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Unpredictable, whimsical and captivating – Bernard Khoury distorts conventional architecture with his evocative buildings. Meet the architect who’s rewriting all the rules of urban living.…
Paris-based designer Sasha Nassar is giving her Palestinian roots new life with a collection full of cultural references. But there’s not one traditional thing about it.…
This one-stop beauty shop by Lynn Khoury Soubra brings together the world’s most natural products so that you can rid your daily regimen of synthetic and chemical ingredients. 1. There’s a brick-and-mortar boutique in Saifi Village in Beirut but the website ships worldwide, and that means anyone can have access…
Listening to Yasmine Hamdan’s music, her soaring and unique voice and vocal style, reminds me of listening to John Coltrane blow his horn. When she sings – as when Coltrane plays sax – Hamdan improvises, she creates, and it comes from within. It’s her soul. It’s the one space, as…
Picture a successful fashion designer 50, 20 or even ten years ago, and you’d likely be thinking of a white man tailoring evening gowns in London or Paris. But today, one of the world’s most watched, most discussed designers is a black man from Chicago; the 37-year-old son of Ghanaian…
It’s only been five years since Khaled El Mays launched his own furniture design brand but he’s already garnered an incredible amount of coverage with features in Wallpaper, The Observer, The Financial Times’ How to Spend It and Architectural Digest. The Lebanese designer’s upcoming participation in Milan’s Salone del Mobile…
Any conversation of cryptocurrencies has to begin with an explanation of blockchain and why it’s so revolutionary. In essence, blockchain changes the way we transact with each other and allows us to move from a world of cloning (in which we have to make copies of files we want to…
Let’s take a moment to look into the not-too-distant future. Imagine that a robot has stolen your job and pushed you into a lower-wage occupation, if not out of the workforce altogether. Now, this isn’t science fiction, for a University of Oxford study estimated that due to advances in artificial…
It’s hard to believe Instagram was launched only eight years ago. Before that, “no filter” was an expression used to describe a loose-lipped party guest, and “blessed” was how you felt inside when something really good happened. There were no “Followers” and “Influencers” – words that sound rather sinister when…