Sharjah

Why would the whole world’s book industry gather in booze-free Sharjah?

2 January 2016 9:00 am

Who goes to the Sharjah International Book Fair? Sam Leith, for one

Justin Marozzi’s diary: Lunch with Saddam’s hangman, and a democratic revolution in Kensington

25 April 2015 9:00 am

Lunch with the man who hanged Saddam. My irrepressible old Baghdad friend Mowaffak al-Rubaie, Ealing neurologist turned Iraqi national security…