Open Skies, March 2018 The lights dim, the audience quietens in expectation. Suddenly, amid a riot of colour and stirring music, a true, timeless icon looms large on huge screens, drawing everyone deep into the […]
The National, August 2018 It was a stiflingly hot night in a Nigerian border village. Thousands of miles away, bombs were raining down on Baghdad as the Iraq War intensified. A young aid worker on […]
The National, August 2018 In a cell 2.4 metres by 2.1 metres, Nelson Mandela sat down to write to his daughters. It was 1969, and Mandela had been serving a life sentence as a political […]
The National, July 22 It was like watching a champion boxer enter the ring. To a cacophony of cheers and rapturous applause, a hooded figure strode on stage at San Diego’s entertainment extravaganza Comic-Con on […]
The National, June 2018 Written as a response to the experience of Palestinians living in Israel, Fractured Destinies deservedly won Rabai Al Madhoun the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2016. Now translated into English […]