Beirut-born chief executive Malek Sukkar speaks to me via video conference from his Dubai office looking ready to do business in a white shirt and dove-grey tie. It’s currently what he likes to call the…
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Elegant, irreverent, unapologetically pretty and devoid of conceptual gimmicks, Prada’s Spring/Summer 2020 women’s collection is a fabulous return to form for the Italian label. Indeed, Miuccia Prada even had a point to make about simplicity…
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Porsche’s Cayenne Coupé May Not Be So Different to a Regular Cayenne But It’s Still a Worthy Upgrade
The Cayenne Coupé is just like the Cayenne you know and love – but with a dropped roofline and a perky rear end. And thanks to those changes as well as a few subtle engineering…
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Following last year’s first edition of the music and culture festival at the Mada’in Saleh, Saudi Arabia is now betting big on cultural tourism with a handful of luxury hotels and a Jean Nouvel-designed resort…
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A silent Harley with no engine, fuel tank, oil, gearbox or exhaust? Welcome to the future. The LiveWire by Harley-Davidson is not only a very different kind of motorcycle, it’s going to need to save…
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How do you change the mindset and allow entrepreneurship to flourish in the Middle East? Amir Hegazi, a former director at Souq.com and the founder of intoMENA, thinks he has the answer. “I think what’s fundamentally…
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As recently as a decade ago, electric cars were perceived as glorified golf karts with as much personality as your household washing machine. But then Tesla came along and unleashed tantalising products such as the…
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With a plan to launch Libra in 2020, a cryptocurrency that could change global commerce and finance for good, there’s plenty for Facebook to be optimistic about. Ramez Shehadi is leading the company’s foray into…
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Crop One Holdings is bringing mass-scale vertical farming to the Middle East. The California-based company has inked a deal with Emirates that looks set to be a game changer in the region’s food supply. It’s…
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Such is the importance of the Gladiator to Jeep’s global customer base, and crucially not just its American one, that FCA (the acronym for the Italian-American Fiat Chrysler Automobiles corporation) thought fit to invite a…
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