bazaar May 2026

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May is looking UP: schools are back, at least for high schoolers; the airport is open, at least partially; the ceasefire appears to be intact; most peeps who were stranded abroad are back; and the weather is amazing these days! Let’s hope it stays like this. I seriously doubt anyone has the mental capacity to go through this all over again.... Let’s all send positive thoughts into the universe!

We kick off this issue with our cover story, a visual exploration of duality through the Porsche Macan in its two expressions. Shot right here in Kuwait by bazaar Studios, the feature brings together combustion and electric, two distinct energies sharing the same DNA, each capturing a different rhythm of modern luxury while staying rooted in the same unmistakable identity.

We also sit down with Youssef El Deeb, a man who has built, lost, and rebuilt some of the region’s most influential media platforms, yet still chooses to follow fear as a compass and creation as a daily practice. His story is less about success and more about perspective, about seeing meaning where others might miss it.

On the wellness front, The Viking Club offers something refreshingly different. Set along the waterfront, it blends serious training with actual ease, creating a space where performance and pause coexist naturally, and where community forms without trying too hard.

In fashion, Stella McCartney returns to H&M two decades after their first collaboration, proving that sustainability and great design were never opposing ideas, just waiting for the right moment to evolve together at scale.

For those who still believe driving should feel like something, the GR Corolla arrives in Kuwait as a compact, track-proven machine that brings motorsport engineering onto everyday roads, built to respond, reward, and reconnect drivers with the act of driving itself.

And finally, we close with Xcite, where the focus shifts from big purchases to the details that actually shape how we live. From everyday tech accessories to lifestyle essentials, it is a reminder that sometimes it is the smallest upgrades that make the biggest difference in how a day feels.

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Youssef El Deeb reflects on decades of building Arab media, the fear that still drives him, and why authenticity matters more now than ever before.

From Fatafeat to Takhayal, his journey is less about success than about meaning, instinct, and the courage to create things that genuinely resonate with people.

Twenty years later, Stella McCartney returns to H&M with a collection that proves sustainability and great fashion were never mutually exclusive. Blending sharp tailoring, conscious materials, and effortless wearability, the collaboration revisits iconic pieces while continuing the larger conversation around transparency, responsibility, and what modern fashion should actually look like today.

Shot in Kuwait, the Porsche Macan cover story explores combustion and electric in perfect coexistence, proving that performance and identity can evolve without losing what made them iconic in the first place. Two distinct energies, one unmistakable DNA, and a reminder that modern luxury is no longer about choosing sides, but choosing your rhythm.

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BY YOUR SIDE As prices rise everywhere else, IKEA Kuwait moves in the opposite direction. With more than 900 products now available at even lower prices, this feature explores how thoughtful design, functionality, and affordability can still coexist, proving that a better home should never feel out of reach, regardless of how the world around us shifts.

TWO ENERGIES. ONE DNA.

BUILT FOR THE ROAD, PROVEN ON THE TRACK The GR Corolla arrives in Kuwait with rally-bred engineering, sharp handling, and the kind of driving experience that reminds you why people fall in love with cars in the first place. Compact yet aggressive, it brings Toyota GAZOO Racing’s motorsport DNA onto everyday roads without sacrificing practicality, precision, or pure driving excitement.

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THE VIKING CLUB KNOWS SOMETHING YOU DON’T CrossFit by the sea, slow afternoons, recovery spaces, and a community rhythm Kuwait didn’t know it needed. The Viking Club blends serious wellness with actual ease, creating a destination where movement, restoration, and connection exist naturally alongside one another without performance, pressure, or unnecessary noise.

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BEYOND ELECTRONICS Xcite looks beyond screens and gadgets, focusing instead on the everyday accessories and lifestyle details that quietly make modern life feel smoother, easier, and more personal. From wearables to fragrances and thoughtful tech essentials, this feature explores the smaller upgrades that end up shaping how our days actually feel.

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WHY KUWAITI CAPITAL IS MOVING GLOBAL — AND WHAT INVESTORS ARE LOOKING FOR IN 2026

A quiet transformation is underway in Kuwait’s investment landscape.

