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The great eastern hill of Beirut, historically Christian, affluent and layered with nineteenth-century mansions — and the setting for the city's most beloved art museum. Achrafieh is Rue Sursock and its surviving palaces, elegant residential streets, and, at its edges, some of Beirut's finest galleries and dining, folding down toward Downtown and Gemmayzeh. This is heritage and elegance more than raw scene, anchored by an institution that defines it. The register is refined. The history is deep.
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Inside one of the Gulf's first dedicated art museums, the Western Orientalist pictures that once framed the East hang under the collection of the ruler who spent his life writing back against them
In one Sharjah gallery hang the Western pictures that once framed the East — assembled by the ruler who spent his life contesting them. A long read on who controls the image of a place.
Ninety minutes from Dubai, a mountain town where the same water has shaped human settlement for four thousand years.
Most guides to Hatta list its fort, its dam and its trails. This is the valley told differently — through the single physical problem that has shaped every era of its life. From Bronze Age tombs sited by the water to a mosque timed by shadow to a hydro plant that answers Dubai in ninety seconds, one question runs through four thousand years: where does the water go, and whose turn is it?
The Tunisian desert that became Tatooine — its Berber architecture, its vanishing film sets and the living street-art scene painting over the myth.
George Lucas filmed Star Wars across southern Tunisia, borrowing Berber pit-houses and 15th-century granaries as an alien world. But the real story is what's underneath: a living tradition of desert architecture, two millennia of coexistence on Djerba, and one of the most ambitious street-art projects on Earth.
Every Star Wars filming location in Tunisia, from the sand-swept Mos Espa set to the cave hotel where Luke grew up — with maps, tips and a 3-to-7-day route.
Tunisia is the real Tatooine. George Lucas filmed here across five films, and most of the locations still stand. Here's every major Star Wars site — Mos Espa, Matmata, the Tataouine ksour, Djerba — plus how to link them into one desert trip.
The Jewish Museum explores how a Viennese design collective preserved craftsmanship amid industrial change
A new exhibition at New York's Jewish Museum shines a light on the overlooked contributions of Jewish women artists within the Wiener Werkstätte, the early 20th-century Viennese collective that championed handcraft in an age of mechanisation.
The Los Angeles fair opens in the Marais with 34 galleries across two historic buildings
Post-Fair launches its first European edition in Paris this October, offering an alternative to corporate art fairs with affordable exhibitor fees and architecturally distinctive venues.
