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CEO Sami Khoreibi sheds light on how solar power is taking over the grid. His company, Enviromena, is spearheading the way for this hot technology in the Middle East. The future is now, according to Sami Khoreibi, CEO of Abu Dhabi-based Enviromena. With a growing list of large-scale sol…
Credited with over 3,500 inventions and still going, our subject reflects on a lifetime of relentless ideas, dwarfing even Thomas Edison's tally, and recalls the boyhood spark that started it all.
War, terror, people smugglers, storms, nothing could get between Syrian swimmer Rami Anis and his dream of sporting glory. Meet one of the athletes who competed in the Refugee Olympic Team in Rio 2016. Rami Anis rolled to one side of his single, carelessly made bed, then to the other. H…
Unbelievably, it has already been 20 years since one of the world’s greatest fashion powerhouses, Milanese duo Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, ventured into the world of menswear. In honour of their one-fifth century, Bespoke was granted access to the industrious pair. “It’s the end…
James Clar emerged in Dubai as a prominent figure in the contemporary art scene, building his reputation as a creative master of neon light and technology. Now based in Brooklyn, New York, the artists’ star is rising as he capitalises on a generalised hunger for conceptual works that me…
CNN Style's Stephy Chung meets the German architect inside his pixelated, seventy-seven-storey tower, now Bangkok's tallest, as Ole Scheeren reflects on his uncanny ability to see a finished building long before it rises.
On a humid June evening at Beirut's Hotel Le Vendome, our writer's discomfort melts away before the inimitable charm of Amr Koura, a rare quality in the cutthroat worlds of film and television.
Turkey's Sancaklar Mosque sheds architectural cliché entirely. This sleek, minimal house of Islamic worship, with its cast concrete walls and cave-like prayer hall, almost vanishes into the landscape, quietly redefining the religious gathering place we thought we knew.
With so many social media stars turning fashion designer it’s hard to filter the good from the bad. Dubai-based Mariam Yehia caught our attention for all the right reasons. Wearing a fitted purple Lakers tank and little makeup, Mariam Yehia at first doesn’t look anything like the colour…
In his first interview in years, John Galliano talks to Claudia Croft in London about his new life and creative role at Maison Margiela, the former Dior designer ready, at fifty-five, to speak again.
Gabriel & Guillaume is an ephemeral gallery of decorative arts that’s got eclecticism at its very core. Started by a Lebanese woman and a Frenchman, neither of whom are trained designers, it’s an unconventional business that has found success among a cultured customer base. Standing…
In the Arab world, conflict and poverty too often limit access to schooling. Maysa Jalbout, chief executive of a billion-dollar foundation, is determined to change that for thousands of struggling youths, one student at a time.