By bazaar staff

Not defined by dramatic exits or headline-making acquisitions, the investment market is being driven by something more meaningful: a change in mindset. The modern Kuwaiti investor is moving away from opportunistic, short-term positioning and toward structured, globally diversified wealth strategies.

This is not a reaction to a single market cycle. It reflects a deeper maturation.

Yet recent global and regional developments have only accelerated this shift. In a more complex and uncertain environment, the emphasis is no longer just on growth, but on control. Control over risk, access, and the long-term security of capital.

Where conversations once centered on upside and timing, they now revolve around capital protection, long-term value, and geographic balance. The question is no longer where returns are fastest. It is where capital is most secure, accessible, and how it can compound steadily over time.

Real estate remains a cornerstone, but its role has evolved. Rather than isolated purchases driven by opportunity, property is being integrated into broader portfolio construction. Investors are allocating across multiple markets and asset types, balancing residential with commercial, incomegenerating assets with growth-oriented holdings.

Diversification is deliberate. Risk is calibrated.

Exposure is managed.

At the same time, the geographic lens has widened.

Kuwaiti capital is increasingly extending beyond the GCC into mature, regulated economies known for legal clarity and governance standards. Crossborder investment is no longer exploratory or trend-led. It is part of long-term wealth planning, and increasingly, a form of strategic geographic insulation against regional concentration and economic volatility.

This global orientation signals confidence. It reflects an investor base that is more informed, more selective, and more strategic in how it deploys capital.

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Equally significant is the shift from speculation to stability.

High-net-worth individuals are demonstrating a clear preference for assets that preserve value and generate sustainable income. The appetite for high-risk, short-term plays has softened. In its place is a focus on fundamentals: regulatory transparency, predictable demand, and resilient performance through cycles.

Uncertainty is not slowing investment, it is refining it. Investors are not stepping back; they are becoming more precise, more disciplined, and more intentional in how and where capital is deployed.

The behavior itself is changing. Private investors are increasingly operating with an institutional mindset. Data and analytics inform decisions.

Due diligence processes are more rigorous.

Engagement with banks and advisory firms has deepened, particularly around structured financing and long-term portfolio optimization.

Wealth is being managed, not simply deployed.

Transparency has become a decisive factor.

Jurisdictions with clear ownership frameworks and enforceable regulations are attracting attention, while ambiguity and informal structures are viewed with growing caution. In a complex global market, credibility is not a luxury; it is essential.

Within this environment, real estate is also being redefined.

Property is viewed less as a transaction and more as a legacy instrument. It plays a central role in family wealth planning, offering both capital preservation and intergenerational continuity. The objective is not rapid turnover, but enduring value.

Yet as investment horizons expand globally,

complexity increases. Opportunities are abundant, but abundance can overwhelm. Investors are navigating different legal systems, financing structures, tax regimes, and development standards. The challenge is no longer access to deals. It is the ability to filter quality, maintain control, and assess credibility with confidence.

This is where curated investment ecosystems gain importance. Trusted platforms that bring together developers, financial institutions, and investors within a structured environment reduce friction and elevate decision-making. They create clarity in a fragmented landscape, particularly at a time when clarity itself has become a form of value.

Cityscape Kuwait emerges at precisely this moment of transition. More than an exhibition, it reflects the evolution of the Kuwaiti investor profile. It aligns with a market that values transparency, structure, and informed access to global opportunity, not as a convenience, but as a necessity.

Ultimately, the story unfolding is not just about capital moving across borders.

It is about a more disciplined philosophy of wealth.

The investor of 2026 is not driven by urgency.

They are guided by strategy. They are not chasing momentum. They are building resilience, with clarity, with intention, and with control. And in doing so, they are building permanence.

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21 DAYS OF BEAUTY Ulta Beauty’s first regional campaign lands in Kuwait with three weeks of deals worth knowing about.

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Twenty-one days. Over 160 products. Half price on a rotating daily selection. On paper, the numbers tell one story, but the way Ulta Beauty has structured its first major regional campaign tells another: this is a brand that has figured out how to make a sale feel like an event.

