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The Lebanese and Syrians have emigrated to prosperous pastures since long before the civil war, with some four million now in Sao Paulo alone. Arriving during the rubber boom, they intermarried and integrated, carrying their food with them.
With youth unemployment nearing 25 per cent in places, surviving the coming decade demands a surge of new jobs. For the region's healthcare pioneers, survival itself has become a market and creating jobs the mission.
Among the best-known names in bathroom fixtures and furniture, Duravit and sister company Hansgrohe are masters at persuading us to linger longer. Bespoke visits their Design Days in the sleepy southern German towns they call home.
LA’s Hotel Bel-Air boasts a devoted and publicity-shy clientele who appreciate the grand, exclusive sanctuary’s determination to fly under the radar. But following the hotel’s spectacular two-year, 100 million USD renovation, we just couldn’t resist blowing the historic hideaway’s cover…
Free, open and demanding nothing but an internet connection and remarkable self-discipline, MOOCs blend videos, podcasts, quizzes and global discussion. Our writer enrols to discover whether this dazzling array of tools truly delivers an education.
With Middle East youth unemployment at 26.4 per cent against a global 12.6, leaders from Tunisia to Oman are backing entrepreneurship and public-sector jobs. We ask whether small and medium organisations hold the answer.
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.