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...

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 UNESC...

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....

A Ramadan favorite, tamriya is a healthy and delicious vegan dessert.

Sadu, the traditional form of weaving performed by Bedouin women throughout Arabia, was once the artistic language of Bedouin women, their own form of Bedouin poetry, the poetry of the yarn. https...

‘Nowhere is the ritual of incense burning as diffuse as in the Gulf. Just as the smell of oud or scented wood permeates our homes, clothes and ceremonial halls, so too has the ritual of incense bur...