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

Please Mind the Gap: Amine Habki’s Tender Epics of Desire

Paris-based artist Amine Habki works between painting, drawing, and embroidery, building scenes where ordinary moments slip into something surreal, and quietly charged

Grey Area: Your Guide to New Balance’s Grey Days in Dubai

SLOP IS THAT DEEP

Do you sense that you live in a world that literally makes no fucking sense?

Adam Bakri: In the Presence of Absence

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

Hermès at Home: Everything the House Presented at Milan Design Week 2026

Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry bring their most material-driven collection yet to La Pelota

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