Yesterday as I sat in Casablanca, a phone call came. There were attacks in Paris: the Stade de France was being attacked. A restaurant had been shot at. As we sat in a quiet restaurant watching the...
The late King of Morocco Hassan II had a stylistic audacity equaled by no monarch and was just as eloquent with metaphors. He wore all the colours of the rainbow and used to compare his country to a...
On Wednesday 7th of January, Paris made headlines worldwide when two armed men burst into the headquarters of the anarchist satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo to kill the cartoonists they deemed...
Despite divergences of opinion amongst Muslim religious scholars as to whether covering the face of a woman in Islam is compulsory or not, practice testifies that many Muslim women customarily do....
At a time when bullets and swords kill in droves, Malala Youzrafi’s story and the honour awarded to her in shape of the Nobel peace prize this month is a humbling reminder of the power of good...
On Sunday 5th of October, at 4:30 pm I sat in a packed auditorium to attend a talk titled Modest Fashion in Modern Times. It was part of the Dubai Fashion Forward talk series. A talk bearing the same...
Over the past decade, I have mostly been resorting to the use of social media as my daily source of information, thus picking and plucking to suit my changing interests. In the aftermath of the Arab...
A week after the Algerian president has been re-elected, having made but one single wheeled-chaired public appearance to cast his vote in the ballot, the Algerian election has been dubbed a fraud,...
