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One ill-judged gesture, chopsticks left standing upright in a bowl of perfectly good noodles, turns a dinner date awkward, as our writer learns just how loaded the rules of the table can be.
Asked once whether he would give up eating if he could, our writer thought the question insane, unwilling to trade his quinoa salads for anything. Yet it lingers during the search for a quick, cheap Beirut lunch.
Raised among hardbound classics, airport paperbacks and Booker shortlists, and schooled at a Steiner school that forbade reading before six, our writer reflects on the eclectic library that shaped a lifelong love of stories.
Few luxury brands ever attain acknowledged supremacy, yet ask anyone versed in superyachts who builds the finest and one name resounds: Feadship. In this rarefied world, where Boat International ranks the largest vessels, size still matters enormously.
Born the eldest of six in a middle-class Peruvian family, Mario Testino's outrageous sense of style courted trouble at home before London and New York beckoned. As he puts it, imagine David Bowie walking through Rome.
Our writer learned to tell time by the grandfather clock that tick-tocked in the family living room, rewarded with a sturdy Timex. Then came the manned space missions, and Omega watches strapped to astronauts bound for the moon.
A. Lange & Söhne's annual output may equal just five per cent of Richemont sibling Cartier's, but that troubles this fine German watchmaker not one iota, devoted as it is to impeccable construction and obsessive precision.
Holding around fifteen per cent of the world's natural gas reserves, Qatar is the largest exporter of LNG. As Austen might note, a nation in possession of such fortune is busily finding ways to spend it.
Refusing to specialise, this gallery hangs modern beside contemporary and emerging beside established, pairing twentieth-century masters such as Renoir, Matisse, Dalí and Picasso with Takashi Murakami, Andy Warhol and even celebrated graffiti artists.
In 2010, painter Nabil Nahas marked forty years of creativity with a retrospective at the Beirut Exhibition Centre. Remarkably, it was the prolific artist's first show at home, ending an eighteen-year absence from his country of birth.
When it comes to Arab titans of business, we’re all familiar with the Ghosns, Slims and Hayeks of this world. I would assume you’re also aware of others like Lubna Olayan and Nemir Kirdar. You may even know that Steve Jobs is among our greats given that he was the biological son of a Sy…
Daimler's first attempt to revive Maybach was an uncharacteristic failure. Spurred on when rivals split up England's icons, sending Bentley to Volkswagen and Rolls-Royce to BMW, Stuttgart found itself playing catch-up with its dormant pre-war marque.