* The museum will display no less than 50 thousand antiquities by the time of its grand opening. * The museum will feature a seven-thousand-meter long section which, for the first time in history,…

I’ve always had a lot of time for sceptics. In some cases, you had to have a lot of time. There was the one who landed up in a ditch and refused to come out till someone could prove he was actually…

What do Kim Kardashian-West, Kylie Jenner, Lady Gaga, Salma Hayek, Victoria’s Secret models and Brad Pitt all have in common? Well, they all get their beauty procedures done by none other than Dr…

Following two stabbing attacks in London in just over two months carried out by convicts who had been let out of jail early, the question is being raised again of how to make prison more effective in…

Joaquin Phoenix was born as Joaquin Rafael Bottom to John Lee Bottom and Arlyn Bottom in Rio Piedras in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 28, 1974. His parents were ardent followers of the…

The ginger-haired Jesus, by Paul Gauguin. As a painter, especially in his early years, Gauguin could be remarkably gauche. Given a different chain of…

The Capital.Robert Menasse. Translated byJamie Bulloch.. Liveright, 2019. 416pp.TheEuropean Unionmay well be the most ambitious and successful experiment in voluntary international…

Abdelmejid Tebboune was born on 17 November 1945, in Mishriah (Naama province), southwest of the Algerian Republic. He graduated from the National School of Administration (Algeria). His…

More than two months into the Lebanon Protests, and after many attempts by Hezbollah to bring back their favorite candidate – Saad Hariri – to form a government, Hezbollah finally decided to take the…

About 25 years ago, I spent a memorable afternoon in London with Michael Young, the author of the strange 1958 dystopian novel in the form of a dissertation calledThe Rise of the Meritocracy, which…