petit h: The Astonishing and Unexpected Afterlife of Hermès Offcuts

Hermès’ upcycling workshop returned to The Dubai Mall with a carpet woven from palm leaves and a cast of objects built from the house’s offcuts

What It Takes to Be Mister Lebanon

As opportunities shrink in Lebanon, contestants are pouring increasing amounts of time, money and effort into the country’s most famous male beauty pageant, and the possibilities it might unlock

5 Young Arab Designers Who Refuse to Blend In

The emerging cohort of designers transforming raw material into a living temperament

SOFT POWER: Hawazin Alotaibi’s Pink Rebellion

Through a playful palette of pinks and pastels, the Saudi artist reimagines Khaleeji masculinity, challenging the conventions of gender, power and self-image with an unexpected softness

Notes on Lebanese Frenchies and the In Vitro Diaspora

Francophilia has long been a part of Lebanon’s complex sociopolitical fabric. The Frenchies of the country detach themselves from their environment and enjoy a bourgeois French-centric mode of existence. In the wake of ongoing national crises, members of the francophone middle class are becoming increasingly critical of their upbringing and aim to re-appropriate a certain sense of Lebaneseness

Salam, El Mehdi!

Pop star, filmmaker and now leading man, El Mehdi talks gatekeeping, going home and the peace that comes with choosing yourself

Aestheticised Violence and The Spectacle of Political Slop

How a war became content, and why the exhaustion is the point

At SeeDjerba, the Tunisian Island Becomes the Gallery

At its 2026 edition, See Djerba turned a Tunisian island's fortresses, shrines and craft villages into a gallery that asks you to look at the place as closely as the art