Author: Rosi Ross
AT THE EDGE OF THE RIFT: MUJIB CHALETS AND WADI MUJIB
Mujib Chalets sits inside the Wadi Mujib Biosphere Reserve, the world’s lowest nature reserve at 410 metres below sea level — this editorial traces the canyon’s tectonic origins and the Dead Sea’s 34% salinity.
THE DEFINITIVE JORDAN ITINERARY: PETRA, WADI MUJIB AND WADI RUM
Petra, Wadi Mujib, and Wadi Rum are not three destinations but one geological argument — this editorial builds the definitive Jordan itinerary across Nabataean stone, biosphere canyon, and Bedouin desert in sequence.
ONE&ONLY ONE ZA’ABEEL: INHABITING DUBAI FROM ABOVE
One&Only One Za’abeel is suspended within The Link, the world’s longest cantilever building at 230 metres — this editorial explores its restaurants by Anne-Sophie Pic and Nobu Matsuhisa, 100 metres above Dubai.
THE TABLE IS EVERYTHING: DUBAI’S GIRLS’ DINNER INTELLIGENCE
Praia, Iris Dubai, Verde, Ronin, and O Dubai are the five Dubai restaurants built for the specific brief of a girls’ dinner — lighting, acoustics, and menu pace designed for six, not two.
STRAWBERRY SKIN: THE BODY’S MOST MISUNDERSTOOD CONDITION
Strawberry skin is four distinct dermatological conditions sharing one visual presentation — this editorial builds the diagnostic framework separating keratosis pilaris from oxidised sebum, follicular inflammation, and hyperpigmentation, with the correct ingredient for each.
THE LANA: WHAT DORCHESTER COLLECTION’S GULF REVEALS
The Lana is Dorchester Collection’s tenth hotel and first outside London, Paris, Milan, Rome, and Los Angeles — a 225-room Business Bay property by Foster + Partners, chosen over a finished skyline.
THE GARDEN NOBODY EXPECTED: EUGÈNE EUGÈNE, AL BARSHA
Eugène Eugène hides a glass-roofed conservatory of live olive and palm trees on the Kempinski Mall of the Emirates’ second floor — RIKAS Hospitality’s French brasserie in an unlikely Dubai address.
THE SCIENCE OF HAIR OIL: WHY THE RIGHT ONE DEPENDS ON YOUR HAIR
Hair oil is five scientifically distinct interventions, not one product category — this editorial maps oleic acid for damaged hair, linoleic acid for coily textures, and the 2015 trial pairing rosemary oil against minoxidil.
YOUR OWN PRIVATE WORLD: THE PODS, BLUEWATERS ISLAND
The Pods on Bluewaters Island holds 22 individually climate-controlled glass pods, each a self-contained botanical world facing the Arabian Gulf — this editorial examines why privacy, not spectacle, is Dubai dining’s rarer design position.