It started with an incense burner my late aunt Hessah had gifted me, one of the dozens of burners she had hoarded and hid in the deep corners of her home. The object was small - it could easily fit...

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

There is an intrinsic simplicity to our ecological and material culture that would delight the most austere minimalist. A lone palm in the desert, with its vertical majesty, is enough to fill a who...