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In July of this year Abu Dhabi’s Aabar Investments announced the acquisition of a 4.99 per cent stake in Italy’s biggest bank, UniCredit SpA, taking advantage of the weak Euro and securing the investment at an equivalent cost of 2.48 billion USD. The company had initially invested in the b
Wherever we go, wherever we look we are inundated with messages. We don’t have to think for ourselves. All we need do is sit on our sofa and be told how to live our lives. From how to look, what to wear, what to eat, what our homes should look like, how to meet people and what to drive, ev
Tequila Punta Del Este, Uruguay Most of the clubs in Punta del Este’s La Barra change ownership every year, making each summer’s hot spot a wild card. The exception: Tequila, which remains magically hip season after season. There’s just a cosy single dance floor with red and black booths b
There are certain things every man should own, the staples that make an outfit and hint at a certain level of sophistication. They’re the items that separate you from the hoi polloi and around which everything else hangs.
Private jets are like superyachts in that the only thing better than owning one is when you’re good friend does. But no matter how close you are to the big honcho, when your invitation to ditch the hoi polloi finally arrives you’d better be on your best behaviour because if you aren’t – th
The French in the 18th century had an illogical mind set as they believed that each testicle in a male contained gender-specific sperm: In other words, girls came from the left and boys came from the right. It was believed to such an extent that men who wanted a boy were encouraged to tie
Location: Lebanon Who: Founder of the Beirut Marathon It has been said out of adversity comes opportunity and May El Khalil, founder of the Beirut Marathon, is a striking example of this. El Khalil had always run, both in her native Beirut and while living for 23 years in Lagos, Nigeria. B
Cairo-born Karim Rashid is the world's most prolific contemporary industrial designer, his projects spanning interiors, fashion, furniture, lighting, art, music and installations. Bespoke seizes the chance to pick the superstar designer's restless, far-ranging brain.
Across the world medical practitioners from the Middle East are making a name for themselves at the cutting edge of the profession. Here, Bespoke takes a look at some of the most prominent Arab physicians.
Few people can recount how Middle Eastern advertising first took off like Ramsay Najjar. A former President of the Advertising Agencies Association, founder of Saatchi & Saatchi Levant, and current chairman of Strategic Communication Consultancy (S2C), Najjar divulges all.
It has been just over 15 years since text messaging was first made available to mobile phone users. Today, billions of text messages fly through the airwaves each and every day, forming a bedrock of revenue and profit for the world's telecommunications companies. The widespread usage of te
This past May the birth control pill celebrated its 50th anniversary. Created in 1960, the birth control pill, often called just the Pill, works by suppressing ovulation through the use of oestrogen or a combination of oestrogen and progestin so that the ovaries don’t release an egg that c