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WHEN DID YOU REALISE YOU COULD BE A PROFESSIONAL SINGER? -I never realised I could be one, I just followed my heart and my intuition. I always loved music and the arts and it is something I grew up learning and nourishing culturally and technically. The turning point though was when I m…
As private firms reach for orbit and NASA finds seven Earth-sized planets, Taschen's exhaustive Moonfire reflects on the giant leap the Apollo 11 astronauts took almost fifty years ago.
WHEN DID YOU REALISE YOU WANTED TO BE A JOURNALIST? I’ve always been that kid who asked questions, only to get answers that would prompt ten more questions. In the summer of 1990, my family flew from Kuwait to Berkeley, California for a summer vacation. A few weeks later, Saddam Hussein…
Since Christie's opened its regional hub in Dubai over a decade ago, semi-annual auctions of regional art have helped the Middle East account for eight per cent of the firm's global turnover. What lies behind the boom?
Two minutes into Mountain View, our writer spots his first driverless pod gliding through rush hour, ignored by blasé commuters, a fitting welcome to the boomtown heart of Silicon Valley.
Bespoke breaks its own rule against the interview format, gathering a hand-picked cast — a journalist, a designer, a Bugatti man, a singer, a mountaineer and a hotelier — to reveal what each finds truly indispensable.
The Kuwait-born, California-raised and Brooklyn-based designer makes furniture and objects that defy categorisation, moving from acoustics to medical-inspired provocations while rejecting both the millennial tag and the expectations placed on Arab art.
CL is a young South Korean singer making music the millennial way, with millions of followers on social media. But making it in the brick-and-mortar world brings a whole different set of challenges.
At just 28, the Syrian-Lebanese economist and activist has built the Sawa Foundation on dignity and ownership, drafting laws and rallying donors to support refugees the world too often forgets.
Seemingly overnight, Jim Chapman has become one of the internet's most popular stars. His good looks and boundless enthusiasm for daily life have placed him on a short list of men dominating the social media sphere.
Nadine Ghaith examines a multicultural, multilingual generation that has shed the religious and political labels it inherited. Exposed to turmoil rather than sheltered from it, these Middle Eastern millennials see the world quite differently from Western peers.
A sobering back-page reckoning with the Syrian conflict, marshalling UN and World Bank figures on the dead, the displaced and the impoverished to insist that the world's worst humanitarian crisis cannot be looked away from.