The 21 Days of Beauty runs from April 23 to May 13, across Kuwait and Dubai, both in-store and online. The format is simple and deliberately addictive. Every day brings a new featured product at 50% off, keeping the range broad enough that anyone with a beauty routine will find something worth circling on the calendar. Weekly, a wider edit of products drops to 30% off, covering makeup, skincare, haircare, and fragrance. The effect is less clearance rack, more curated discovery, the kind of shopping experience where you come in for one thing and leave genuinely pleased with three.

For anyone already familiar with Ulta Beauty’s Kuwait outposts, the campaign makes good on the brand’s reputation for range. Since entering the region through Alshaya Group, Ulta has positioned itself as the destination for the beauty obsessive who wants everything under one roof: the drugstore staple and the prestige serum, the cult fragrance and the professional-grade hair tool. The 21 Days of Beauty leans into that identity. It isn’t built around one hero brand or a single category push. The deals move across the store, pulling in different customers on different days, rewarding those who check back in.

There’s something worth noting about the timing, too. Late April through mid-May sits in that particular Kuwait stretch when the heat is starting to settle in and the energy of the season shifts. Routines get rethought: lighter SPFs, different foundations, a new hair treatment for the months ahead. A three-week campaign timed around that shift makes a certain kind of sense.

The in-store activations will give physical locations a different feel for the duration, dedicated spaces, better product visibility, the kind of focused merchandising that helps customers find what they’re looking for rather than what the end cap happens to be selling. For those who prefer to shop from home, the online channel carries the same offers, with daily refreshes keeping the momentum going across the full run.

Ulta Beauty has been quietly building a regional audience since its Middle East launch, and the 21 Days of Beauty is the first campaign scaled to match that ambition. Three weeks, two markets, and enough rotating product to keep things moving until May 13.

Some sales ask you to show up once. This one rewards the return visit.

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THE MAN WHO DECIDED LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

Youssef El Deeb has built empires, lost them, and built again. After five decades in Arab media, he still follows the fear By bazaar Staff

There’s a version of Youssef El Deeb’s story that reads like a highlight reel. The man who created Fatafeat, the food channel that became part of the actual fabric of Arab family life and sold it to Discovery Communications.

The man who built Takhayal Entertainment one of regional media’s innovative media companies. The creative force behind decades of content that reached millions of screens across the Arab world, from MBC’s pioneering years to the intimate digital communities he’s building now.

That version is true. It’s also, by his own account, completely beside the point.

“I say the name,” he tells me, when I ask how he introduces himself. “Youssef. The rest, the channels, the companies, the whole magnificent stuff, that’s just what the character got up to while I was busy being the author.”

It takes a certain kind of person to describe their own career as something that happened to a character. It takes someone who has been paying attention to the deeper story all along.

Youssef grew up hungry. He says it without self-pity, almost with gratitude, the way someone describes the teacher who was hardest on them and turned out to be the one who mattered most.

Scarcity, he explains, is a remarkable lens. It makes you see the sacred in the ordinary. He can still locate, with precise sensory memory, the smell of a schoolmate’s butter sandwich from six decades ago.

That early education in noticing things, in finding meaning in what others overlook, would become the foundation of everything he built.

Cinema came first. It asked him, as he describes it, a marvelous question at the door: would you like to lose your wallet and gain your soul? He said yes without hesitation. Then advertising arrived, which he calls, borrowing from Henry Miller, “a very elegant mugging.” The late Alain Khoury, founder of Impact/BBDO and a man Youssef credits with shaping his storytelling instincts, handed him a principle he’s carried ever since: thirty seconds, one idea, no fluff. The 20

audience owes you precisely nothing.

“Which is, if you think about it, the most liberating thing anyone ever said to me.”

Cinema gave him mythology. Advertising gave him the knife. Television gave him the amphitheater.

By the time he arrived at MBC Group in a

leadership role during one of Arab broadcasting’s most pivotal periods, he had already developed a way of seeing audiences that ran counter to how most media executives thought about them.

Where others saw demographics, segments, and viewership metrics, Youssef saw something closer to a covenant.

“I’ve told young people

this for years: the fear is not a warning, it’s a compass. A comfortable life is just cowardice with better furniture.

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“The Arab audience is the most sophisticated audience I’ve ever performed for,” he says. “They are connoisseurs of authenticity with an almost supernatural sensitivity to the counterfeit. Betray them once and they become a rather spectacular wall.”

