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

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 Self and the Corporate Agenda Hiding Behind the Mirror

Self-acceptance, self-help, self-actualisation, self-care, self-esteem, self-love, self-made, self-motivation, self-preservation, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficient, self-stimulation, self-worth… The self is anti-human.

After Its Dubai Debut, Fujifilm Short Film Festival Heads to Nairobi, Beirut, Cairo, and Jeddah

Fujifilm, Cinema Akil, and Gulf Photo Plus champion short-form cinema as a space for new voices, dialogue, and discovery

The Record Shows: The Story of Baidaphone

How a Beirut label captured the first voice of the Arab world

9 MENA Jewellery Brands You Need to Know

Just in time for holiday shopping

LifeCycle of a Symbol: Are our icons flattening us?

Power Adapters and the Power of Adapting 

Dia Mrad in conversation with Mariana Wehbe, moderated by Sami Abd Elbaki