Following Traces: Anthony Bourdain, Food, and the Politics of Travelling with Care 

Anthony Bourdain arrived in Beirut in 2006 to film a food show. Two days later, Israel bombed the city. The footage, and the Emmy nomination that followed, say something uncomfortable about the Western appetite for Arab tragedy on television. On food, travel, and the difference between loving a place and consuming it

My Favourite Neuroses: Mapping the Ecstasy and Comedown of Romance Across the Arab Love Song

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

SLOP IS THAT DEEP

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

What Fashion Brands Brought to Milan Design Week 2026

Baskets, trunks, tomato chairs, and woven light

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

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

The Best Watch Iterations from Watches & Wonders 2026

If it ain't broke...