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A whole new world Rana Salam is one of the top graphic designers to emerge from the Middle East. Her work celebrates Middle Eastern popular art and culture by merging vibrant Arab imagery with the latest technology to create a unique vision of graphic design and art direction. Her business
Palestinian talent, Mona Hatoum, is our region’s most distinguished installation artist. While mostly focusing on confrontational themes such as violence, oppression, and voyeurism, she has often made powerful references to the vulnerability and resistance of our human bodies.
On average, it is said that people are faced with at least 1,000 advertisements per day. Given this daily bombardment, how does any one of the millions of brands have a chance of standing out and gaining a loyal following?
A few days ago, a male friend of mine inquired as to whether women have been plotting a silent uprising to take over the world from the comfort of hair salons. My mind immediately turned to the smaller scale Skull and Bones society that began in Yale University in 1832. Men, seated undergr
Team: Fadi Baki, Hatem Imam, Omar Khouri & Lena Merhej Samandal comics have released their second edition. The creative team behind the project draws on the fact that they were “bitten by radioactive comic bugs at an early age,” in order to produce first-class, trilingual, cartoon-strip bo
Message in a Bottle Scented oils, fragrances and ointments have always been a large part of many cultural rituals. Great civilisations such as the Mesopotamians, the Egyptians and later the Greeks and Romans burned incense during various ceremonies and used all kinds of perfumed oils and c
Patchi, founded by Nizar Choucair over 25 years ago, is a phenomenal success story of one man’s ambition and his ability to give back to his community. To get to grips with this Lebanese company, that is now amongst the top chocolatiers in the world, Bespoke took a tour of the company’s ma
The New Year in film always opens up with awards season reaching fever pitch. Nominations for The Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild, BAFTAs and Academy Awards raised a number of tantalising prospects this year: a posthumous award for Heath Ledger’s joker; a first Globe or Oscar for Kate W
Joe Ghanem, or “Smokin’ Joe” as he has been fondly nicknamed on the circuit, is not your average 18-year-old racing driver. This one might just have what it takes to crack into the pinnacle of motorsport racing, Formula One.
At the age of four, Guy Manoukian began playing the piano. By six he had made his first television appearance and at seven he was invited to play his own composition before heads of state. Some years later, the composer came face to face with warranted success.
Aesthetically-pleasing fusions of Latin America and Arabia, come to life in the rare paintings of Latifa Al Sowayel.
Welcome to the 12th edition of Bespoke, indisputably one of the most important we have created. In the relatively short time we have been in production we have been responsible for a number of firsts. We were the original Pan-Arab magazine. By ignoring critics who told us we could not targ