Photography: Olivia Arthur’s Stranger in Dubai
The product of a three-month-long artist’s residency, Olivia Arthur’s ‘Stranger’ takes an episode from Dubai’s recent history as its starting point, the forgotten MV Dara maritime disaster. When you...
View ArticleSuketu Mehta: Bombay’s laureate on Abu Dhabi’s backstreets
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2005, Suketu Mehta has gained global acclaim for his book on Mumbai and his writings on migration and community in major world cities, Nick Leech talks to him about...
View ArticleLinguistic twist: is Arabic in crisis?
Throughout the Arab world, young people are rejecting classical Arabic in favour of a mish-mash of English and their own local dialects – ‘Arabish’ – a popular chat language that mixes the two, writes...
View ArticleDriving: I’m a 45-year-old man who takes the bus. So what?
Outing yourself as a 45-year-old non-driver in Abu Dhabi attracts the same mixture of disbelief, suspicion and pity that’s usually reserved for British teetotalers and vegetarians in France In 1986,...
View ArticleIslam: Omar Ghobash’s Letters to a Young Muslim
Omar Ghobash wrote Letters to a Young Muslim while he was serving as the UAE’s ambassador to Russia out of a desire to prevent his son from succumbing to the perils of radicalisation. The book has won...
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