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Middle East-Based Yamsafer is Where You Might Get the Best Hotel Rates
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Middle East-Based Yamsafer is Where You Might Get the Best Hotel Rates

Don’t get het up about our region’s poor infrastructure and political roadblocks: Palestine-based accommodation booking startup Yamsafer demonstrates success comes down to simply zoning in on opportunity. You might wonder why Yamsafer would want to compete against existing hotel booking…

21 Feb 2019 By Official Bespoke 3 min

Rawabi is the First Privately Planned and Built City in Palestine’s West Bank
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Rawabi is the First Privately Planned and Built City in Palestine’s West Bank

Looking to invest in real estate? How about a prime piece of land surrounded by mountains and trees in sunny Palestine? Even better, how about a newly constructed, upscale pied-à-terre, just steps away from the country’s only outdoor shopping mall where you’ll find all your family’s fav…

11 Feb 2019 By Official Bespoke 6 min

Tania Fares Plans To Make the Middle East a Fashion Hub With Fashion Trust Arabia

Tania Fares Plans To Make the Middle East a Fashion Hub With Fashion Trust Arabia

Having successfully propped up young British fashion designers since 2011, Tania Fares is now turning her attention to the Middle East with an initiative called Fashion Trust Arabia, and it’s got some lofty ambitions. And just in case you haven’t noticed, the region’s style seems to be …

29 Nov 2018 By Official Bespoke 5 min

Lebanon-Based Senteurs d’Orient is Taking its Luxury Soap Global
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Lebanon-Based Senteurs d’Orient is Taking its Luxury Soap Global

It’s been 18 years since Hana Debs Akkari launched Senteurs d’Orient’s divine collection of soaps, but the company’s founding principals are as fresh as ever. The bourgeoning brand was built on a reputation of making soaps the traditional way, using the finest natural ingredients and es…

11 Nov 2018 By Official Bespoke 3 min

Make Water out of Thin Air? This Company’s Tech Could Solve Global Water Shortages

Make Water out of Thin Air? This Company’s Tech Could Solve Global Water Shortages

Zero Mass Water has the potential to change the lives of billions of people by using the power of the sun to make clean drinking water out of thin air. Have you ever wished you could make something appear out of thin air? Well that’s exactly what Cody Friesen did, as the founder and CEO…

24 Oct 2018 By Official Bespoke 4 min

Amazon's Relentless Rise Towards Becoming the Everything, Everywhere, Every Time Store
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Amazon's Relentless Rise Towards Becoming the Everything, Everywhere, Every Time Store

Second-guessing Amazon is a fool's game. Already the everything store, it is now the world's third-largest tech company by revenue, on course for two hundred billion dollars in sales, some five hundred million daily.

9 Oct 2018 By Official Bespoke 8 min

Hugh Hefner’s Youngest Son is on a Mission to Reinvent Playboy Magazine
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Hugh Hefner’s Youngest Son is on a Mission to Reinvent Playboy Magazine

How Cooper Hefner is reinventing the magazine in the era of #MeToo.

7 Aug 2018 By Official Bespoke 11 min

The Startup Digital Music Venture Anghami is Aiming to Revolutionise the Arab World’s Music Industry
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The Startup Digital Music Venture Anghami is Aiming to Revolutionise the Arab World’s Music Industry

Go inside the region’s new entertainment hub.

12 Jul 2018 By Official Bespoke 5 min

Here are the Top Six Reasons you Should Buy All Your Beauty Products From Lynn’s Apothecary
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Here are the Top Six Reasons you Should Buy All Your Beauty Products From Lynn’s Apothecary

This one-stop beauty shop by Lynn Khoury Soubra brings together the world’s most natural products so that you can rid your daily regimen of synthetic and chemical ingredients. 1. There’s a brick-and-mortar boutique in Saifi Village in Beirut but the website ships worldwide, and that mea…

30 Jun 2018 By Official Bespoke 2 min

Michael Bloomberg on Trump, Brexit and the Battle of the Billionaires
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Michael Bloomberg on Trump, Brexit and the Battle of the Billionaires

The world's tenth richest man, in the midst of a political renaissance, is touted as America's best hope of ousting Donald Trump in 2020. We met him on a recent trip to London.

8 Mar 2018 By Official Bespoke 4 min

Portside Founder Alek Vernitsky Takes the Headache Out of Private-Jet Ownership

Portside Founder Alek Vernitsky Takes the Headache Out of Private-Jet Ownership

A dinner-table grumble about the paperwork of flying private inspired the Harvard graduate to build a San Francisco platform that shows jet owners exactly where their money goes.

3 Mar 2018 By Official Bespoke 2 min

Prima Donna: Donatella Versace's Emotional Tribute to Her Late Brother Gianni

Prima Donna: Donatella Versace's Emotional Tribute to Her Late Brother Gianni

Twenty years after Gianni's murder, Donatella staged the tribute to end them all at Milan Fashion Week, summoning the original supermodels and resurrecting his greatest hits before a new generation.

31 Dec 2017 By Official Bespoke 2 min