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Little Secret
Amsterdam’s Arab diaspora is just one of the city’s steady influx of communities over the centuries. It’s not surprising to see the prevalence of Middle Eastern culture throughout the Dutch capital,...
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Louis, Louis
Is personal shopper, stylist and blogger Louis Philippe De Gagoue the most colourful man in Casablanca? Who is Louis Philippe De Gagoue? An unknown blogger with a big wardrobe and too much time on...
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Malmö
Across the öresunds Bridge from the Danish capital of Copenhagen you'll find Malmö, the third largest city in Sweden. Malmö is a rapidly changing city and over the past 30 years it's grown by over...
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The Modern-Day Alchemist
Boris Bidjan Saberi regularly hits the headlines for his avant-garde menswear, but the designer's Barcelona studio is strictly down-to-earth On the outskirts of Barcelona in Montserrat, away from the...
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Ara the What?
LA-based t-shirt designer Keegam Shamlian is a man on a mission: to make Armenia cool We may be able to credit the Kardashians with making Armenia a trending topic, but the country has much more to...
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Office Space
The offices of Bilsar, in Istanbul's revamped Beyoğlu district, are just as stylish as the brands they represent It started out in 1947 as a small textile company in Çorum, a town of 200,000 in...
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The Gaza Kitchen
A new cookbook documents the narrative and resourceful cuisine of Gaza's resilient dinner tables Gazan food carries a punch, spiked as it is with the likes of red chilli peppers, cardamom, cloves,...
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Sephora | So Colorful
Sephora commissioned three Dubai-based artists to create exclusive pieces inspired by its new So Colorful collection. Artworks by designer and architect Sushma Serigara, graffiti writer Sya One and...
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Trankat Street
The idea for the space was conceived two years ago when Moroccan Younès Rahmoun and French Bérénice Saliou discovered that the city of Tétouan was not being used to its full artistic potential. A...
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Little Secret
[split] Why did you choose to set up a museum dedicated to Saudi art in Amsterdam? For the same reason that the library of Egypt collected Greek books. You learn if you collect what others make. I...
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Louis, Louis
[split] A self-penned ‘Personal Shopper/Stylist/Fashion Blogger’ (he insists on the title), his daredevil style has now developed into a full-time career. Gagoue possesses that thing...
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Falafel in Malmo
[split] Over the years more falafel restaurants popped up around the city, several of them run by brothers. And when Ahmad Iskandarani got good reviews, his brothers started renaming their stands....
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The Modern-Day Alchemist
[split] A firm fixture on the Paris Fashion Week calendar since 2008, Saberi is highly regarded for his functional, nomadic and meticulous designs, which never stray far from the urban culture he...
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Ara the What?
[split] ‘I began to collect vintage t-shirts. I would see cool Lake Tahoe and Mount Fuji t-shirts from the 70s and 80s and think to myself, what if these were Lake Sevan and Mount...
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Office Space
[split] In the early 2000s, with business expanding rapidly, Selman and Süha concluded that Bilsar, then based in the shopping district of Nişsantasşı, needed to move shop. ‘We had offices in a couple...
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The Gaza Kitchen
[split] From the yogurt-based sauces and tart tastes characteristic of the north, to the tomato-based stews of the south, the complicated seafood dishes of the coast and the hearty vegetables and...
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Sephora | So Colorful
Sephora commissioned three Dubai-based artists to create exclusive pieces inspired by its new So Colorful collection. Artworks by designer and architect Sushma Serigara, graffiti writer Sya One and...
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Wael Shawky
[split] A black-haired man ambles through a bland Amsterdam supermarket, his pace steady, his gaze determined. Face to the camera, he rattles off an uninterrupted stream of Arabic, as if delivering an...
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The Streets of Tunis
Continue reading [split] Hamza, a college student, thinks Tunisian men are interested in fashion, but fear wearing clothes strikingly different from those of their peers. ‘They don’t show it but...
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Heading Inland
Continue reading [split] ‘I realised in talking to [the fishermen] that they wanted a quality of space and life that put them on equal footing with their emigrant cousins,’ Hashim...
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