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By Layal Alameddine Dunya Hassan. Photograph: Layal Alameddine. From her bedroom in Western Sydney, Dunya Hassan is developing a technology that could fundamentally shift how people with deaf-blindness experience communication. Her prototype ‘Braille GPT’ converts spoken language into real-time Braille , enabling people with combined hearing and vision impairments to access dynamic conversations. Braille GPT isn’t just innovation, it’s intervention in a world where most tec

By Nadia Elkaid Long before Lebanese sweets filled shopfronts across Australia, there was a busy Redfern corner shop where a family of new arrivals taught the nation to love baklawa (baklava). In December 1970, just six months after arriving in Sydney, pastry chef Rateb Elmowy and his son Abdullah (known as Albert) opened Elmowy & Sons , the first Lebanese sweet shop in Australia. <Inside Elmowy & Sons. Pictured from left to right: Fawaz, Abdullah (Albert), Rateb (Ahmad's so

By Amelie Zreika At 26, Lebanese-Australian fashion influencer Nawal Sari has become one of Sydney’s most recognisable Muslim creatives, but she makes it clear that her work extends beyond fashion as a vehicle for purpose and community. In conversation with OffScript, Sari shares the realities of her career post October 2023, and the responsibilities she believes anyone with a platform has.