Business / Emerging Markets
Monocolumn
Monday 21 September
Out of control
This week all across the Middle East people are celebrating the end of the holy month of Ramadan with the Eid al-Fitr holidays. Lebanon is no different.
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Affairs / Urbanism
Africa/Middle East Briefing
The Middle East's premium advertising rates targeting Ramadan fasters, the new Neighbourhoods market becoming the latest in Johannesburg's city centre gentrification, and Zimbabwe's management of their scrapping of their…
The Monocle Daily, episode 181
Reactions to the dissolving of Egypt’s parliament, we look at the branding of Ramadan, and make contact with an Alaskan newspaper.
Affairs / Industry
Monocolumn
Saturday 11 September
Running out of energy
Anyone who has passed through Cairo during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan will have taken one visual memory home with them: the sight of row upon row of lights – flashy, fizzy, gaudy and kitsch – dominating the streets…
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Wednesday 3 August
Water fight incurs the wrath of the Islamic Revolution
Tehran’s chief of police, Hossein Sajednia, boasted on Sunday that the rule breakers had been identified and would be punished for actions that both “opposed Islamic values” and disrupted “social order”.
Edits / Food & Drink
Ghraoui chocolate
Bassam Ghraoui and his workers defy the Syrian heat to produce exquisitely packaged, award-winning chocolates and fondants. We join them to find out why, for Ghraoui, the future is orange.
Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Friday 12 August
Meanwhile, in Syria… Assad refuses to budge
Some members of Syria’s opposition movement give their president less than a month before he falls.
Business / Society
Monocolumn
Tuesday 13 July
Selling hummus to Israelis
When they first began arriving in the country in 2005, Sudan’s war-weary Darfuri refugees posed a serious problem for Israeli immigration authorities.
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 / Arts
The art of summer
Find the cream of culture with our guide to the best books, films, music, festivals and exhibitions this season.