Vibrant Portraits: A Conversation With Maliha Abidi

Vibrant Portraits: A Conversation With Maliha Abidi

Written by Piney Kesting
After growing up in Karachi, Pakistan, and moving to California as a teenager, artist and author Maliha Abidi found it difficult to find stories of women who looked like her or with whom she felt she could identify.
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Finding Structure: A Conversation with Eric Broug

Finding Structure: A Conversation with Eric Broug

As a boy living in Jakarta, where his Dutch father worked as a civil engineer in the early 1970s, Eric Broug grew fascinated with Islamic culture. By the 1990s, after having begun studies in Middle Eastern politics at the University of Amsterdam, Broug turned his interest to Islamic geometric design and joined the master’s program at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies in Islamic art and archeology.
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Lives in Clay: A Conversation with R. Neil Hewison

Lives in Clay: A Conversation with R. Neil Hewison

Written by Kyle Pakka
He never planned on Egypt. Having learned Swahili while studying linguistics at York University, in his hometown of York, United Kingdom, R. Neil Hewison expected his first assignment with the international charity organization Voluntary Service Overseas would be in East Africa.
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Finding Echoes of Stories Across Cultures: A Conversation With Elizabeth Laird

Finding Echoes of Stories Across Cultures: A Conversation With Elizabeth Laird

Written by Kay Hardy Campbell

Growing up in South London, children’s book author Elizabeth Laird always hungered for stories. Although her family praised her for being a voracious reader, her parents monitored what she read, frowning on fairy tales or anything supernatural.

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A Personal Exploration of the `ud: A Conversation With Rachel Beckles Willson

A Personal Exploration of the `ud: A Conversation With Rachel Beckles Willson

Written by Kay Hardy Campbell
Entranced as much by its sound as by its centuries of history, in 2010 Rachel Beckles Willson started playing the `ud (oud), building enough skill to start performing on the instrument. She also became curious about its origins. 
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Nourishing Hope: A Conversation With Barbara Abdeni Massaad

Nourishing Hope: A Conversation With Barbara Abdeni Massaad

by Piney Kesting

Forever Beirut—a collection of 100 traditional Lebanese dishes, each accompanied by a personal story—is her way of processing her own grief in the wake of the explosion while preserving cherished customs and recipes and helping in recovery efforts. 

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Desert Dreams: A Conversation With Martin Williams

Desert Dreams: A Conversation With Martin Williams

Interview by Dianna Wray

He was just a British kid looking for something to read one lazy summer day in 1950s Paris when images of the Sahara’s vast expanse on a magazine cover grabbed his attention. The story, about the fossils that had then just been discovered in the Sahara’s valleys, fascinated him. “I thought, I’m going to go and see those for myself one day,” Williams recalls.

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Cooking Food For the Body, Mind and Soul: A Conversation With Chef and Restauranteur Asma Khan

Cooking Food For the Body, Mind and Soul: A Conversation With Chef and Restauranteur Asma Khan

by Marina Ali
Asma Khan introduced her blend of South Asian food to England in 2017 when she founded the Darjeerling Express, a brick-and-mortar restaurant in London that started off as a supper club.
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Thirst for the Desert: A Conversation with Ibrahim al-Koni

Thirst for the Desert: A Conversation with Ibrahim al-Koni

Written by DIANNA WRAY, translated by NANCY ROBERTS
Although now one of the most acclaimed writers in the Arabic world, Ibrahim al-Koni spent his earliest years completely immersed in the language and stories of Tuareg oral culture-a historically nomadic Berber tribe in northwest Libya.
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