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It’s hard to believe Instagram was launched only eight years ago. Before that, “no filter” was an expression used to describe a loose-lipped party guest, and “blessed” was how you felt inside when something really good happened. There were no “Followers” and “Influence…
Inflation, salaries, property maintenance, upgrades, introducing new curricula, let’s be honest, running an institute of higher education is very expensive. You can turn to tuition fees and alumni associations, revenues from intellectual properties and, if you have a healthcare arm, hos…
If you happened to be looking for a rock archetype you’d be hard pressed to find a better specimen than Faris Badwan. The lead singer of hard-to-describe British five-piece The Horrors, is a sort of Gothic Mick Jagger with more swagger – tall, thin, a big mop of black hair framing his b…
There’s something about meeting Salwa Chalhoub that gives you an irrepressible urge to collect art. She floats into the three-storey Opera Gallery in Downtown Beirut with her long dark silky smooth hair and the rhetoric of a young, cool and seemingly seasoned capitalist, and of course y…
DJ Khaled is a Grammy-award winning Palestinian-American record producer, radio personality, DJ, record label executive, and author with seven million followers on Instagram. He’s big, he’s loud and the world is listening. There are many cultural phenomena historians will struggle to ex…
Byblos is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, and Alice Eddé is the unlikely American determined to ensure no one forgets its extraordinary past, making heritage fresh and relevant once again.
Visa pour l'Image returns for a twenty-ninth year, gathering the finest photojournalism from around the world. Among the standout works at the South of France festival, a timely reminder of the human cost of war in Iraq.
Lalique's owner and chief executive, Silvio Denz, is making crystal cool again through contemporary collaborations and an inspired jewellery collection, with projects from Damien Hirst and Zaha Hadid bringing a fresh take to a traditional technique.
On Twitter (where she has 7.1 million followers), she describes herself as “a mum and a wife with a really cool day job”. That job is being queen and she looks the part with her fabulous designer clothes, long glossy hair and teeny-tiny waist. Her Instagram account (3.5m followers) ofte…
Jeff Koons is the most successful American artist since Andy Warhol, and this is a very brief but beautifully put together documentary about him. Narrated by Scarlett Johansson, the video was commissioned by MOCA Los Angeles for their 2017 gala honouring the artist.
Could it be the smoked salmon? The citizens of Norway are the happiest in the world – at least according to the index published in the World Happiness Report by the United Nations. Despite what we’ve heard about the benefits of Omega-3s, researchers in fact attribute the high level of h…
WHEN DID YOU GET INTO CLIMBING? I grew up in Saudi until I was 16 at which time I moved to the UAE to go to university. I then got a job in Dubai at an advertising agency and it wasn’t until I was 25 that I got into climbing. That’s considered pretty late yet, […]