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Why Private Members’ Clubs are Replacing Social Life
There’s a global shift. Private members’ clubs have moved from legacy status symbols to a practical layer of city life: places to meet, work, and spend time well.
Why Private Members’ Clubs are Replacing Social Life
There’s a global shift. Private members’ clubs have moved from legacy status symbols to a practical layer of city life: places to meet, work, and spend time well.
The healing power of sound. New approaches to feeling well
Today, more and more people are turning to sound as a practical way to downshift stress, because it can change how you feel within minutes.
New Hotels in Saudi Arabia that will Reshape Mindful Travel Expectations
With projects by Jayasom, Six Senses, Aman, and Miraval, Saudi Arabia is beginning to define its own language of regenerative living
Now on view: Picasso, the Figure at Louvre Abu Dhabi
Why go to see Picasso at Louvre Abu Dhabi, and what can it offer today if you need a shift in perspective and state?
Lifestyle
Silence as a Destination: The Rise of Desert Retreats
Interest in desert resorts and hotels is growing neither as a fashion nor as an exotic curiosity. It emerges from fatigue with the environment people inhabit every day.
Tezukuri, Dubai: Wood, Quiet Beauty, and Precision
Tezukuri brings a calm, wood-led minimalism to Dubai’s restaurant scene, with clean flavors, exact technique, and a terrace that keeps the evening unhurried.
20 destinations for wellbeing and longevity around the world
A longevity trip starts with one simple decision: choose a place where your days reorganize themselves around sleep, movement, and recovery.
Quiet shift: trading city life for space
Power is changing its address. Leaders are trading density for clarity, building lives where calm luxury, health, and clean attention shape every choice.
Wellbeing
From Neurowellness to Longevity Residences: The 2026 Map of Wellbeing
The Global Wellness Summit has named 10 trends for 2026. Together they show where wellness is moving next.
Wellbeing Spaces of the UAE
How Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and the wider UAE are turning wellbeing and recovery into a new urban culture.
Unique Wellness Retreats across the Gulf Region
These five wellness retreats in the GCC were selected for their focus on structured recovery. Save for future planning.
Why Everyone Is Talking About Sauna, Even Though It’s Been Around for 2,000 Years
From celebrities to royals, everyone seems to be into saunas right now. But what real benefits are behind the obsession?
Beauty
The Peptide Moment: Why Premium Skincare Now Bet on Signal Ingredients
Skincare keeps returning to one idea: skin responds best to messages it can recognize. That is why peptides have moved from a “nice-to-have” claim on labels to a core logic behind new formulas.
HYDRA3 by Valmont – hydration that works deeper than it seems.
Across the Gulf, hydration becomes a daily necessity, and Valmont’s newest line HYDRA3 speaks directly to that reality.
Beauty Shifts Defining 2026
It seems like this year wellness is taking a more balanced and grown-up shape. The high-effort era is giving way to quieter standards that hold up in real life.
Longevity Pods: What They Are, and Why They Matter for Beauty
Longevity pods turn at-home care into a calming immersive treatment: salt, red light, oxygen, sound, and scent combined into one guided session.
Travel
Oman. Five Hotels for Calm Luxury
Oman has become a reference point for calm luxury in the region. From mountain plateaus and remote peninsulas to quiet coastal enclaves, these stays prioritize silence and a slower rhythm as the foundation of modern wellbeing.
Inside Royal Mansour Marrakech: A Garden Oasis for Recovery
Royal Mansour Marrakech is more than a legendary hotel – it has become a Marrakech landmark in its own right. The project was overseen by the royal family, and it took five years to bring it to life.
On the Shore of a Longer Life: Longevity at Halekulani Okinawa
On Okinawa, people simply live longer. Halekulani Okinawa Resort translates this quiet philosophy of long life into an exquisitely five-star ritual.
The Dolder Grand. A Swiss reset above Zurich
Set above Zurich and surrounded by forest and clean air, The Dolder Grand offers a form of wellbeing travel where architecture and silence work together to restore energy and clarity.
Culture
Art Basel Qatar: why Doha’s art moment matters beyond the fair
From February 5 to 7, 2026, Doha steps into the global art spotlight with the launch of Art Basel Qatar, marking a new chapter in the region’s cultural calendar.
Desert X AlUla returns with a theme inspired by Kahlil Gibran
Desert X AlUla 2026 turned AlUla’s canyons into an open-air route of 11 new site-specific installations, with Kahlil Gibran’s Space Without Measure
Dubai to turn the desert into a 10-kilometer art gallery
Dubai’s desert is set to become the site of a walkable artwork called CLIO Desert Park – a land art route built from thousands of modular panels and designed to lead visitors towards Clio House.
Why Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum Is Worth the Trip
A pyramid-view museum built for scale and clarity – with Tutankhamun’s full 5,398-piece collection, the Ramesses II colossus, and galleries that finally make ancient Egypt feel legible in one visit.
