Sunday, May 20, 2012
  • It’s Hairspray!

    The stage is set. The cast is- almost- ready. The front of the auditorium is an eye watering shade of [...]

  • Celebrating 20 years of Tennis in Dubai!

    With His final forehand being planted in the corner of the court, Federer defeated Murray in the singles final and [...]

  • Is There a Place for Humour in Tragedy?

    Adhering to the traditional definitions of “tragedy”, absolutely not. In Edmund Coote’s “hard word list”, dating back to as far [...]

  • The dangers of self-fulfilling prophecies

    While the nineties was a period of unrivalled prosperity for most countries in both the developing and developed world, the [...]

  • Verbier Ski Trip 2012

      48 students and 4 teachers, great snow, a fair amount of sunshine and evenings filled with activities sums up [...]

  • Lin Fever!

    Ever since New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin started lighting up NBA defenses, fans around the world have wondered [...]

  • Top Tips for University Students…

    1. Buy a watch! And wear it! Time management will be useful if you want to meet those all-important deadlines, [...]

  • The Dummy Wears Prada

    Coco Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, Manolo Blahnik. Many people like to believe that fashion defines life. The glitz and glamour of [...]

  • New Year, New Start, New Broken Resolutions

    “To not keep my new year’s resolution” is statistically the most realistic resolution one can make. At this point in [...]

  • Incendiary by Chris Cleave

    “Dear Osama they want you dead or alive so the terror will stop. There’s a reward of 25 million dollars [...]

  • The Forgotten Dictator

                Amidst the chaos of tumbling dictatorships across the world, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe quietly announces that he will be running [...]

  • What’s on this month?

    There’s always loads going on in Dubai every month, so here are a couple of one-off events this month that [...]

  • The Poetics of Life

    “It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is [...]

  • Doctor Who – Sexist?

    Doctor Who is one of the longest running television shows in the UK. Now in the seventh season of its [...]

  • An elegy for the Mahatma’s lost legacy…

    At midnight on the 15th August 1947, a nation made its “tryst with destiny.” The true dimensions of India had [...]

  • The race that is making America’s head spin

    The unclear unity of the Republican Party is clearly shown through the extensive range of republican candidates who seem to [...]

  • Getting into Oxbridge: An Interview

    Top grades? Check. Won a million and one awards? Check. Prefect, school newspaper editor, sports captain or a leader of [...]

  • Knowledge Village Food Court – Critic’s Review

     For a situate which is entitled to the attendees of universities, consultation rooms, offices – a usually highly regarded and [...]

  • Protecting the Future?

    Is the common view in the field of economics that ‘Free Trade’ is the best way forward for the world [...]

  • “Misery” Live in Dubai

    From the esteemed creative collaboration of Popular Productions, purveyors of some of Dubai’s finest theatre, and the iconic father of [...]

Vladmir Putin has claimed victory in Russia’s presidential elections. This will be his third term after spending the last four [...]

The stage is set. The cast is- almost- ready. The front of the auditorium is an eye watering shade of [...]

When thinking about Dubai and the way people live here, ‘organic’ and ‘green’ are definitely not the first words that [...]

With His final forehand being planted in the corner of the court, Federer defeated Murray in the singles final and [...]

Adhering to the traditional definitions of “tragedy”, absolutely not. In Edmund Coote’s “hard word list”, dating back to as far [...]

In the early hours of Friday morning, rumours came through of an explosion in one of the main pipelines in [...]

It’s Hairspray!

The stage is set. The cast is- almost- ready. The front of the auditorium is an eye watering shade of [...]

Is There a Place for Humour in Tragedy?

Adhering to the traditional definitions of “tragedy”, absolutely not. In Edmund Coote’s “hard word list”, dating back to as far [...]

The dangers of self-fulfilling prophecies

While the nineties was a period of unrivalled prosperity for most countries in both the developing and developed world, the [...]

Lin Fever!

Ever since New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin started lighting up NBA defenses, fans around the world have wondered [...]

TAG CLOUD