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Spiegel eye
Monocle speaks with Klaus Brinkbäumer, a US correspondent for German weekly Der Spiegel, about covering the US presidential elections and his interviews with McCain, Clinton, and the Obamas.
Wanted man
Former radio journalist Ahmed Abdisalam Adan has faced death threats and seen colleagues killed. Now, as Somalia’s deputy prime minister, he tells Monocle about life in a humanitarian disaster zone.
Press for change
Publishing dynasty MDS is growing faster than at any time in its 205-year history. The man leading its digital charge is determined the firm stays close to its founding principles.
Oil painting
Dubai believes luxury and 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 capital of culture.
Bridging the gulf
Qatar’s Al-Jazeera Arabic news network has a rocky relationship with the US. Abderrahim Foukara, the station’s Washington bureau chief and managing editor, is the face of Al-Jazeera Arabic in the US.
Up for sail
Japan’s recreational boat market has been in the doldrums due to an antipathy to ostentation. But now the ‘nation of rice farmers’ is finally finding its sea legs at its annual boating fair.
Reality bites
German artist Thomas Demand is known for his extraordinary lifelike model sets. We meet him at Berlin’s Cantamaggio, where he dines regularly as he cannot cook and loves the ritual of a good meal.
Q&A: Lady Yvonne Cochrane
Beirut's Christian quarter of Ashrafieh has weathered civil war, terrorist assassinations and the recent Hezbollah-Israeli conflict. But today the hill-top neighbourhood is once again under threat, this time from developers who are destroying the…
