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.

Refractions Made through Mirrors: On Hussein Shikha’s Carpet Artistry

In richly woven carpets and pixelated dreamscapes, Iraqi-born artist Hussein Shikha finds a visual language to reanimate fractured histories

Paris Fashion Week SS26 Reminded Us Why Dressing Up Matters

Gender play, soft silhouettes, and the return of the tie

Precision with Purpose

A Richard Mille friend and culinary master, Christophe Bacquié, trades haute cuisine for heartfelt living in the Luberon 

My Name Is: The Power, Politics, and Poetry of Arab Names

When Mohammad becomes Moe... What does it mean to disown, distort, or anglicise our Arab names?

When Rock Music Echoed in Cairo: The Bands that Shaped an Era

Fady Nageeb explores Egypt's burgeoning rock and roll scene post the 1952 revolution, when pioneering bands embodied cultural change and rebellion