Ahmed Emad and the Path of Desire

A desire path is an unofficial route formed when people choose the shortest, most instinctive way between two points, favouring lived experience over prescribed design. It is a path made by repetition, conviction, and quiet resistance. Based between Abu Dhabi and Sharjah, Ahmed Emad’s journey follows a similar logic. A Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate, former museum educator at Louvre Abu Dhabi, he is currently the Public Programming Specialist at the highly anticipated Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

AAU Anastas Bring the Art and Politics of Building with Stone to ICD Brookfield Place Dubai

Aga Khan Award–winning architects Elias and Yousef Anastas make the case that what we build with and how we extract it, is never just a material question

Bad Boys and Big Feelings: Abdulaziz Al-Hosni Toys with the Anatomy of the Heart

From heart-embroidered kummahs to 50 dancers arranged in formation against a crimson background, Abdulaziz Al-Hosni’s work is a love letter to softness

The Summer Roundup: Sun, Sea, and Statement Pieces

We're cool for the summer

Adam Bakri: In the Presence of Absence

Every Arab Designer You Need to Know From Milan Design Week 2026

Salasil: Practitioners of Care and Experimentation

The UAE-based curatorial duo favours slowness, depth and imagination, resisting extractive cultural models and spectacle-driven sameness of today’s institutions. Studio salasil responds to the shifting contours of the world, forging encounters where care grounds the work and experimentation keeps it breathing

Watches & Wonders 2026: The Highlights

From Cartier's automotive revival to JLC's stratospheric tourbillon to Roger Dubuis's celestial calendar, the year's biggest watch fair reminded us that restraint and ambition are not mutually exclusive