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A little over 12,000 kilometres separate the Dolby Theatre (home of the American Academy Awards) from the village of Masafer Yatta in the West Bank. When it was announced that the best documentary award went to ‘No Other Land,’ about the brutal displacement of Palestinian villagers by t…
The name Emmanuelle was forever changed by cinema – following the release of the 1974 soft porn film, it became the byword for desire, forbidden lust and fancy wicker furnishing. For those of a certain age the name still carries those connotations, but now the award-winning director Aud…
The celebrated Valencian architect reflects on the circumstances that shaped his career, from attending art school aged eight to his ambitions for the School of Beaux Arts and the move that took him to Zürich.
Nearly seven years after founding La Revêche, creative director Sara Melis explains her ambition to move swimwear beyond the merely functional, introducing sophisticated pieces that make wearers feel beautifully dressed up for the beach.
The Saudi art scene is booming right now, but behind the hot-topic exhibitions and international showcases are some incredible curators such as Jumana Ghouth, who has put together a multitude of shows over the years, from thought-provoking spotlights on single artists to large group sho…
Speaking from her home in Cairo's leafy Maadi suburbs, the twenty-seven-year-old model-turned-actor proves utterly singular. Wrapped in faux fur against a cloudy morning, Heba El-Dessouky is happy in her own skin and would rather cook dinner.
The first woman to model in a hijab on major runways reflects on leaving the industry behind. Models are disposable and replaceable, she says, so she chose to replace modelling with something altogether better.
The celebrated creative director speaks candidly about reconciling a glamorous career with a deliberately simple life in Nettuno, the seaside town where he and his wife grew up and chose to raise their own children.
Lyna Khoudri has her work cut out for her in Wes Anderson’s ‘The French Dispatch’. In the king of kook’s latest film, a love letter to journalism, France and all things quintessentially Anderson, the little-known French-Algerian actress first has to stake a claim for herself in an insan…
“What I love about poetry is the freedom that comes with the page and what you can do with the blank spaces. You can do almost anything – even defy the confines of grammar – it’s like the abstract art of the literary world,” says Danielle Badra, the latest winner of the Etel Adnan Poetr…
“A fikra started while I was living in New York,” says Mikey Muhanna, who grew up in an expatriate community in Cyprus before attending high school in Lebanon and then moving to the U.S. for college, where he remained for another ten years after graduation. “Its genesis was born out of …
It’s crazy to think that Greta Thunberg, the Swedish environmental campaigner and pioneer of the school strike movement, is already 18. It feels like only yesterday that she appeared on the international stage – an impish 15-year-old prophet of doom telling world leaders they were steal…