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The stratospheric ascent of Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons is bound to the rise of Dubai itself. Now the world's ninth largest importer of Swiss watches, with over fifty brands, the company began from decidedly modest beginnings.
Before computers numbed every sensation, sports cars spoke through your fingertips on a spirited drive. Even the most thrilling modern machines now mollycoddle us, yet every so often a new car rekindles the old magic.
Woken at half past two and forbidden the bedside lamp, our writer fumbles in the dark for a small receptacle to spit into. So begins a peculiar and revealing wellness regime.
"There's nothing more humbling than getting punched in the face," Bseiso admits. For five years she has trained, competed and taken knocks, returning them with astonishing speed and power between her presenting duties.
Thirteen years after its last all-new platform, Harley-Davidson's Street series marks a bold new direction. President Matthew S. Levatich calls it less intimidating and more inviting, a claim tested by one Arab woman biker.
Leafing through James Hilton's Lost Horizon as the Bosphorus glitters beyond the window, our writer discovers the Tibetan utopia that gave the Hong Kong hotel chain its evocative name, now reborn in Istanbul.
A new superyacht's renown usually tracks its length, yet with vessels over ninety metres now unremarkable, size is not everything. At just sixty-five metres, Heesen's outstandingly innovative Galactica Star stands out as our 2014 winner.
Slower than global markets to recover after the 2008 crash, the region's bourses saw turnover so thin that Gulf brokerages collapsed. Yet by 2013 Arab exchanges and their listed corporations emerged as surprisingly worthy contenders.
Victor Vasarely, Henry Moore, and Joan Miró, are names not normally associated with Jeddah, but they should be. Sculptures by these world renowned artists line the recently revamped Al Hamra Open Air Museum along the corniche leading to the culturally cool five star Park Hyatt Jeddah. C…
IDAM, Alain Ducasse's first Gulf venture, sits atop I.M. Pei's Museum of Islamic Art in Doha. With interiors by Philippe Starck, it is already proving one of the most popular restaurants in the region.
Approach the Wraith and its sheer enormity strikes first; photographs simply cannot convey how magnificently imposing it is. Then come the details, countless design delicacies merging into a whole that scarcely deserves the word automobile.
As luxury labels grow as ubiquitous as the high street, it is easy to forget their beginnings. Vuitton, Gucci, Prada and Cartier alike, our writer reminds us, all started life as small, family-run affairs.