Over the last seven years, ISF has grown from modest beginnings into a well-rounded foundation, surpassing even our own expectations in the process. We have republished Shah’s work in hundreds of new editions on both sides of the Atlantic, launched dozens of foreign translations in both East and West, have established a major collaboration [...]
About Kashfi Khan and Ezra Hewing Kashfi Khan works with children who speak English as an additional language (EAL) aged 5 to11 years old at Hounslow Town Primary School, London. Ezra Hewing is Head of Education at the mental health charity, Suffolk Mind. In our work, we’ve found that introducing stories or metaphors, including the children’s [...]
About Paul-Gordon Chandler Paul-Gordon Chandler is an author, non-profit executive, art curator, social entrepreneur and U.S. Episcopal priest who is an authority on the Middle East and Christian-Muslim relations, having lived and worked in the Middle East, North Africa and West Africa for many years. He grew up in Senegal, and has worked extensively throughout the world in leadership roles [...]
Brain plasticity – the idea that the brain is far more than a mere computer that slowly dies as we get older – is possibly the most stunning reversal of knowledge in the late 20th century. And yet it is still mostly unknown to many people, who have been brought up on the previously accepted [...]
This classic book, first published in 1974, is still in print and still selling. Yet it may shock the first-time reader to see that many of the author’s suggestions – made 45 years ago – have yet to be acted upon. In some respects, the negative trends identified by Schumacher have become more extensive. The [...]
We hear about empathy more and more these days; there is even a travelling museum of empathy. But long before the media landed on it, Frans de Waal, one of the world’s leading primatologists and the discoverer that animals perform reconciliation, wrote this book summing up years of research and insights by himself and others [...]
Almost anything written by Kevin Kelly is worth a read. One of the founders of Wired magazine, and more importantly, the man behind Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools website, he is a thoughtful, humane and persistent examiner of what the future will look like. And the future is partly made by people who attempt to predict [...]
About Delphine Warin Delphine Warin is a Paris-based photographer who has worked for many international publications, including Time Magazine, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire. She studied in France and the US, and much of her work focusses on Morocco. She is the niece of the photographer Sarah Moon, for whom she worked for several years as an [...]
About Jason Goodwin Jason Goodwin is an author and chef, much of whose work is focussed on Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. His books include On Foot to the Golden Horn, Lords of the Horizon, and a series of crime novels featuring an Istanbul investigator named Yashim. His latest book, Yashim Cooks Istanbul: Culinary Adventures [...]
About Martin Maudsley Martin Maudsley is a professional storyteller based in South-West England. He has worked for the BBC, the National Trust, the Eden Project and the Soil Association, amongst many other organisations. In 2007 he established the Bristol Storytelling Festival, and was its director for seven years. He integrates music and poetry into his [...]