Saw the trailer for Anonymous the other day, the Roland Emmerich film which recasts the age-old debate about whether Shakespeare actually wrote his famous plays into a political thriller. What’s not in doubt, though, is […]
In the last few years I’ve come across loads of excellent writing from the Arab world. Partly because of my job, partly because I think there’s a renaissance going on. The Beirut39 collection of work […]
A Case Of Exploding Mangoes was one of those breakout hits, a strangely witty tale about a presidential assassination featuring a walk on role for Osama Bin Laden which won Hanif plenty of plaudits and […]