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For some, holidaying in the arctic in the depths of winter can be deemed a clear act of lunacy. But for Karim El-Imad it poses an opportunity to stay in Lapland’s famous Ice Hotel and enjoy the driving merits of the new Porsche Cayenne GTS.
Waiting for weeks to get an interview, Ceem Haidar speaks to Mohieddine Saleh Kamel about his family-owned media dynasty, life, luxury and the Arab world, in their brief chat over the phone.
At only twenty-eight, Boudour Hilali has established herself as a successful businesswoman. Sara Hamzeh nabs a rare interview with this unassuming entrepreneur.
In a nose-to-nose conversation, two master perfumers give highlights of what it feels like to design, sketch, and deliver a tailor-made 80,000 USD perfume. Riwa Beydoun talks to Cartier’s Mathilde Laurent and Jean Patou’s Jean-Michel Duriez.
The Face of Beauty By Monita Rajpal What makes a person look beautiful? Genetics? Clothing? Make-up? The beauty industry is a 200billion USD industry. The reason for the beauty industry’s success – all 200 billion USD of it – is simple. We're all looking for the next big thing, the one pro
With the latest in technology, luxurious living and the longest stretch of marine-facing retail in the world, The Pearl-Qatar is fast proving a hit with investors and individual buyers alike. Fiona Walshe visits the site of and discovers how man and the environment can create something tru
For centuries powerful men have tried desperately to keep information from lesser human beings. The best way to do that, they opined, is to tell it to a bunch of other likeminded people, and then swear them all to secrecy. When successful, we know not of their existence. When unsuccessful,
By Makram Salha Own Your Smoke Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And when it is a Cuban cigar, it is a lot more than that, according to my good friend and psychologist of choice to the Vatican and Italian courts, Salvatore Parisi. Recently, we happened to open the subject of bespoke cigar
By Sue Hostetler Synthesized World Man-made (adjective): made by humans rather than occurring in nature; made to imitate something else; of substances, made by chemical reaction rather than extracted from a natural source. Diamonds and polyester. It is seriously hard to imagine what these
There are many ways to pioneer the Arab spirit but none is as appealing as doing it with a sense of fun. Susan Day sat down with creator of the blockbuster comic The 99 that is riding the financial and creative crest of the Arab superhero phenomenon.
Sovereign wealth funds may only hold two per cent of globally traded assets but through rapid growth they are already as big as the global hedge-fund industry. Yet Helen Assaf reveals that unlike hedge funds, they are not driven by the pressures of profit and loss and are not constrained t
Genetic testing has allowed humankind to look at how he is made. Today, these tests are also allowing doctors and their patients to prevent the likelihood of genetic diseases. Fida Abi Karam reveals the latest trend in preventive medicine.