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Posted in News, For Fuad Ali, movement is often where ideas begin to make sense. “When I struggle on ideas, I’ll go for a run,” he says. “An hour later, I clear up some of these problems that I have, and I can come back and finish it.” As co-founder and creative director of Duette Studio, Ali has built a practice around creating experiences that people don’t simply look at, but move through and connect with.

Posted in Feature,  Balanced Days Engy Mahdy likes to be outside. The Dubai-based designer, artist and educator runs four times a week, rides horses three or four times and gets on her bike whenever she can. It’s a routine that might seem at odds with the unpredictability of a creative practice, but for Mahdy, one enables the other. “I need structure in my life for me to be able to be chaotic in my work,” she says. Fashion has been a constant since she was young.

Posted in Feature,  Salman Alnajem For Salman AlNajem, making art has always been a way of making sense of things that are difficult to articulate. His work pulls from Khaleeji popular culture and the world immediately around him, but beneath those familiar references sits something less tangible. “My work also has a metaphysical aspect to it,” he says.

Posted in Life & Culture,  Futomama On Saturday, August 8th, one of Beirut’s worst-kept secrets made its way to Egypt. FUTOMAMA, the guest-list-only after-hours spot tucked behind a Japanese street-food counter, left Lebanon for the first time for a one-night takeover of Mariolino Beach House, Mario Jr. Haddad’s beach house in Ramla, Ras El Hekma, which has spent the summer bringing the best food and music to the North Coast.

Posted in Feature,  Jocelyne Saab Archivist and filmmaker Mohanad Yaqubi’s latest film, Revolutionaries Never Die, explores the collaboration that never happened between him and pioneering Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab. Beginning her career as a war reporter in the early 1970s, Saab spent 15 years documenting the Lebanese Civil War, making almost 30 films during that period before expanding her practice across fiction, photography and visual art.

Posted in Fashion,  Audemars Piguet At Moonrise in Dubai’s Satwa district, chef Solemann Haddad operates with the kind of intensity that only really comes from obsession. The Michelin-starred 15-seater has built its reputation on tightly choreographed service, technical precision and flavour combinations that feel deeply considered without ever becoming overworked. But for Haddad, the process matters as much as the outcome.

Posted in Art & Photography,  Interview Reema Almouh, Riyadh-based artist and graphic designer, wasn’t always an artist; Almouh’s interest in science is the framework for her practice in metal. Her work combines metal sculpture and the practice of scientific experiment, which she documents through photography, microscope slides, and zines. Reaction, malleability, and change of state are all central themes in her work.

Posted in Life & Culture,  Lebanon This is a long and winding water story that originally started as a joke between friends or, rather, a meme that reads “MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN”. The accompanying visual is an AI-generated MAGA hat floating atop an AI-generated glacier in an AI-generated image.

Posted in Art & Photography, 3 Images View More + نفسي اعرف هالدنيا وأنا حي واللي ما اجا عندي وأنا حي، ما أريده عند هيلات التراب. I wish to know of this world while I am still alive For whoever does not come to see me while I live, I don’t want them when the mounds of earth are [falling upon my body].

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