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The latest groundbreaking project by award-winning author Hassan Blasim is ‘Iraq+100’, for which he edited the work of ten Iraqi writers asked to imagine their country in the year 2103. Citing a lack of contemporary sci-fi and contemporary genres in Iraqi literature, Hassan Blasim and B…
From his early days dancing in the underground rap scene of Memphis, Tennessee, to international stardom and being called “what you might get if Mikhail Baryshnikov and Chris Brown’s genes were combined in a blender,” Lil Buck displays his unique moves in the halls of …
Writer and artist Sophia Al Maria coined the term Gulf Futurism in 2007 to describe the architecture, urban planning and aesthetics of the oil-era Gulf, typified by isolation through technology and dizzying speed of change.
Meet Mashael Al Rahji, Saudi Arabia's representative at this year's London Fashion Week, whose bold street-versus-couture collection is shattering the status quo with a minimalism and underlying philosophy that treat fashion as an extension of identity.
Credited with over 3,500 inventions and still going, our subject reflects on a lifetime of relentless ideas, dwarfing even Thomas Edison's tally, and recalls the boyhood spark that started it all.
War, terror, people smugglers, storms, nothing could get between Syrian swimmer Rami Anis and his dream of sporting glory. Meet one of the athletes who competed in the Refugee Olympic Team in Rio 2016. Rami Anis rolled to one side of his single, carelessly made bed, then to the other. H…
On a humid June evening at Beirut's Hotel Le Vendome, our writer's discomfort melts away before the inimitable charm of Amr Koura, a rare quality in the cutthroat worlds of film and television.
Looking at Marc Quinn’s most recent work in the Middle East, as part of an inaugural ‘The World Meets Here’ group show in Dubai’s Custot Gallery, it’s difficult not to reflect on what a far cry it is from that which first brought him to fame. If “blood head” doesn’t sound familiar, then…
The bestselling author and social-science observer turned his name into shorthand for big-picture thinking. He cheerfully admits he is no scientist, yet his elegant theories still reshape how we read modern life.
Estimated to be worth over 400 million dollars, Gisele Bündchen is by far the most successful model ever. As a final adieu to a twenty-year career, she has created this 536-page tome with Taschen.
Kiwi cartoonist Malcolm Evans once drew two women, one in a bikini, one veiled, each pitying the other's oppression. Humorous yet pointed, the image opens a thoughtful reflection on covering, freedom and cultural prejudice.
Flown to Munich for BMW's centenary, our writer braced for two days of M3s, Hofmeister kinks and ultimate driving machines, but never expected a rival marque to muscle in on the carmaker's big day.