Inside Bvlgari’s Collaboration with Emirati-Artist Mattar Bin Lahej

The Arabic-Calligraphy Octo Finissimo Debuting at Dubai Watch Week 2025

Rediscovering Roots and Removing Restrictions 

In the world of luxury timepieces, 2025 has been a year of rediscovering roots and removing restrictions

Inside Cartier’s New Fondation: When Art Finally Made Sense

I never thought I’d be moved by contemporary art until Jean Nouvel’s Fondation Cartier proved me wrong

J Balvin: Reimagining Reggaeton As A Universal Rhythm Of Identity

From new music to a performance this November at Dubai’s UNTOLD Festival, the Medellín-born megastar sets his sights on the MENA region 

GROUND BREAKERS: Africa’s Earthen Architecture Through Time

Omar Offendum: Channeling the Spirit of the Hakawati Through Modern Hip-Hop

Little Syria. Big Heart.

The Sky We Dwell: Returning to Syria After a Five-Year Exile

Saad Choeb details his return to Syria after the fall of Assad through a diary entry and his artworks, as conduits for grief, identity, and reconnection

The Core of it All

Internet aesthetics as tools of resistance, from driftcore to corecore and other algorithmic undergrounds