re-engineered HIV retrovirus enlisted to attack her cancer cells. The risky alternative made the little girl sicker still before transforming everything.
Talking to Dr Jack Shaheen about the negative images of Arabs in American popular culture reveals stereotypes stretching back a century. Meet the man who singlehandedly set out to rewrite a people's portrayal on screen.
None of his friends wore one, nor did his circles demand it, yet our writer became an unlikely innovator. He confesses his enduring, stealthy obsession with the silk pocket square he simply cannot abandon.
With more national pavilions than ever and several private initiatives besides, the contemporary Arab world has never been better represented at the Venice Biennale. Nadine Khalil picks the works you should look out for.
Since 2009 Kickstarter has raised over 680 million dollars for so-called great ideas, letting anyone with a half-baked plan post a video and breathless text. Our writer surveys the platform's gloriously misguided marketing.
From company headquarters in Japan to a launch party in New York, our writer remains a committed Lexus fan. The entry-level IS C is spot on, yet the marque's bolder ambitions give him pause.
When it comes to boys and their toys, bragging rights matter, whether children battling at Top Trumps or grown men on their Sunday drive. As Doris Rowland once sharply observed, only the price differs.
Far from a failing, our writer argues, the breathless way we declare life's luxuries is precisely our aspirational charm. A villa becomes a VILLA, a dinner jacket a SMOking, each phrase carrying an invisible exclamation mark.
At fifty-six, Stanislas de Quercize is the new Frenchman steering Cartier, the world's largest luxury jeweller. We caught him at Art Dubai, the fair his maison sponsors, to discuss the house Edward VII once adored.
Fighting back is not always the wisest course, but should you choose to, three concepts are essential: Catch, Control, Neutralise. The first turns your natural flinch into a technique to seize the weapon arm.
"Did you tweet that, Nadya?" Our heroine glides her fingers across the iPhone, snapping her beaming boss at the wheel of a Sheikh's canary-yellow Lambo. A witty fiction of corniche cruising and conspicuous wealth.
A trawl through Moukarzel's cleverly named studio, Minime, reveals a wealth of images: gritty reportage, social commentary, fashion, advertising, jewellery, portraits, landscapes, architecture, even hairstyles. You would be forgiven for thinking him a camera-toting jack-of-all-trades.