Profiles

Saudi Arabia, a country renowned for its desert landscapes and scorching temperatures, seems an unlikely starting point for an alpine skier. Yet Sharifa Al-Sudairi grew up in snow-free Jeddah...

It’s safe to say that Stuart Jeffries has a complicated relationship with the University...

The year Naomi Lightman came to study at Oxford – 1962 – was the first in which women were allowed to become members of the Oxford Union. Four years earlier, the five women’s colleges had finally been granted equal status with the men’s colleges.

Long before he became one of Israel's ‘new historians’, Avi Shlaim was a boy...