Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Only Bahraini science students have come close to saving the Arab world’s blushes as Middle East students ...

In some conservative countries in the Arab world, female students are outnumbering men in the fields of science, technology, engineering and maths - widely known as Stem. But after graduation, things ...

Dubai Week three of my Arabic adventure starts with a maths lesson. At least, that’s how it looks when the tutor writes on the white board 25÷4=5. But no such luck - I was always pretty good at maths ...

Guido Menzio, a tenured professor of who won the 2015 Carlo Alberto medal, was even more surprised to find out why the passenger sitting next to him had raised the alarm: She had noticed that the ...