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California-based Dr. Molly Maloof wants to perfect people’s health and improve performance using the latest technology and a few unorthodox substances. Some cautionary advice: this may cause munchies. In terms of shaping the modern world, you could say that Silicon Valley is the world’s…
Known for her savvy political commentary and rhetoric on international news networks, Raghida Dergham is following up a stellar journalistic career with a turn on the other side of Middle East policy. The first time I met Raghida Dergham was at a summer party in the charming modesty of …
After almost three decades of being banned by FIFA and it might be just what the Arab nation needs to help turn the page on decades of war.
Unpredictable, whimsical and captivating – Bernard Khoury distorts conventional architecture with his evocative buildings. Meet the architect who’s rewriting all the rules of urban living.
Take a new look at Saudi cities.
Go inside the region’s new entertainment hub.
Paris-based designer Sasha Nassar is giving her Palestinian roots new life with a collection full of cultural references. But there’s not one traditional thing about it.
The Paris-based, Lebanese-heritage designer turns 1960s Riviera nonchalance and her father's white shirts into a timeless, chic and quietly subversive label that is already crossing continents.
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…
Listening to Yasmine Hamdan’s music, her soaring and unique voice and vocal style, reminds me of listening to John Coltrane blow his horn. When she sings – as when Coltrane plays sax – Hamdan improvises, she creates, and it comes from within. It’s her soul. It’s the one space, as a Leba…
Picture a successful fashion designer 50, 20 or even ten years ago, and you’d likely be thinking of a white man tailoring evening gowns in London or Paris. But today, one of the world’s most watched, most discussed designers is a black man from Chicago; the 37-year-old son of Ghanaian i…
It’s only been five years since Khaled El Mays launched his own furniture design brand but he’s already garnered an incredible amount of coverage with features in Wallpaper, The Observer, The Financial Times’ How to Spend It and Architectural Digest. The Lebanese designer’s …