Articles
Soul singer Gabrielle gets set for festival in Dubai
Ahead of her double bill show with George Benson at the du World Music Festival, one of Britain's foremost soul singers, Gabrielle, talks about the trajectory of her career.
Romesh Gunesekera: books are like islands
Learn about the Booker-nominated Sri Lankan author Romesh Gunesekera's thoughtful, lyrical view of fiction at this year's Emirates Airline Festival Of Literature.
David Nicholls author of One Day is coming to Dubai
Part of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature next month: David Nicholls.
First Thatcher, now Diana - UK women in the vanguard of new-look biopics
Whatever happened to the expansive, life-spanning biopic? Today we see a trend for smaller, self-contained snapshots of specific moments in a life.
Ruth Padel explores the phenomenon of human migration
Ruth Padel talks about her latest book and how all mammals grapple with migration.
Elton John wants to create a biopic in his own image
The past weeks have been rife with talk of an Elton John biopic, a "jukebox musical" titled Rocket Man, with a screenplay co-penned with Billy Elliot's Lee Hall.
Adonis's translator shares details of his own nuanced art
The English translations gathered together in the peerless Adonis: Selected Poems have just won the Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Arabic translation.
Adonis offers his poetic view
The 82-year-old Syrian poet, a pioneer of modern Arabic poetry, is the talk of London literary circles right now.
Guitar bands may be less popular, but they're far from disappearing
Ahead of Kasabian's Dubai concert this Friday, we wonder, are they the last of a dying breed?
Welcome the United Arab Emirates National Symphony Orchestra
We meet the conductor of the soon-to-be UAE National Symphony Orchestra, as he prepares for its inaugural concert in March.
One book's aim to share the inspiration of Islamic art
Published by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation, Reflections on Islamic Art is a far cry from the usual stuffy exhibition guides put together by academics and art historians.
Scepticism over Soderbergh and Lucas retirement announcements
Why don't moviemakers actually bite the bullet and retire for good while at the top of their game?
Downton Abbey success shows global nostalgia for UK period drama
How did a TV show about 20th-century life at an English country house manage to push the buttons of viewers worldwide?
Books, TV series and movie re-release planned to mark Titanic centenary
A new book promises a fresh look at the lost liner: a social history of those who worked and travelled on the ship.
Changing an ending is not the end of the world (or hardly ever)
Few things are quite so controversial as changing the denouement of a bestseller for a screen adaptation. But that doesn't necessarily mean it is wrong.
