In a recent exhibition dedicated to the 100 years of the renown Italian company Alessi, one of the display windows showcased objects that never saw the light; a fruit bowl, a kettle, a coffee se...

  From Pleasure to Knowledge:  Capturing the Olfactory Dimension of Heritage   Talk given at Misk Art Week's Creative Forum (December 2021): Smell, they say, develops ...

Desert truffles are a much-awaited delicacy in this part of the world.  Dependent on the Fall rains, their Spring time arrival is a most anticipated one.  H.R. Dickson wrote in his classic The ...

The story of the mashrabiya table started in Kuwait, was fleshed out in Antwerp and physically born in Kabul. It draws its elegant shape from the creative mind of Nedda El Asma...

A few years ago, my dear friend Ghadah Alkandari filled a turquoise Mashrabiya Notebook with beautiful designs and journal entries.

MASHRABIYA STORIES:  HUDA ABDULMUGHNI and the local ecology  Kuwaiti photographer Huda Abdulmughni started experimenting with polaroid transfer photography during the first few mont...

Hardship and survival in a barren land is the story of pre-oil Kuwait. Bas Ya Bahar (1972), Kuwait’s first and only...

السدو.. أسلوب تفكير، وهندسة، وعمارة Sadu... a way of thinking, engineering and architecture In December 2020, Sadu, the weaving practiced by bedouin women, was added to UNESCO’s Intangib...

Spotlight on Failaka Of Kuwait's nine small islands, Failaka is our favorite. Once a Sumerian, Dilmunian and ancient Greek mercantile outpost, this tiny island is now an abandoned place....