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We round up the destinations no traveller should miss, beginning with London. Neither riots nor economic gloom can dent the imperial entrepot, and with the 2012 Olympics looming there has never been more afoot.
From Oscar Niemeyer's audacious National Congress in Brasilia onwards, we tour the landmark civic buildings where space and light, rather than decorative detail, prove to be the truest expression of luxury.
To walk along the Nile by Tahrir Square is to tread the heart of Egypt's revolution, where protests still draw thousands. Built by Khedive Ismail Pasha, these streets carry history in every stone.
From the buzzing, hopeful chaos of Tunis airport, the air thick with post-revolution urgency, we journey south to the desert oasis of Tozeur, seeking a Tunisia transformed at the very edge of change.
Geoffrey Wheel is as pleased as punch. Cracking jokes as he leads us through the stairways and public areas of Muscat's glittering Royal Opera House, the technical director shows a parent's pride in the project he has nurtured.
Getting lost in Fez is half the fun, but a few canny rules help. We share advice for navigating the meandering labyrinth of the world's largest medina, where every alley slopes towards a gate.
Sada took part in Iraq's pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale, only its second appearance after a thirty-five-year absence, with a panel and a film by Oday Rasheed on Baghdad's young artists. A Christie's benefit followed.
Stretching thirty kilometres along the coast, Greater Muscat is a string of seaside hubs, hilltop colonies and business districts linked by mountain expressways. Like Los Angeles, this is a city built for the car.
For twenty years its slopes were a battlefield between India and Pakistan; its storms and avalanches have claimed many lives. Bespoke takes on the audacious challenge of skiing the savage mountain itself.
When the Soma architects were commissioned to design a Muslim community centre in Lower Manhattan, they could not have foreseen the storm. Branded the ground zero mosque by a blogger, the project drew fierce dispute.
On a 2009 visit to the Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, Ramallah-based artist and curator Khaled Hourani had a wild idea. Hearing of the museum's global loans, he resolved that Palestine, too, should benefit.
A prosperous trading port by the tenth century, Murano had its own coins, police and aristocracy. In 1291 Venice ordered its glassmakers to relocate there, and they soon became the island's leading citizens.