Affairs / Investments
Monocolumn
Monday 14 December
Sign of the times
Amid salacious headlines, a plummeting stock market and plunging property prices, Dubai seems well and truly stymied.
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Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Tuesday 30 August
Why Algeria welcomed its unpopular visitors
What do you do when an unpopular dictator comes a-knocking? With next-door-neighbour Algeria the only country in the Maghreb yet to recognise the authority of Libya’s Transitional National Council (TNC), it really was the…
Culture / Arts
Oil painting
Dubai and its neighbours have come to believe that even seven-star luxury and tax-free sunshine can seem stale without culture. Monocle visits Art Dubai to see who’s buying and ask if an oil state can reinvent itself as a…
Affairs / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Wednesday 24 October
The Gulf needs to go green
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.
Affairs / Business Hubs
Monocolumn
Tuesday 5 January
On a new high – with a new name
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.
Edits / Food & Drink
My Last Meal: Something to share
Afghan media mogul Saad Mohseni shares his love of simple French food and intimate dining as he plans his hypothetical Last Meal.
Culture / Arts
Monocolumn
Monday 21 March
Art Dubai shows that stability pays
While chunks of the Arab belt oscillate between simmering and boiling, Dubai is clinging tightly to its legacy of capitalism.
Edits / Food & Drink
My last meal: Taste of change
While in Dubai for the UAE’s first Arab Women Leadership Forum, 34-year-old TV-show host Muna Abu Sulayman met with Monocle for her ‘last meal’. The Saudi citizen chose Saladicious, a restaurant in the Jumeirah district.
Culture / Film
Reel Rebel
For the past eight years, Assaad Taha’s company, Hot Spot, has been making films for the Al-Jazeera TV network. His mission? To uncover and objectively report injustices through Arab eyes, while staying firmly opposed “to…
Culture / Arts
Monocolumn
Saturday 12 March
Weekend Agenda 12/13 March
An overview of the Festivals and Exhibitions occurring worldwide.
Culture / Arts
Monocolumn
Monday 26 March
The UAE’s art fairs have identity
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…
Affairs / Emerging Markets
Bank of the Nile
Sudan’s government is accused of aiding a genocide in Darfur and so the West refuses to do business with the regime. So how does this failed state cope? Well, for Khartoum the answer is with ease. With the help of Arab cash…
Affairs / Politics
Africa/Middle East Briefing
In our View from Dubai column, we check the mood in the UAE. We also have reports on Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo's election.
Business / Economics
Business Briefing
Why Iceland could be the ultimate conference hub and the writing's on the wall for graffiti artists.
Affairs / Government
Africa/Middle East Briefing
We give Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni the once over for this issue's Style Leader, plus Uganda's police chief goes on a "fat attack".
Affairs / Diplomacy
Africa/Middle East briefing
Kenya's drink-driving crackdown, a new island in the Med and a new metro for Algiers, 40 years after its initial conception.
Culture / Arts
Art Briefing
Christie's in Dubai, Stockholm's Galerie Nordenhake and a Q & A with art collector Jean Pigozzi.
Affairs / Politics
Africa/Middle East briefing
A Kenyan town gets a presidential boost, and will Emiratis ever use Dubai's new metro?
Affairs / Politics
Africa/Middle East briefing
When Walid Ataya left Lebanon for Dubai after last summer’s war, he never imagined that a year later he would be back. “I was offered a salary three times more than I was making in Beirut,” he says. “The decision to go was…