I’d like you to grow a beard so that when you whisper in my ear the bristles chafe against my cheek I’d like you to stutter an interrupted thought from the sudden wink I give mid sentence in conversation with...

St Paul’s Cathedral At times I lie here under quilted half sleep I think of your cobbled madness tucked into alleyways of rogue tourists At times the lull of a metro worm here reminds me of sooted nostrils there Of...

The amygdala is the most used part of my brain when driving in Dubai. Yesterday I visited a friend who lives in a flat in a gridlock of buildings along Dubai’s overdeveloped seafront. It’s a 7.5 minute walk from my...

Go forth and bring peace to the world they told us Yours are the voices Your hearts will set things straight (as if in its crookedness we are falling off the planet, us unsung heroines) Every story you share will...

I believe each person is equal let’s not deceive ourselves by creating differences then say they existed before we were born I believe the colour of human skin differs but we all bleed red We all shit and piss the...

I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home. Pico Iyer Living in Dubai,...