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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
The Date Palm Had One More Thing to Give, and Datecrete Has a Seoul Design Award Prize to Prove It
A stubborn little seed, an unlikely experiment and years of material research. Datecrete Studio & Lab challenges what we consider waste and what we imagine architecture could become
Richard Mille: Ancient Past to Feat of Engineering
Beneath the beauty of a gem-set object lies a story of engineering, where centuries of craftsmanship meet extraordinary technical precision. At Richard Mille, this ancient craft challenges the very limits of what gem-setting can achieve
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
Ugliness Looks Back
From a 1960s Iranian leper colony to Kim Kardashian's surgeon, tracing how "ugly" became a diagnosis to be cured rather than a way of being seen
The sky held it, the earth remembered: A moving memoir of scale, loss and time
At Ishara Art Foundation, Rohini Devasher, Shahana Rajani and Sarker Protick trace ecological change from the cosmos to a drowned delta to the streets of Dhaka, asking what it means to grieve a landscape on a human scale
This Film Festival is Taking SWANA Cinema from Beirut to Rome for Its Second Edition
Half film festival, half fundraiser, Here & Elsewhere returns for its second year in Beirut and Rome with a programme built around memory