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Two hours off Abu Dhabi's Al Gharbia coast lies Sir Bani Yas, a sanctuary of rugged landscapes, a luxurious Anantara resort and spa, and a spectacular wildlife reserve, dating back four decades, teeming with endangered animals.
Saudi Arabia's oldest family business, the House of Alireza, traces its modest beginnings to the Jeddah import trade in 1845. Known locally as Beit Zainal, after founder Zainal Alireza, it grew into a global enterprise.
As the new Range Rover launches across the Middle East, Nicolas Shammas sets it against the original of forty years ago, charting just how far Land Rover has pushed the luxury SUV it effectively invented.
The earliest hotels were little more than inns where travellers and their pack animals could rest. We trace the moment more elaborate establishments emerged, places that set out, as we would say today, to be destinations.
At the northernmost tip of Queensland lies the Cape York Peninsula, the 'last frontier': remote, wild and cloaked in tropical rainforest where mountain reefs meet pristine beach. Battered by cyclones and floods, it hardly invites year-round living.
Flying to Dubai to spend New Year's Eve in a hotel of silk skirts, Venetian glass and gold-threaded bedspreads, our writer finds she no longer wishes to linger between unfamiliar sheets. They will simply pass through.
Dr. Anthony Atala is at the forefront of regenerative medicine. Along with his team at the Wake Forest Institute in North Carolina, he’s using 3D printing techniques to produce human organs in the lab, a technique that promises to revolutionise our ability to heal ourselves. In 2011, Dr…
London-based sculptor Arran Gregory applies faceted, mirrored surfaces to the forms of wild animals, yielding dramatic works that reflect both light and image. Alongside sits the Airocide, a purifier first designed for the Space Station.
Former deputy head of New Scotland Yard's Forensic Firearms laboratory, Brian Heard, warns most people are poorly prepared to defend themselves against even an amateur mugger, let alone a determined kidnapper, and shares essential survival strategies.
Pre-independence India was a treasure trove of the finer things, but preserving them is now an art. Where maharajas once traded Cartier watches, Bulgari jewels and Vuitton trunks freely, holding onto such artefacts has become far harder.
Nassim Taleb, the controversial thinker who predicted the 2008 financial crisis hates bankers, academics and journalists. He also eats like a caveman and goes to bed each day at 8pm. Intrigued, we took the risk of meeting him. How much does Nassim Taleb dislike journalists? Let me count…
Sebastião Salgado’s journeys have taken him to the farthest reaches and most remote communities of the planet and the photographs he’s brought back tell tales of humanity in all its wonder. With his latest book ‘Genesis’, the Brazilian photographer presents an intimate portrait of our w…