What he learned, and hasn’t forgotten since, is that Arabs don’t consume content. They inhabit it.

Fatafeat began as a wager. Not a safe, focusgrouped, committee-approved wager, but the kind of bet you place because you see something clearly that others haven’t noticed yet.

The insight wasn’t about food. It was about women. Arab women, specifically, and the absence of a media frequency that respected their intelligence and reflected their world back to them without condescension. The cooking channel format existed everywhere. The soul of it, Youssef insists, did not.

“What I built at Fatafeat was not a cooking channel. It was a frequency that Arab women had been waiting for.”

The channel became part of the texture of people’s mornings, their Ramadans, their family mythologies. It happened because of a visionary, Nasser Al-Kharafi, the Kuwaiti businessman who funded the whole experiment and, in Youssef’s words, set him free to fly with it. When Al-Kharafi died, the institutional machinery moved in the predictable direction. The channel was taken somewhere else.

“Like a father who loses custody of his most beloved creation. The grief was genuinely Shakespearean. I mean that literally.”

He says it without bitterness. The lesson, expensive as it was, he learned completely: impermanence isn’t a concept, it’s a policy. Every single moment.

Takhayal Entertainment, the company he launched after his time at MBC, had a name that was itself a kind of manifesto. Not Imagination.

Imagine. The Arabic command form, ‫تخيّل‬, do the thing, don’t just describe it.

“I’ve always believed that names are spells.

Choose them carefully.”

The philosophy driving Takhayal was a reaction to something he’d watched happen across Arab content, the creeping tendency to make work by committee, to ask “what does the audience want?” instead of “what do I have to say that nobody else could possibly say?” The result of the wrong question, he observed, was always the same: content that felt like inventory rather than expression. Obligatory divorces, screaming, villains with cigarettes, characters who were nobody’s neighbors.

‫شبهنا‬, he says. Nobody who looked like us.

At Takhayal, the operating philosophy was what he calls pirate logic. You see the true shape of the thing and then you simply do it.

Not pursue it. Not explore the possibility of it. Do it. He has a word for the projects worth committing to: they produce a genuine and specific variety of terror. The fear, he insists, is not a warning. It’s a compass.

The Discovery Communications acquisition followed. A landmark exit. And then came the lesson about what it costs to let go too soon.

There’s a particular quality to the way Youssef talks about the current media landscape. It isn’t the nostalgic hand-wringing of someone who peaked in a previous era. It’s the focused diagnosis of someone still very much in the game, watching patterns that concern him.

“The map is upside down and most people are navigating with great confidence in entirely the wrong direction.”

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“I keep what I call my

backwards to-do list.

Everything I haven’t made yet. I look at it when I’m tempted to think I’m finished. The list is long. The urgency is real. I don’t know any other way to be in the world.

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The word “creator,” he observes, once meant bringing into the world something that wasn’t there before. Your specific, unrepeatable addition to the long human conversation. Now it largely means filming yourself reacting to other people filming themselves reacting. A hall of mirrors with particularly good lighting.

He is especially sharp on the subject of algorithms. The tendency he sees among young creators to chase the algorithm as though it were the audience. The algorithm, he points out, changes its preferences seasonally. The human being watching hasn’t changed in ten thousand years. They want to feel something true. That’s what art has always been the technology for.

“A young person asked me recently how they’d know if they were a real artist,” he says.

“I said: are you afraid of failing? Then yes. You are.”

His advice to anyone trying to build something in the current fragmented ecosystem is counterintuitive: stop trying to build a media brand. A media brand is what settles on top of something real. What actually works, and he’s watched it carefully across five decades, is going narrow and deep until depth becomes its own kind of gravity. Find the specific human beings who need precisely what only you can give them. Serve them without compromise or condescension.

Niches become communities. Communities become movements. Movements, occasionally, become something that outlasts the person who started them.

His platform Aklopedia was built on exactly this logic, supporting the smallest food creators specifically, not all food creators, only the smallest. That specificity, he says, is not a limitation. It’s a superpower.

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The thing that stays with you, after spending time with Youssef’s words, is not the scale of what he’s built. It’s the through-line running underneath all of it. His mother, in the darkest possible circumstances, insisted on the light. He has been stealing that line ever since, or as he prefers to frame it, claiming his inheritance. ‫ الحياة حلوة‬. Life is beautiful. Not as sentiment. As instructions.

