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Feature Writing
Digital pieces and print articles on culture, travel, design and the idiosyncrasies of modern living.
ARTICLE | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
In an obscure alleyway near Lisbon’s Alcântara neighborhood, the Fábrica Sant’Anna has been producing azulejos—the Portuguese word for wall tiles—roughly the same way since the workshop’s founding in 1741.
ARTICLE | EMIRATES MAGAZINE
In times when youngsters play on touchscreens from the cradle, the urban sketching movement rescues the wistfulness associated with old travel diaries.
ARTICLE | CNN TRAVEL
Overshadowed by neighboring Andalusia, this sunny region revels in bucolic charm and medieval heritage, Roman sites and a well-rounded calendar of festivities.
ARTICLE | EMIRATES MAGAZINE
The old aphorism ascribed to the first-century Roman gourmand Apicius, "We eat first with our eyes", has never felt more accurate. Is there hope beyond rainbow bagels?
ARTICLE | EMIRATES MAGAZINE
Oliver Twist wouldn’t believe his eyes if he fell down the chimney of a current-day, London factory conversion – to find anything but the scenario he would expect.
ARTICLE | ORYX MAGAZINE
There is something simultaneously unsettling and soothing about the large-scale portraits carved by Alexandre Farto – aka Vhils – in walls across the world.
ARTICLE | EMIRATES MAGAZINE
As Rome, Florence and Venice were among the world’s first cities to deal with the pains of overtourism, the Italian countryside has been telling a tale of a different sort.
ARTICLE | SMITHSONIAN
Against all odds, a conservation program has brought the short-tailed, bushy-bearded Iberian Lynx back from the verge of extinction.
ARTICLE | EMIRATES MAGAZINE
Born in the early nineteenth century in rooms alike across the old neighbourhoods of Lisbon, fado is simultaneously a voice of the quotidian and a desperate cry of love.
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