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I learned to people-watch in Paris, arriving from Amman as though dropped into the very epicentre of fascination. The first rule: ignore the locals, whose conversations rarely rise above the morning's metro delays.
People have written about it since writing began, yet for most of history men held the pen. Invoking Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, we explore who truly shaped fiction's intimate lives.
He may be only 33, but Rabih Fouany has been head chef at the Phoenicia's principal restaurant, Eau de Vie, for four years. So when we dared him to cook exclusively for us, he did not even blink.
A year after revolution swept the Arab world, Dr Marwan Iskandar weighs the economic decline, entrenched corruption and popular fury that toppled regimes from Tunis and Cairo to Tripoli, Damascus, Manama and Sanaa.
Remember the scales that announced your weight for a coin? Michael Karam traces the curious disappearance of the speak-your-weight machine from Britain's high streets and chemists, and the very human reluctance behind its fall.
The presenter of Words of the People reflects on leaving law behind for television, the human connection he craves in his work, and why he scarcely watches the medium that made his name.
Vampire motifs, women adorned in raw meat, Louboutins burned to their frames: photographer Tyler Shields loves pushing buttons, especially the ones that are not on his camera, and frankly does not care what you think.
Danielle Arbid has a way of keeping you on your toes. Her 2008 video essay 'This Smell of Sex' deploys such forthright language that the room blushes, yet offers barely an image beyond archival photographs and blazing intertitles.
Born in Medina in 1958, Jamal Ahmed Khashoggi has long ranked among Saudi Arabia's most prominent and outspoken journalists. Now heading the nascent network Alarab, he weighs the proper remit of journalism in the Arab world.
A former London English teacher, Layla Totah now holds sewing classes in her Beirut apartment, teaching everything from tote bags to tailored coats, all served alongside her own freshly baked breads and cakes.
Tall, urbane and crowned with a tarboush, the man Michael Karam calls 'The Lawyer' was irresistible. The encounter unfolds in a poorly lit Cairo antique shop, stuffed with deco furniture rescued from grand period houses.
Having her work disqualified from a prestigious prize run by Lausanne's Musee de l'Elysee might have dampened Larissa Sansour's spirits. Instead, the rejected series became the inspiration for the latest stage of her work, Nation Estate.