Every brief, every casting decision, every format decision passed through that question: does this enrich someone’s Tuesday? If yes, proceed. If no, burn it down and find the real thing underneath.

He keeps what he calls his backwards to-do list, everything he hasn’t made yet. He looks at it when he’s tempted to think he’s finished. The list is long. The urgency is real.

Picture Pond Media is where he does his hands-on work now. His grandson flinched at a thunderstorm, and Youssef went home and wrote

him a book. That book became Fearless Me, a children’s project rooted in the same conviction that has shaped everything else: the Arab child is being catastrophically underserved, and that alone is reason enough to show up.

When I ask about legacy, he dismisses the question almost affectionately. Legacy, he says, is someone else’s preoccupation entirely. He is here. Today. The present tense is where all the interesting things happen.

He is seventy-something years of hard-earned instinct in a room, and he is already thinking about what he can’t do yet.

“The fear is the address,” he says. “I follow it home.”

Life is beautiful. The instructions stand.

Youssef El Deeb is the founder of Takhayal Entertainment and Picture Pond Media, and the creator of Fatafeat TV. He currently runs Aklopedia and continues to develop film, publishing, and digital content projects across the region.

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THE ART OF CHANGING YOUR MIND

Certainty is comfortable. It is also, more often than not, the thing standing between you and a clearer view By bazaar staff

There is a particular kind of pride that attaches itself to consistency. Holding the same opinion for a long time can feel like integrity, like evidence of a person who thinks carefully and doesn’t bend to pressure. Sometimes that’s true. Quite often, it isn’t.

Quite often, it’s just stubbornness wearing integrity’s clothes.

Why we resist updating our beliefs The psychological term is cognitive dissonance, the discomfort produced when new information conflicts with something we already believe. The mind’s instinct is not to update the belief but to discredit the information. We look for flaws in the source, emphasize contradicting evidence, and surround ourselves with people who already agree with us. It is an efficient system for staying comfortable and a terrible one for getting things right.

The identity problem The deeper issue is that most people attach their beliefs to their sense of self. To be wrong about something you’ve held publicly and confidently is not just an intellectual error. It feels like a personal one. The belief becomes part of the identity, and updating it requires admitting that the previous version of you was mistaken, which is a thing most people will go to considerable lengths 24

to avoid. The philosopher Daniel Dennett observed that the secret of a good life is to treat your past self as a different person, one you can learn from without being imprisoned by.

What it actually looks like Changing your mind well is not the same as being swayed by every new argument or caving to social pressure. It is the result of genuine engagement with evidence, a willingness to follow a line of thinking even when it leads somewhere inconvenient. Adam Grant, in Think Again, makes the distinction between a preacher defending their beliefs, a prosecutor attacking others’, and a scientist updating their hypotheses based on what the data actually says.

The third mode is the hardest to sustain and the most useful to develop.

The people who do it well The most intellectually trustworthy people are usually those who can point

to something significant they used to believe and no longer do, and explain why. That capacity for revision is not a sign of a weak mind. It is a sign of one that prioritizes accuracy over appearance.

It also tends to make people better company, more curious, less defensive, and more genuinely interested in what you think rather than in winning the exchange.

The practice Seek out the strongest version of the argument you disagree with, not the weakest. Ask yourself, sincerely, what it would take to change your mind on something you currently hold with confidence. Notice the beliefs you feel most resistant to examining. Those are usually the ones most worth looking at.

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STELLA MCCARTNEY FOR H&M: THE SEQUEL WORTH WAITING FOR

Twenty years on, Stella McCartney returns to H&M with a collection that proves great fashion and real sustainability were never mutually exclusive.

By bazaar Staff

The press conference was on a boat. That detail matters, because it sets the tone for everything that followed. Stella McCartney arrived on screen warm and slightly chaotic, in the best possible way, swapping the polished choreography of fashion week for something closer to a catch-up between friends.

