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Alexandra Mansilla
Always searching for ideas, inspiration, and talented people. In love with cartoons, sun, and Ted Lasso
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Face To Know: Monira Al Qadiri, From Oil Drills To a Five-Metre Scarab
She turns the machinery and myths of the Gulf into sculptures you are unlikely to forget
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Looking Back At a Happier Syria With Photographer Hasan Belal
See what those old family photographs can tell us about everything that changed in between
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Your Week In Dubai: What To Do, September 15–21
Art, pasta, Kusama, and a very good party (actually, anti-party)
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New Space In Dubai: Beit Prod, a Nostalgia-Filled Showroom
From space-age furniture to old-school tech, every piece at Beit Prod is there for a reason
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Your Week In Dubai: What To Do, September 8–13
A fox-filled pastry pop-up, a listening night for people who actually want to listen, and more
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'distance minimaliste': Evenings for Music You Have Probably Never Heard Before
Come to hear music on a proper sound system and discover tracks that might otherwise stay buried in DJs’ and diggers’ collections
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Fuad And Raha, Duette+: “We Are Programming Reasons For People To Come Back”
How Raha and Fuad turned a private rooftop community into one of Dubai’s buzziest creative spaces
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Photographers Who Put Cats At The Centre Of Their Work
From cats telling stories of displacement to 116 street cats photographed in Tehran
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Your Week In Dubai: What To Do, September 1–6
A new wellness club, Scorsese at Cinema Akil, design finds, and pottery classes fill the week ahead
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A Different Way To See Cairo: Through Its Galleries
A route through the spaces where Egypt’s art history meets what is happening now
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From Olive Trees To Folktales: Palestinian Artists Exploring Heritage
How a place keeps living through image, story and form
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Meet Kem, the Fintech Rethinking Everyday Banking In the Gulf
What started as a frustration with sending money in Kuwait has grown into something much bigger
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The Rise of Mixed-Use Communities in Gulf Cities
From Dubai to Riyadh, a new generation of neighbourhoods is making everyday life a little less dependent on the car
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Your Week In Dubai: What To Do, August 25–30
This week starts with matcha and ends with match. Why not?
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Where Women Find Support In the UAE
Places that help women navigate change, uncertainty or a difficult chapter
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Why Bakery Culture Is Having a Moment Across the Middle East
And it is hard to argue with that. Because, really, who doesn’t love bread?
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Your Week In Dubai: What To Do, August 18–24
New coffee spots, big-screen classics and vinyl sessions
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Mehrdad Mosaferi: “I Don’t Want My Work to Pretend I Am Someone I Am Not”
How loss, the sea, and the people of the Persian Gulf shaped Mehrdad’s practice
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For Claudette: How Raya Kassisieh Keeps Her Grandmother’s Memory Alive
The true stories behind Raya’s masterpieces: Heavy Petals, Heavy Petals II, and Wharda
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Hotels That Celebrate Middle Eastern Design Instead Of International Luxury
Forget the marble lobbies: these stays find luxury in mud brick, stone, courtyards and centuries-old homes