Features

Sam the man

The Jordanian basketball player who once managed to beat the NBA’s Most Valuable Player leads Jordan’s national team to the 2010 FIBA World Championship.

Gulf in class

Jordanian guitar and oud magician Kamal Musallam releases his latest album to international acclaim

How to make lots of money in 2010

Having read most of the financial press, been glued to CNBC ever since the financial crisis, and started to dabble in the stock market ourselves, we put our heads together to suggest the best rules for investing in 2010

Top 10

Sporting events of 2010

Dig deeper Watson

Jude Law is hoping that his role in Sherlock Holmes will restore his position. Not that the multi-talented Londoner cares for that “image” thing...

Just capital

The most successful documentary filmmaker in Hollywood tries to shed light on what he calls the biggest heist in the history of the world

They said there'd be peace on earth

The Santa Claus Project is bringing the spirit of Christmas to Bethlehem, where 2,000 years ago Christ was born – also under occupation

Going underground

The tunnels of Gaza might be portrayed as sinister routes for illicit weapons smuggling, but they provide essential arteries for livelihoods – and love

The miracle game

As Egypt hosted Algeria for a place in South Africa’s 2010 World Cup, it underlined why the Egyptians regard this game as the biggest on the planet

The road from Damascus

The Syrian labour force is the unofficial lynchpin of Lebanon’s construction industry – a harsh reality born of blind necessity