She talked about wearing the now iconic studded DIY t-shirt to the Met Gala. She mentioned how she wanted to queue in a disguise to see the collection launch firsthand. She talked about spending most of her career not quite letting things land, the accolades, the achievements, the extraordinary moments, until President Macron stood in front of her for fifteen minutes in the Élysée Palace and she made herself actually listen to how far she had come. “We’ve been told to stop talking,” said the host, laughing. Nobody really stopped.

It is this quality, the genuine refusal to perform seriousness when sincerity works so much better, that has always made Stella McCartney a rare thing in fashion. She is, by trade and instinct, a designer who believes clothing should solve something. Not in the utilitarian sense, but in the human one: the working woman running late, the person who wants to look extraordinary without participating in an industry that quietly trashes the planet. Her label, founded in 2001, has spent two and a half decades making that argument in silk, recycled aluminum, and organic cotton. This May, she makes it again, and louder, with her second collaboration with H&M. The first time around was 2005. H&M had just launched what would become its signature design partnership program, and McCartney was one of its earliest and most exacting participants. She arrived with a list of sustainability requirements and a very clear sense of her own wardrobe.

The collection sold out within minutes, generated headlines across the globe, and landed McCartney’s signature shapes, the sharp tailoring, the 26

easy shirting, the irreverent slogan, in the hands of an audience that had been priced out of her main line. What happened next is what makes this second chapter meaningful: H&M kept going. They did not use her name and move on. They continued building a sustainability infrastructure, transitioning their entire cotton supply to organic, recycled, or better-sourced alternatives, investing in certified wools, and rethinking the supply chain piece by piece.

It is why McCartney said yes again. “If I don’t do it with you guys,” she told Ann-Sofie Johansson, H&M’s Head of Design and Creative Advisor, during the press conference, “these conversations won’t be had.” The logic is her core philosophy: change from within, at scale, with receipts. Nobody is claiming perfection. What they are claiming is progress, made transparently, in the direction that matters.

The collection itself is exactly what you would want from a reunion.

McCartney has described it as “a journey through my fashion history,” and the archive instinct shows, sharply tailored blazers, breezy organic cotton separates, and the kind of sweeping trench coat that earns its place in a wardrobe rather than occupying it briefly. There is evening wear: a long white gown with a cape-like sleeve that loops into the hem, and partywear built around sparkling finishes achieved with 80% recycled glass crystals, a material choice that didn’t even have a supplier ecosystem behind it twenty years ago. There are Falabella chain details worked into necklaces, loafers, and bag straps, crafted in 95% recycled aluminum. There is a white mini tee studded with “Rock Royalty” in metal, which is both a direct callback to that Met Gala story and a very good t-shirt.

The accessories range is strong: six bag styles including a timeless chocolate tote with chain detailing, and shoes that manage to be vegan without any of the compromise that phrase once implied. No dead animals.

No PVC. No toxic tanning chemicals. Just good construction and natural materials with responsible coatings.

For those who engage with the swing tags, this collection rewards the curious. Recycled polyester, garment-to-garment. RWS-certified wool.

Industrial corn and recycled vegetable oil as feedstock for coated materials.

McCartney was adamant that every label carry facts, not just branding. Her reasoning is generous: if someone picks this up and then walks into a fast fashion store, she wants them to instinctively reach for the label and wonder what’s in it. Awareness, once activated, tends to stay.

The campaign, shot by Sam Rock in London, carries the same unforced energy as that boat conversation. Starring Renée Rapp, Angelina Kendall, and Adwoa Aboah, it is playful and warm, nostalgic without being sentimental. The tagline, &Stella, folds into variations across the imagery: &Here &Now &Me &You, a quiet statement about connection and collective responsibility dressed in very good clothes.

The collection launches May 7th at The Avenues Mall Phase 3 in Kuwait and online. Follow @stellamccartney and @hm on Instagram for more information.

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THE INVISIBLE ARCHITECTURE OF A GOOD LIFE

Personal values aren’t abstract ideals. They’re the structure underneath every decision you make, whether you’ve named them or not By bazaar staff

Most people have values. Far fewer have examined them. The difference matters more than it sounds, because unnamed values don’t disappear; they just operate without your input, quietly shaping your choices, your reactions, and the slow accumulation of a life. Naming them is not a self-help exercise. It’s a form of self-governance.

