It was a tall order if there ever was one: build a Louvre in the desert, in a city with a negligible tourism industry and a dubious (at least from a European perspective) cultural scene.…
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Taking its name from the Sanskrit word for peace, Aman, plus Pulo, which is Tagalog for island, Amanpulo in the Philippines may date back to 1993 but it’s still one of the world’s greatest island…
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There’s something about meeting Salwa Chalhoub that gives you an irrepressible urge to collect art. She floats into the three-storey Opera Gallery in Downtown Beirut with her long dark silky smooth hair and the rhetoric…
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Creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri is off with a bang with her first collection for Dior. For the Dior Spring 2017 collection, Maria Grazia Chiuri opted to give the iconic brand a well-needed makeover. It’s…
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With so many amazing watches around, it’s never an easy thing picking favourites. But if we had to put our money where our mouth is, then these are the watches we’d be buying right now.…
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Motorcycle brand MV Agusta has had a tough time of late. After facing mounting debts it was forced to implement a drastic company restructure and then lost its powerful minority shareholder, Mercedes-AMG, who clearly had…
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Inspired by power, Bahraini designer Sofia Al Asfoor defies convention and embraces luxury that goes the whole nine yards. “I created a handbag made entirely of crocodile leather, which is the most luxurious leather you…
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Saudi Arabia made history by becoming the first country to grant citizenship to a robot. The humanoid robot, named Sophia, held a press conference in Riyadh in front in front leaders of the country’s sovereign…
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The coconut palms chittered in the breeze. Wending down the hill from the Amanwella resort, I reached the beach, a curving strand of sugary sand that ended at a rocky promontory about a kilometre away,…
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Sitting in his small shop in the buzzing Mar Mikhael neighbourhood of Beirut, Ralph Masri seems awfully humble. It’s a sleek space, mostly black with little window vignettes that showcase his sparkly designs. Even the…
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