Ben East

On September 14, in London, Az Theatre is holding an event to raise awareness of and money for the War & Peace project. Alongside music from Soufian Saihi and Billy Adamson, a company of actors will read new work from Hassan Abdulrazzak, Caryl Churchill, Ahmed Masoud and Haifa Zangana – all of which will connect in some way to Tolstoy’s masterpiece.

Nadia Manzoor’s new one-woman show Burq Off! is now headed to London after going down a storm in the United States.

The pop star is launching the performing arts school with her husband, Johnny Shentall-Lee, a professional dancer who has worked with Robbie Williams and Diana Ross.

The Pakistani author Bilal Tanweer discusses why his debut novel, which is set in Karachi, needed divergent views instead of a straighforward narractive.

Author Joseph O'Neill shares his views on Dubai and the expatriates who travel there to live and work, and explains why he chose the city as the setting for his Man Booker Prize-nominated novel, The Dog

It took Suniti Namjoshi 16 years following the death of her cat to write this tribute. It took that much time, Namjoshi says, to write both about remembering Suki and letting go of her.

A new exhibition in London examines places and people in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe through landscape photography - and from the perspective of women artists.

Ayyam Gallery’s new exhibition featuring Syrian artists has been wowing UAE audiences for a few months now. This week it transfers to London, and its one Dubai-based painter, Mohannad Orabi, is ready for global interest.

The critics are divided and no one seems to know what to think about Melissa McCarthy's latest film Tammy.

Alongside the latest books from literary heavyweights such as David Mitchell and Howard Jacobson is a yet-to-be-published novel that explores the expat experience in Dubai.

Ishmael’s Oranges is full of little moments of cross-cultural promise – and the author Claire Hajaj should know all about them: her mother is Jewish and her father Palestinian.

Mira Jacob’s debut novel The Sleepwalkers Guide to Dancing is an acutely observed portrait of an Indian family in America – and it took her 10 years to write. She tells us why family is always a sustaining strength.

Kalyan Ray’s second novel is an epic story of migration and identity spanning continents and generations. He tells Ben East why moving around the globe takes ‘imagination, faith and energy’

A new anthology of The Book of the 1,001 Nights - or Arabian Nights as it became known in English - casts fresh light on the glory period of these stories: the 19th century.

Anyone who is anyone in the world of building is at the Venice Architecture Biennale. And for the first time, the UAE is presenting a national pavilion to stand alongside the best in the planet. We paid a visit to see how the UAE pavilion is confounding expectations.