Over the last few years, Dubai has lured many of the world’s top chefs to its restaurants, bringing serious international gourmets in their wake. Prices are high but so are the standards – pick from this list of temples to gastronomy for your big budget blowout and it will be money well spent.
March 1, 2012
Art Dubai in March
The sixth edition of Art Dubai returns to Madinat Arena from March 21 to 24. Although it doesn’t yet attract New York and London’s super-galleries, Art Dubai has quickly established itself as the biggest art fair in the Middle East. Last year some contributors took advantage of Dubai’s relatively open environment to comment on the Arab Spring, so it will be interesting to see how current events are reflected in this year’s festival.
February 13, 2012
Yas Island
As Abu Dhabi steps up efforts to attract tourists, it has a tough task distinguishing itself from Dubai. They’ll never build a taller skyscraper or a bigger palm-shaped luxury housing development, so can Abu Dhabi ever rival its profligate neighbor down the road?
January 17, 2012
Dubai’s Cultural Oasis and the Farjam Art Collection
Dubai’s financial district might appear at first glance to have little to offer the curious visitor but glass and steel and the faint aroma of money with a top-note of oil. But near Emirates Towers, a complex which looks like two robots having an argument, you’ll find Gate Village.
December 19, 2011
The Empty Quarter
Have a look at your pinkie finger (either one will do). Now imagine a line at its halfway point. That’s more or less how much rain falls each year on the Empty Quarter, the largest sand desert in the world, which takes up a large portion of the Arabian Peninsula.
National borders are only sketched in on the map of the Empty Quarter, and the physical space presents no limit to the imagination. In the absence of settlements, landmarks or any permanent sign of human activity, legends and conjecture have rushed to fill the void over the centuries.
November 21, 2011
Dubai Museum
If all you see of Dubai is the airport, the shopping malls, the highways, the skyscraper hotels and the crazy and ambitious off-shore developments, it’s easy to convince yourself that the city is no older than the oil boom. If you knew nothing of the emirate’s history and someone told you it sprang out of the desert one afternoon in 1975 and has kept growing ever since, you might be inclined to believe them.
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April 23, 2012
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