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

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

Eurovision, Samira Said, and Morocco’s Unreceived Love Letter

Revisiting Morocco’s choice to perform at Eurovision in 1980, the first and last Arab country to do so, reveals a complex web of forces at play in our history, and a legacy that stands in evidence of a confused national identity, much less healed from colonial violation than it purports to be

Anatomy of a Manouche: When Akkawi Cheese is Hard to Come By

As people move, recipes travel with them – stretching, adapting and carrying the weight of memory, longing and belonging

Amine Houari and The Making of a City

Photographer Amine Houari has spent three years documenting the brutal urban transformation of Tangier, a city deconstructed and reinvented almost to the point of disappearance

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

In Retrospect: CINECommunity 2026 Brings Al Quoz’s Courtyard to AMT’s Showroom

For three days across 15th to 17th January, Advanced Media Trading’s biannual CINECommunity event reimagined cinema not as a product-driven industry, but as a collective practice.