Dubai Food Festival
Vision, February 2014 The capital of England boasts Taste of London, while San Francisco is the place to go for the best street food festival. In Australasia, Melbourne’s Food And Wine Festival draws the biggest […]
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Acid Arab interview
The National: February 2014 The harsh, repetitive electronic sounds of 1980s acid house and the expansive drama of traditional Middle Eastern music are not the most obvious of bedfellows. So when the Parisian DJs Guido […]
Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize can translate into big success
The National, February 2014 When the shortlist for the International Prize For Arabic Fiction (IPAF) was announced yesterday, it was tempting to suggest the literary scene in the Arab world is not only healthy, but […]
Khaled Khalifa favourite for “Arab Booker”
The National, February 2014 The award-winning Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa is the obvious favourite for the seventh International Prize For Arabic Fiction, as judges announced an intriguing shortlist on Monday featuring everything from a Moroccan […]
Smarter: The New Science of Building Brain Power by Dan Hurley
The Observer, February 2014 Playing your unborn child Mozart will increase its intelligence. So might feeding it fish oil. Physical exercise, nicotine, coffee, Nintendo’s Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training, meditation… all have been heralded as pathways to […]