What a value actually is A value is not an aspiration or a personality trait. It is a principle that, when violated, produces a specific and recognizable discomfort. You know you value honesty not because you’ve written it on a vision board, but because dishonesty, in yourself or others, produces a reaction you can’t ignore. James Clear, in Atomic Habits, puts it plainly: every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. Values are the ballot, not the campaign poster. They are felt before they are named, which is why examining them requires paying attention to what genuinely bothers you, not just what you think should bother you. They are also revealed under pressure. Anyone can claim to value integrity when nothing is at stake. The real test is what you do when it costs you something.

The difference between inherited and chosen values Most of the values operating in your life

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arrived without your consent. Family, culture, religion, school: each installs a framework before you’re old enough to interrogate it. Some of those values will hold up under examination and remain yours by genuine choice. Others won’t. Viktor Frankl, writing from experience few of us will ever have to imagine, observed in Man’s Search for Meaning that the last of human freedoms is the ability to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.

Choosing your values, rather than simply inheriting them, is an extension of that same freedom. In Kuwait, where family and community carry particular weight, this sorting can feel uncomfortable. It need not mean conflict. It means ownership.

How to identify yours Look at where you spend your time and money without being asked to. Look at what makes you genuinely angry, as opposed to what you think should make you angry. Look

at the decisions you’ve made that felt right even when they were costly. Look at the moments you’ve compromised and the particular quality of the discomfort that followed. Your values are already visible in your behavior. The examination just makes them legible. Brené Brown, in Dare to Lead, suggests narrowing your values to two core ones, arguing that when everything is a value, nothing is a priority. A useful exercise is to write down the ten things you care about most, then cut the list to five, then to three. What survives the cuts is usually the truth.

Values as a decision-making tool The practical use of knowing your values is that they function as a filter. When a decision is difficult, it is usually because it involves a conflict between two things you want. When you know your values and their order of priority, the conflict resolves more cleanly.

Not painlessly, but clearly. A person who knows

they value security over novelty makes a different career decision than one who values the reverse, and neither is wrong. The clarity is the point. As the Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius wrote in Meditations, you have power over your mind, not outside events. Values don’t make hard decisions easy. They make them honest, which is the next best thing.

When your life and your values don’t match The most useful signal a value can send is misalignment. A persistent sense that something is off, that a job, a relationship, or a habit doesn’t sit right, is often not a mood but a message.

Values ignored don’t go quiet. They tend to get louder, showing up as restlessness, resentment, or a vague dissatisfaction that no external change quite fixes. Cheryl Strayed, in Tiny Beautiful Things, writes about the necessity of asking yourself what

you want and then honoring that answer, however inconvenient it turns out to be. Paying attention to that signal is not indulgence. It is navigation. The people who describe their lives as genuinely their own tend not to be the ones who had the most options. They are the ones who learned to read that signal early and take it seriously.

Values in relation to other people Knowing your values also changes how you relate to others. It becomes easier to recognize when a relationship, professional or personal, is asking you to operate against your own grain, and easier to articulate why certain dynamics don’t work for you without framing it as a personal failing on either side. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in Self-Reliance that to be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

People who live by a clear internal code are

recognizable, even when that code is never stated outright. There is a steadiness to them that has nothing to do with certainty and everything to do with knowing what they’re not willing to trade away.

They are allowed to evolve A value held at twenty-two is not a life sentence. People change, circumstances change, and the principles that once organized your life sometimes need to be renegotiated. The goal is not to find your values once and defend them forever. It is to stay in honest conversation with them, returning periodically to ask whether the architecture still fits the life you’re actually living. As Maya Angelou put it, do the best you can until you know better, then when you know better, do better. The most grounded people are not those with the most rigid value systems. They are the ones who have examined theirs often enough to trust them.

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THE PEOPLE WHO SHAPE YOU WITHOUT KNOWING IT

On the quiet influence of peripheral figures, and the strange, lasting power of a moment someone else has already forgotten By bazaar staff

We tend to tell the story of who we are through the obvious relationships: parents, close friends, partners, the people whose names appear repeatedly in our personal history. But some of the most formative influences arrive at the edges, a teacher’s offhand comment, a stranger’s unexpected kindness, a colleague who modeled something you hadn’t seen before and couldn’t stop thinking about afterward.

