Full Coverage: Culture

28.10.2009 What Fatima Did… was adopt the veil, to the amazement of her teenage classmates and friends. This sharp, fast-moving play shows what happened next.

19.10.2009 “Something bad happened when Lilli was a baby. Something she should have been protected from. But she’s not a baby anymore and it’s time to understand that actions have consequences.” - iceandfire takes its latest play for young people to schools around London.

09.10.2009 Good Hair, the award-winning documentary co-written and produced by Chris Rock, opens this year's BFM International Film Festival.

08.10.2009 At 17, she drinks, smokes and parties. On the eve of her 18th birthday, without word or warning or explanation, she adopts the hijab. A new play takes the London stage.

28.09.2009 Daniyal Mueenuddin’s In Other Rooms, Other Wonders is likely to get my vote for book of the year. The publishers have also taken trouble with old-fashioned virtues of design.

17.08.2009 Adapting to a warmer climate in the UK brings the promise of Mediterranean pleasures. Whilst poor countries will struggle with food production, we can look forward to consuming more of it outdoors.

31.07.2009 Loss and Liberty, a new collection of ceramic artworks and poems produced by offenders at Wandsworth Prison, is on display in the Docklands Museum's London Sugar & Slavery gallery.

26.07.2009 Profane, rude, blasphemous, direct, mischievous - Kureishi's back: “There are times when we can be too respectful to one another and that can be dangerous.”

29.06.2009 The new UK climate projections published by the Met Office Hadley Centre are a valuable risk management tool for policymakers. But they also speak volumes about the global failure to protect poor countries from climate change.

08.03.2009 William Dalrymple's book review draws interesting parallels between post-independence land reform in India and Pakistan and the contrasting path of modern literature in the two countries. Financial Times

07.03.2009 “In Afghanistan”, says the ad for Afghan Star, “you risk your life to sing.”

02.03.2009 David Hare will perform his own work, Wall, drawing on his trips to Israel and the Palestinian Territories, at the Royal Court on 12-14 March.

27.02.2009 England People Very Nice is designedly not very nice. Funny, sharp, chaotic, focused; but not very nice.

30.01.2009 England People Very Nice is a journey through four waves of immigration from the 17th century to today. As the French Huguenots, the Irish, the Jews and the Bangladeshis enter the chaotic world of Bethnal Green, each new influx provokes a surge of violent protest over housing, jobs, religion and culture. And the emerging pattern shows that white flight and anxiety over integration are anything but new.

19.01.2009 Setting the final scene of Slumdog Millionaire in Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus unwittingly links the film with the recent terrorism outrage. Can the "war on terror" hope to end as happily as the film?

05.01.2009 Syria has a thriving industry in the design and manufacture of imaginative women's lingerie. A new book "The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie" reveals much about women's freedom in the Arab world.

29.10.2008 Emteaz Hussain says she ran away and took shelter in a women’s refuge when she was 16, so it’s not surprising that the central characters in her first play, Sweet Cider, are two young British Asian women who have run away from home.

26.06.2008 The lives of humanitarian aid workers will be in the spotlight on 11 and 12 July, when the curtain goes up on Think global, fuck local at London’s Royal Court Theatre.

07.05.2008 Durgabai Deshmukh Award winner Daud Sharifa Khanam from southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu provided Muslim women a platform to challenge the oppressive patriarchal system. For this, she has had to face the ire of Muslim clerics. She was hated, abused and threatened but she never gave up the fight.

06.05.2008 Traditional midwives or dais have been overlooked by India’s National Rural Health Mission that focuses solely on institutional delivery. In a country having the highest maternal mortality rate and collapsing rural health care, there is a need to integrate these women in public health programmes.