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Architecture

The Middle East’s best buildings?

The inaugural RIBA Middle East Awards were handed out during Dubai Design Week. The qualifications are pretty generous – submissions had to have been completed between July 2020 and July 2024 by a qualified architect (not necessarily an RIBA architect) [… more]
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magpie Weekly issue 7.08 / 06 Nov 2025

This week’s editorial musingsfrom magpie’s nest The quote: Literature has the same impact as a match lit in the middle of a field in the middle of the night. The match illuminates relatively little, but it enables us to see [… more]
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magpie Weekly issue 7.06 / 23 Oct 2025

This week’s editorial musingsfrom magpie’s nest The quote It’s through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good Paula Scher ZNM opens RSN The Zayed National Museum will open its doors to the public on 3 December – [… more]
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magpie Weekly issue 7.05 / 16 Oct 2025

This week’s editorial musingsfrom magpie’s nest The quote Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction Francis Picabia It’s the end of Abu Dhabi Art as we know it Having established itself as the biggest regional art fair of 2025, Abu Dhabi [… more]
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magpie Weekly issue 7.03 / 2 Oct 2025

This week’s editorial musingsfrom magpie’s nest The quote: I recommend the freedom that comes from asking: “Compared to what?” Gloria Steinem Catch ’em while you can Today and tomorrow (1 and 2 October) Abu Dhabi’s Bassam Freiha Art Foundation is hosting [… more]
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Theatre

Why Shakespeare works

One of the characteristics of Shakespeare’s plays, especially the tragedies, is the way their themes so easily cross boundaries of time and place. They can speak to us, even though the words as written are delivered by people we don’t [… more]