Tahira Yaqoob

Make-up sessions, stand-up comedy and yoga lessons are not what come to mind when you think of coping with the typical group activities that breast cancer. Tahira Yaqoob meets women who find them therapeutic.

Cinema has always had a role to play in exploring complex issues and at this year’s Abu Dhabi Film Festival, the problems children face is a common theme. Tahira Yaqoob looks at films nominated for the new Child Protection Award

At a charity dinner in Dubai, Prince Harry greets his 300-strong audience in Arabic, only to find himself stumbling over the words to the applause of his encouraging listeners.

A rash of Canadian-themed restaurants have sprung up recently, offering traditional fare for homesick Canadians hungry for a taste of smoked meat or those bite-sized doughnut centres called Timbits.

An imaginative new collection of short stories by British expat Craig Hawes explores many aspects of life in Dubai, writes Tahira Yaqoob

Meet Paul Frangie, a Dubai-based Lebanese-Dutch model whose latest venture is the website This Dude Knows Food, which features a culinary web show.

As top food writers converge in Dubai for the city's first Food Blogger Connect event, we talk to the best of the UAE's 100-plus food bloggers about their recipe for success.

What is it about celebrity chefs that we love so much here? And what is the lure of the UAE for names which are already established worldwide?

Are we listening enough to what our guts are trying to tell us?

From a few scattered settlements half a century ago, the UAE has become a nation known for buildings ambitious enough to be seen from space.

Abderrahim Gotni, the fan who ran onstage at Bieber's concert in Dubai, has no regrets about his stunt, but is sad that the pop star looked so terrified, Tahira Yaqoob reports.

Big hair buns are a hair style both controversial and divisive. What's the allure? Tahira Yaqoob investigates.