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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
5 Young Arab Designers Who Refuse to Blend In
The emerging cohort of designers transforming raw material into a living temperament
HinDidi: When Bollywood Invited Algeria to Dance
In the aftermath of independence, Bollywood offered Algeria something revolution could not: the freedom to dream, to love, and to imagine a life beyond struggle. Decades later, one Indian film, Janitou, remains a tender relic of a future that never quite arrived
A Language Of Image: From Manuscripts To Meta-Algorithms
From Islamic manuscripts to Blender renders, the image of the Arabic language has always been built from overlapping histories and references. The designers pushing it forward today are proving that visual history is most useful when it becomes a tool for invention rather than nostalgia, and that the archive is not a repository of finished answers
Sauvage Extrait is Francis Kurkdjian’s Boldest Chapter Yet for Dior
Dior's first extrait de parfum for men
Meet the Initiatives Rethinking Syrian Craft
MSN3 DMSHQ and Syrian Crafts Council are working to rebuild what was lost before it disappears for good
Lotus Brings Its Fastest Four-Cylinder Car to the UAE
Lotus built a legend on the idea that less is faster. The Emira 420 Sport, now landing in the UAE through AGMC, is the clearest argument for that idea in a generation