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…
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…
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…
Nauru's political woes, Sydney's housing price price slide and a Samoan film tipped for the big time.
West Africa wants its money back from France, the UAE's "Poetry Idol" and Japan's aid to Africa.
In his three decades of foreign service, the US ambassador to the UAE has learned that art can play a powerful part in diplomacy, communicating in a way that transcends culture and language.
US budget cuts and Russian naval ambition.
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…
Quick quiz question. Which part of France has the highest birth rate? Paris? Bordeaux? Marseille? The answer lies further south. Some 5,000 miles further south.
The semiotics of President Ahmadinejad's wardrobe, plus the high seas of Indonesian piracy.
The conventional wisdom is that under the Obama administration, the transatlantic relationship will flourish anew, along with a substantial improvement of French-US relations. On 3 April, the 60th Anniversary Summit of Nato…
Saudi's Arabia's big weapons spend and a personnel shortage in the Polish Army.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and his "man of the desert" style, plus the unlikely new sport in the UAE - ice hockey.
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.
The company championing local organic produce in the UAE, Honda's new business jets, plus more news from the business world.
Boom time for South Korea's military spending, plus the defence love-in between America and the UAE.
MONOCLE catches up with the US's main in the UAE and takes a peek inside Brazil's Kenyan embassy.
The latest laser warfare, the UAE's new fighting machines and India gets defensive with its ballistic missile shield. Plus, Hilary Synnott on what to do with the Pakistan and the Taliban challenge.
We’re in Cairo to find out what Morsi will need to do to secure $5bn from the IMF. We find out how healthy Chinese TV is, and why the UAE has become a diplomatic hub.
The latest from Boston after the deadly bombings, we discuss an upcoming visit of a UAE dignitary to Washington, and speak to Turkish author Elif Safak as part of our series on publishing.
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