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Born in 1900 to help motorists find food and lodging across France, the Michelin Red Guide has become the world's most powerful authority on restaurants and hotels, and a chef's most coveted accolade.
An undifferentiated stem cell can, in theory, become any tissue the body needs. Harvested from bone marrow or fat, its potential applications are legion, from aiding chemotherapy recovery to treating degenerative neurological disorders.
Anna Karenina's famous opening, that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, frames our writer's argument. Family businesses, like Tolstoy's families, tend to command attention precisely when their fortunes falter.
The company bears one name, but the business is very much three. For Azza Fahmy, working alongside her two daughters proves the whole is greater than its parts, marrying traditional handcrafted jewellery with a thoroughly contemporary outlook.
Practicing interior design and architecture out of the same office, professions as separate as they are entwined, Dada & Associates and TheOtherDada operate in a way that is interdependent but independent. audience signals @ambrouille As family businesses go, the Dadas rather break …
At first sight, you’ll never guess that Marianne Hoayek is the right hand of one of the world’s strongest and most respected central bank governors. Ignore those good looks and youthful exuberance because underneath lies a powerfully intelligent and determined person. Marianne Hoayek ma…
I once thought fear would grow more familiar with age. Yet as time wears on, it morphs like mercury in the mind, slipping quietly into spaces and filling them with cold, metallic trepidation.
Ethereal women dominate Hayv Kahraman's paintings. With a style revealing Persian, Japanese and Italian influences, the 33-year-old Iraqi artist creates works as beautiful as they are unsettling, obsessed above all with billowing black hair.
From Tunisia's congested streets to an abandoned Star Wars set in the desert, graffiti artist eL Seed has carried his work to Doha, Jeddah, Paris and New York, identifiable by its literary references and distinctive, unfurling Arabic lettering.
With high collars, plunging backless dresses, tailored cropped tops and smart tuxedo jackets, Karoline Lang’s designs are refreshingly un-Middle Eastern, and even her branding doesn’t give the game away. She does in fact hail from Beirut and is definitely a talent to watch out for. By t…
Saudi-born designer Hatem Alakeel wants us to rethink thobes, suits and womenswear. With his fresh take on traditional dress, he breaks new ground this year, showing for the first time at London Collections: Men.
He may eschew 3D renderings in favour of models, yet Paul Kaloustian's work is decidedly contemporary. His low-slung, muscular houses, built around open-air gravel courtyards, offer a fresh take on the region's vernacular architecture.