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Forced to direct her actors from a production van in conservative Riyadh, Haifa Al Mansour keeps her sense of humour. She needs it: she still does not know how to screen her film where public cinemas remain illegal.
Bodies betray us in countless small ways, from uneven shoulders to a tilted pelvis. Warren Singh-Bartlett explains why Apsley, which tailors a bespoke suit in three affordable weeks, has earned our Ultimate Tailor award.
Fashion and architecture have long expressed the personal, social and cultural. Lately, both have moved beyond status towards complex questions of identity, as computer-aided design carries ever more intricate surfaces and unusual forms from the drawing board.
When interior designer Alberto Pinto passed away this November, he left behind a legacy of opulent homes, amongst them a magnificent villa in Kuwait completed in the final year of his accomplished forty-year career.
Chakib Richani is celebrated for his architecture, yet his custom-made furniture is sought after in its own right. Nadine Khalil enters the Lebanese architect's boutique to find pieces both bold and understated, monolithic and strikingly proportioned.
Winning pilots' loyalty is no easy task, for they scrutinise every trade-off in cost, safety and features. Since 1984, Minnesota-based Cirrus Aircraft, co-founded by the Klapmeier brothers, has devoted nearly thirty years to solving that challenge.
Not yet thirty, Sotheby's specialist Lina Lazaar Jameel has pushed contemporary Arab art to the fore of the global scene. Tunisian-born, Riyadh-raised and Geneva-schooled, she opens our conversation, improbably, with mathematics and the nature of truth.
Launched in 1999 as the seventy-metre Boadicea, then lengthened and lavishly refitted, this transformed vessel boasts five decks and a double-height atrium. We survey the breathtaking craft redefining life aboard the world's finest yachts.
From the Louvre to the Metropolitan and the Victoria and Albert, the great institutions have long guarded Islamic art's heritage. Now their gaze is shifting decisively towards the vibrant contemporary art of the region.
Founded by Saudi Arabia's deputy minister of defence, Prince Khaled bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the Living Oceans Foundation devotes its time and resources to conserving and restoring our increasingly stressed marine life.
At the heart of the Arabian Peninsula, the relentless sun shapes everything. Since 1976 the Riyadh Development Authority and architects AS&P have nurtured the Qasr al-Hokm district, honouring deep cultural, political and commercial tradition.
He deserves praise, even if he plainly dislikes it. In Medgulf's executive suite overlooking Solidere and the sea, John Andrews coaxes a reluctant Lutfi Fadel el-Zein to reflect on building the region's largest insurer.