Friday - February 17, 2019

What’s in a font? Four artists, including designer Maria Iqbal, who’s featured on the cover, share their journeys as creatives and how their personal stories reflect the deeper message of the birth of the Dubai Font, the first-ever Microsoft font to be named after a city.
Also in this issue, we speak to UAE parents who have homeschooled their children and ask: was it all worth it?
And with the Emirates Lit Fest just around the corner, we caught up with Ahlam Bolooki, the new director of the fest, to find out what’s new this year.