Remembering Bandar Abdulaziz – albeit an all-too-common African story
In October 2010, Prince Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser Al Saud was sentenced to at least twenty years in prison for killing his Sudanese servant, Bandar Abdulaziz, in a sexually motivated assault. The Saudi...
View ArticleHow to be me: the creative hustler
I always thought that I had to choose between them all. Turns out I didn’t. I’m a creative and all these things form part of my creative hustle.
View ArticlePhotographic madness at the British Museum
In which I get high on photography at the British Museum.
View ArticleFilm review: Wajda
As female protagonists go, there is no simpering or protracted missions to get the man. Instead, there is are painful realisations of the way men and women are treated in Saudi
View ArticleThe food blog
I'm not particularly fond of beef and I can't say that I understand lamb. But fish?
View ArticleGot fired, got a life
A few years ago, I was fired from a job. I was summoned into the manager’s office and told my role had been offered to someone else
View ArticleA curious thing happened at the weekend
I’m of the firm belief that people should eat what they darn well please. So, if I have a craving for salmon and pasta, then, that’s exactly what I’m going to eat
View ArticleThe Romanians next door
I used to have Romanian neighbours. They lived right next door and then, one day, in the middle of the night, they packed up and left.
View ArticleDo writers really care about awards?
Of course writers care about awards (and whoever says otherwise is lying). Who doesn’t want a boost to their book sales and royalty cheque to boot?!
View ArticleGoing bald
I did it. Last December, I woke up and chopped off my hair. The night before, I ‘d taken out my plaits, a process that took five hours of my life that I will never get back. Each time I took a plait in...
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