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Half the World
Walking along the banks of the Zayandeh River, taking in the views of the city’s numerous bridges and surrounded by stunning architecture from its many places of religious worship it is easy to see why Esfahan has been labelled the Florence of the Middle East. But an Iranian tour guide speaking to a small…
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Sunny Street Day
Last week, Tunisia saw its first street art festival take place in the capital, Tunis. Sunny Street Day, on May 13th, was a 12-hour festival celebrating art, music, dance and poetry. With the aim to unite a wide spectrum of artists who wouldn’t normally interact, organisers Quinta Communication Productions drafted in the help of…
One of the founders of The Third Line, Sunny Rahbar has made a conscious effort in promoting art from the region together and creating a platform where Middle Eastern artistic talent can be nurtured.
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Grassroots Music
Music, for the DJ, radio presenter and producer Dany Neville, is something that runs in his veins. His childhood was filled with sounds, from 1990s hip-hop and rap to Arabic music from decades past. He studied to be a recording engineer in Ohio and landed his first radio internship at the age of 18.…
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Art in Spaces
Mohamed Abla, an Egyptian-born artist who rose to fame for his method of combining European and Egyptian style painting, was the perfect choice for the opening exhibition of Artspace London. The gallery, which opened this week is the new addition to the Artspace family, which began in Dubai’s financial district. ‘We’ve worked with Mohamed since…
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Painting The Town Multi-Coloured
The rise of street art in the Middle East has become a major talking point all over the world. Typically, it has been for political reasons and often used as a tool for vandalism, but in Amman various groups are trying to promote graffiti as a decorative art form that needs to be properly understood.…
Brownbook + Samsung
Function & Creativity – A Brownbook and Samsung Galaxy Note collaboration. We speak with four creative people based in Dubai; Cyril Zammit, Fair Director of Design Days Dubai; Qais Sedki, author of the Gold Ring; Fashion Designer Tamara Al Gabbani and Pop Artsist Khawla Al Marri. They talk about how innovation and creativity inspires them…
Urban Series | Kamal Mouzawak
Practising an agenda of food and the ensuing power it holds, Kamal Mouzawak has taken to expanding the food horizons of those around him. With this in mind, we find food as we know it offering much more than the sole purpose of sustenance.
BlackBerry + Brownbook
Three influential artistic personalities talk about their passion for aesthetics, quality and creativity, coinciding with the launch of the new BlackBerry Porsche design phone, the P’9981 – the quintessential smartphone for the elite.
Super Cool
From its white-washed cuboid base on the banks of the Bosphorus – more of which later – architectural outfit Superpool use good design to solve social issues. A case in point is their launderette project in the predominately Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, 100km from the Syrian border. A spate of young female suicides caused the…