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Bright ideas

26 October 2023

There is no shortage of new niches to seek in the UAE. Fresh proposals for booming business across healthcare, retail and even laundry can fill gaps in the market. These are the for-now imaginary businesses that we would…

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Culture club

26 October 2023

Alserkal Avenue, a clutch of galleries and spaces in Dubai’s Al Quoz, has become a focal point for the region’s buzzing arts and culture scene. Meet the team behind the transformation.

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A nose for business

26 October 2023

Wake up and smell the possibilities. Monocle meets the entrepreneurs and perfumers creating distinctive fragrances that look after our wellbeing and represent key elements of the uae’s history and heritage.

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Defence

22 October 2020

The US plan to sell F-35s to the UAE throws up problems, while Taiwan opens a new MRO centre and Japan sees sales of radars go to the Philippines.

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The Entrepreneurs - UAE Special: Emirates and Appellation

1 November 2023

We’re in the United Arab Emirates to explore how the business landscape has evolved over the past 15 years and to hear about the opportunities that it has for entrepreneurs and start-ups. The president of Emirates tells us…

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Diplomacy

25 March 2021

Sweden’s ambassador to Finland on what keeps the two countries aligned; Israel’s recognition of Kosovo sends tempers flaring; the uae joins the space race.

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Aboard brand Italy

20 February 2014

The Italian fleet’s newest flagship, ‘Cavour’, is on an unusual mission. The privately funded aircraft carrier is travelling more than 34,000km to Africa and the Middle East to promote Italian industry and to show it comes…

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Defence

19 January 2012

US budget cuts and Russian naval ambition.

Radio

Monocle on Design - Extra: UAE pavilion, Venice Biennale

2 September 2021

We catch up with Wael Al Awar of Dubai-based design studio Waiwai following its recent Golden Lion award for the best national pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

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Great Sheikhs

17 May 2009

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…

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The art of diplomacy

19 January 2012

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.

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Defence

9 September 2014

Tension mounts in the South China Sea and why the US "peace dividend" might need redefinition.

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Africa/Middl East

17 February 2008

West Africa wants its money back from France, the UAE's "Poetry Idol" and Japan's aid to Africa.

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Oceania

19 January 2012

Nauru's political woes, Sydney's housing price price slide and a Samoan film tipped for the big time.

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Defence

17 March 2009

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…

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Africa/Middle East

17 January 2008

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.