Meet the Initiatives Rethinking Syrian Craft

MSN3 DMSHQ and Syrian Crafts Council are working to rebuild what was lost before it disappears for good

The Only Producer Who’s Ever Gotten Fairuz’s Blessing

Kanye did it. Drake did it. Madonna got sued $2.5 million for it. Only one producer has ever sampled Fairuz completely legally, and he's telling the whole story

Anatomy of a Manouche: When Akkawi Cheese is Hard to Come By

As people move, recipes travel with them – stretching, adapting and carrying the weight of memory, longing and belonging

Thus Spoke Jaden Smith

The new creative director of Christian Louboutin paints the town red

Watching From the Sidelines

Why I watch the world cup If I don't really care about football

Take Me Back To Monaco: Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo

Ahmed Emad and the Path of Desire

A desire path is an unofficial route formed when people choose the shortest, most instinctive way between two points, favouring lived experience over prescribed design. It is a path made by repetition, conviction, and quiet resistance. Based between Abu Dhabi and Sharjah, Ahmed Emad’s journey follows a similar logic. A Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate, former museum educator at Louvre Abu Dhabi, he is currently the Public Programming Specialist at the highly anticipated Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

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