Best summer books of 2025: Roula Khalaf, Stephen Bush and other FT journalists pick their favourites ...

Roula Khalaf Well, clearly the most interesting part is reading — reading the books. It does take most of my summer, but it keeps me up on all the business ideas and the business books of the ...

Roula Khalaf is Deputy Editor of the Financial Times. She has worked for the FT since 1995, first as North Africa correspondent, then Middle East correspondent and most recently as Middle East editor.