The invitation promised cocktails and canapés. The only thing anybody was hungry for was a square metre of floor space. In a city where a property signing usually comes with a light show, a …
A confession: I have, on more than one occasion, spritzed myself with a facial mist and called it “layering”. In Dubai, where your skin drinks faster than you can at a Friday brunch, we have …
A particular kind of fatigue attends today’s media landscape: a churn of algorithmically flattened headlines, hot takes that expire within minutes, and a wearying sameness that suggests a …
There are collaborations that feel engineered in a boardroom, and then there are those that seem to unfold like a sentence you didn’t know you were waiting to finish. The Boss Summer Club – …
The transformation arrived without warning, as all cultural shifts do. One moment, a Dubai bathroom shelf curates itself like a modern apothecary – a meticulously layered installation of …
The first time Safwan Dahoul’s work dismantled me, I was stone-cold sober, caffeinated on a flat white I had grabbed between meetings in Alserkal Avenue, and entirely unprepared for the …
It begins not with a sound but with a betrayal of physics: the duvet that was, hours earlier, a sanctuary of crisp cotton turns silently mutinous, conspiring with the Gulf’s humidity to …
It was in this precise quality of stillness, the kind that seems to hold its breath between the desert and the sea, that I first held The Unique Falcon of the Emirates. Not the bracelet, nor …
Alserkal Art Month 2026 is the Gulf’s most ambitious cultural programme yet. Here’s why it matters – and why the timing couldn’t be more loaded. Alserkal Art Month runs …
There comes a point in every discerning traveller’s trajectory – somewhere between the fourth aggressively “curated” poolside DJ set and the realisation that your “wellness shot” tastes …