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Danielle Arbid has a way of keeping you on your toes. Her 2008 video essay 'This Smell of Sex' deploys such forthright language that the room blushes, yet offers barely an image beyond archival photographs and blazing intertitles.
Born in Medina in 1958, Jamal Ahmed Khashoggi has long ranked among Saudi Arabia's most prominent and outspoken journalists. Now heading the nascent network Alarab, he weighs the proper remit of journalism in the Arab world.
Somewhere between Captain Nemo's Nautilus and a Star Wars escapee, the 42.5-metre Adastra looks science-fictional yet is gloriously real. Built for a Hong Kong businessman, it ranks among the largest trimarans ever launched.
Bespoke weighs the relative wealth of nations by their total reserves, the monetary gold and foreign exchange that underpin creditworthiness, and asks how long even the largest war chests can really last.
A former London English teacher, Layla Totah now holds sewing classes in her Beirut apartment, teaching everything from tote bags to tailored coats, all served alongside her own freshly baked breads and cakes.
Treasure hunting conjures buccaneers and daring adventure, yet for marine archaeology it means serious money. Eoghan Macguire meets Galleon Ventures founder Sean Tucker, who sees billions resting among UNESCO's estimated three million shipwrecks.
Invoking Ayn Rand's praise for the innovator who stands outside the stagnant status quo, we meet Rad Hourani, whose iconoclastic collections dissolve the boundaries of gender, time and race into honest self-expression.
As spring nears, our writer dreams of the Maldives, of azure ocean and white sand, of being nowhere at all. Yet such a paradise lies far closer, on a natural island just 500 metres off the coast.
Tall, urbane and crowned with a tarboush, the man Michael Karam calls 'The Lawyer' was irresistible. The encounter unfolds in a poorly lit Cairo antique shop, stuffed with deco furniture rescued from grand period houses.
Having her work disqualified from a prestigious prize run by Lausanne's Musee de l'Elysee might have dampened Larissa Sansour's spirits. Instead, the rejected series became the inspiration for the latest stage of her work, Nation Estate.
When a friend rang proposing the trip of a lifetime to Siberia, Anissa Helou could scarcely place Kamchatka on the map. Once a place of exile, its temperatures plunge below minus thirty degrees Celsius.
Furniture is meant to be used; now it can be read too. Kashida Design's recliners, mirrors, stools and even tissue boxes each form a single Arabic letter or word, from a heh-shaped mirror to a meem lounge chair.