Tuesday 28 June
Few states do superlatives quite like the Emirates. Highest this, biggest that. There was even a press release doing the rounds for a while about the world’s tallest pyramid of Airwick air fresheners being assembled in a…
Abu Dhabi is built on oil but the supply is not without a bottom. As a result, the city is morphing into a technology, and culture superpower. But who are the visionaries on the ground turning dreams into bricks and mortar…
Monday 26 March
Out in the UAE last week – up and down the Sheikh Zayed road from Abu Dhabi to Dubai and back again in heat hazes and sandstorms, the place seemed different to last time I was there – to look at art, at least – three years…
Saturday 21 November
The Swarovski chandeliers in Abu Dhabi’s seven-star Emirates Palace hotel vied for attention this week with equally luminous visitors from the world’s best contemporary art galleries.
Tuesday 19 January
In the seven-starred splendour of Abu Dhabi’s Emirates Palace hotel, Hélène Pelosse manages to look both exhausted and pleased as punch.
Modern warfare is not simply divided between conventional and nuclear, guerrilla or acts of terrorism. It’s a complicated mix of all these and more. But what to buy to defend yourself? Every two years, defence firms gather…
Monocle reports from the IDEX arms fair in Abu Dhabi, and why the US should support struggling nations against insurgents.
Ouagadougou is spruced up by an army of low-cost cleaners, Congo's governor gets to work on a failing region, plus Abu Dhabi's new transport system.
Safely back in London and recovering from a very busy production week, the team look to the Middle East for the latest on all things Abu Dhabi.
Sophie Grove picks the best of the week including a diamond dispute in India, a walk in Belfast and a cultural festival in Abu Dhabi.
Monday 10 May
When publicity announced that the film Sex and the City 2 (to be released in the UK and the US later this month) would feature the cast of New York fashionistas frolicking in Abu Dhabi, the news was met in the Middle East…
We speak to our man in Budapest as Hungary revisits controversial plans for its constitution, get and update on Yulia Tymoshenko's court case, check in with the Abu Dhabi Air Expo, and get business news from Reuters’ Joanna…
Joining Tyler Brûlé today is creative powerhouse Cecil Balmond. We sample fine wines from Mount Etna and also the cuisine of Abu Dhabi.
Engineering company Arup is the name that connects the Sydney Opera House to the proposed Guggenheim museum in Abu Dhabi. The owner-operated firm’s pioneering staff are the go-to guys if you want to construct the impossible…
The French hoist the flag over the new military base in Abu Dhabi, fence yourself in army style and how to stope Iran getting a nuclear bomb (it wont be easy).
Tuesday 5 January
Dubai opened the world’s tallest skyscraper yesterday – with the surprise announcement that the glistening structure had been renamed Burj Khalifa, after Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan, leader of Abu Dhabi.
Our San Francisco correspondent previews Google’s bricks-and-mortar plans, we visit the defence trade show IDEX in Abu Dhabi, and ABC News’s Jeffrey Kofman reviews the morning newspapers with our editor-in-chief, Tyler…
Friday 7 January
While Abu Dhabi’s most famous hotel put up an extravagant Christmas tree worth millions of dollars during the holiday period – demonstrating a certain degree of religious openness, many Orthodox Christians and Copts who…
Wednesday 24 October
It’s the bits in between that look so wrong. Sure the towers tower and the palaces glint but the gaps in between the buildings, that’s where it often falls down, where the urban vision is suddenly rather hazy.
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