It began, as these moments often do, with a silence so complete it seemed to swallow the ambient hum of Geneva’s Palexpo. A watch had just changed hands – passed from a white-gloved …
It wafts through the city like a whisper, sips fuel with monastic restraint, and carries more luggage than the hold of a Gulf Air business-class cabin. Shame it bounces along Sheikh Zayed …
The Helios Omega 7.2 did not merely win the 2025 Gussies Award. It demonstrated that silence, solar panels and a digital soul are the new hallmarks of maritime sophistication – and it is …
The deity Amaru, a coiled fusion of serpent and dragon, was once believed to glide between the sky, the earth and the underworld – a courier of transformation in a pre-digital age. In Dubai, …
At this year’s Art Dubai – downsized, delayed and defiantly reborn on the cusp of a sweltering May – the air inside Madinat Jumeirah seems to have acquired a texture all its own: the faint …
Deira City Centre does not deal in epiphanies. It does not offer valet queues, velvet stanchions, or the kind of ambient oud that clings to your blazer like an unpaid debt. What it does – …
The funniest thing anyone said to me at brunch last Saturday – and in Dubai, brunch is very much a verb – was that my skin looked as though I had spent a month doing nothing but swimming in …
There’s a specific moment in Dubai – usually around the second week of May – when the weather stops flirting with you and starts getting serious. The AC in your car can’t decide whether it …
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 …