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Time Tells Tales: What Your Watch Says About You
What can a watch reveal beyond the time? A quiet expression of cultivated taste, unspoken ambition, and the subtle art of making a statement without saying a word
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
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
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
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
Ten Artworks We Loved from the Inaugural 2026 Art Basel Qatar
The projects and moments that stood out
How Angus Maxfield Turned a WhatsApp Group Into Dubai’s Favourite Run Club
When your running plans finally make it out of the group chat. Exponentially.