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Abdlatif Youssef Al-Hamad's career has glittered: an honours graduate of Claremont McKenna and Harvard, a Kuwaiti delegate to the United Nations, then Director-General of the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development and, briefly, a government minister.
Developer René Benko has redrawn Vienna's map with the Golden Quarter on Tuchlauben. At its centre stands the spectacular Park Hyatt, where our writer settles into one of its sumptuous suites.
High in Sursock Tower, an eighteen-floor Ashrafieh high-rise designed by the late Pierre Khoury, our writer meets its makers. The firm of Jamil Saab kept several floors of the building to serve as their corporate headquarters.
Founded in 1925 by engineers Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen in small-town Denmark, Bang & Olufsen built a reputation for media devices marrying striking design with engineering, fuelling enduring demand the world over.
At first glance, Laudi Abilama's vivid canvases could be mistaken for Warhol, until you notice the subjects: Faten Hamama, Omar Sharif, Umm Kulthoum and Fairouz, golden-age Arab stars rendered in bold pop-art colour.
Though it’s just as beautiful, Lake Garda never became the playground for the wealthy that its smaller neighbour, Lake Como, did. Yet, now that a handful of starchitects have teamed up to create a unique ensemble of stunningly beautiful and expensive homes, it looks as if the nature of …
In 2010, painter Nabil Nahas marked forty years of creativity with a retrospective at the Beirut Exhibition Centre. Remarkably, it was the prolific artist's first show at home, ending an eighteen-year absence from his country of birth.
It is not big brands, celebrity guests or social-media campaigns that move our restless writer to travel. In a word, he seeks authenticity, and finds it where places stay true to themselves.
The world of hotels could easily be categorised as BA (Before Aman) and AA (After Aman). With its pioneering strategy of creating stunning hotels in far-flung locations with limited rooms at high rates – discreetly advertised just by word-of-mouth – Aman resorts have forever changed Hot…
Rivals may carry more passengers or earn larger revenues, but Emirates has its own bragging rights. Profits leapt forty per cent last year on rapid expansion and cheaper fuel, served by an exceptionally young fleet and countless awards.
Australia is known for its beaches, laid-back spirit and wide open spaces, yet visitors invariably ask why the food, especially in Sydney, is quite so good. Start, as our writer does, with that famously diverse coffee culture.
Some cultures believe photographers steal their subjects' souls, and in a sense that is what Mustafa Sabbagh attempts. The Milan-based Palestinian-Jordanian artist strips away humanity's social veneer to reveal something deeper: man uncorrupted by civilisation.