The outsized weight of small moments Psychology has long documented the phenomenon of the “sleeper effect,” the way certain experiences embed themselves quietly and surface later with more force than their original impact seemed to warrant. A single conversation can reframe a belief you’ve held for years. A person you knew briefly can leave behind a way of seeing that outlasts every relationship you’ve maintained carefully and deliberately. The mind does not rank its influences by the amount of time they took.

The teacher you never thanked Most people, when asked, can identify at least one educator who changed the direction of their thinking, often without intending to. It is rarely the formal lesson that stays. It is the aside, the book recommended with unusual conviction, the moment a teacher treated you as someone capable of more than you’d yet attempted. David Foster Wallace’s famous commencement address, later published as This Is Water, begins with a parable about fish who 30

don’t know they’re in water, and the best teachers are the ones who briefly made the water visible, who gave you a glimpse of the assumptions you were swimming in.

The stranger whose behavior stayed with you There is a particular category of influence that belongs entirely to people whose names you never knew. The person on a flight who handled a difficult situation with unexpected grace. The stranger who intervened quietly when something wasn’t right.

These moments lodge themselves because they offer evidence of a kind of person you hadn’t previously seen modeled, and evidence, once received, is hard to unfeel. George Eliot closes Middlemarch with the observation that the growing good of the world depends on unhistoric acts, on the things done by people who lived faithfully a hidden life and rest in unvisited tombs.

The colleague who showed you something new Workplaces are underrated as sites of personal

formation. Alongside the professional skills, most people absorb, without quite realizing it, entire philosophies of how to handle pressure, how to treat people with less power, how to disagree without damage. The colleague who never raised their voice in a crisis. The manager who gave credit loudly and took blame quietly. These figures shape professional character in ways that formal training rarely does, and their influence tends to compound quietly over a career.

What this asks of you The reverse implication is worth sitting with. If peripheral figures have shaped you this profoundly, you are almost certainly doing the same for people you’ll never hear from again.

The comment you made in passing. The way you handled a difficult moment in public. The small generosity you’ve already forgotten. As Henry James wrote, three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind, the second is to be kind, and the third is to be kind. You rarely know which moment is the one that stays.

THE PORSCHE MACAN IN ITS DUAL EXPRESSION By bazaar staff

A Bazaar Studios Production Art and Creative Direction: Bazaar Studios @bazaar.studios Photography: Ali Alshammari @Hyper_ali Talent: Haneen Al Tamimi @thatsohaneen, Najd Al Taher @pandorajay With special thanks to Marina Hotel Kuwait for granting us access to their beautiful grounds @Marinahotelkwt

The Power of Contrast On one side stands the Macan with an internal combustion engine; raw, emotive, and instinctive. It speaks in a language of sound and response, where every press of the accelerator delivers a visceral connection between driver and machine. This is energy you feel. A pulse. A rhythm. A dynamic force that turns every drive into an experience.

Opposite it is the Macan Electric—silent yet commanding, refined yet powerful. Its presence is effortless, almost sculptural. Power is delivered instantly, seamlessly, with a quiet confidence that reflects a new era of luxury. This is energy redefined. Intelligent. Elegant. Progressive.

Two distinct characters. One rooted in tradition, the other in the future.

Both unmistakably Porsche.

A Shared Design Philosophy Despite their contrasting natures, the two Macan models exist in perfect harmony. Their design language is unified; clean lines, athletic proportions, and an unmistakable stance that signals performance even at rest.

The combustion Macan carries a sense of tension and movement, as though it is always ready to leap forward. The electric Macan, by contrast, exudes a calm authority; fluid, aerodynamic, and composed.

Together, they tell a single story: evolution without compromise.

Luxury, Reimagined for Her Today’s luxury is no longer defined by excess; it is defined by choice. The freedom to select what resonates with your lifestyle, your rhythm, your identity.

The Macan Combustion is for the woman who embraces energy in its most expressive form.

She values connection, control, and the thrill of the drive. The Macan Electric is for the woman who leads with intention. She appreciates refinement, innovation, and the quiet confidence of cutting-edge technology. Both are designed with the same attention to detail, the same craftsmanship, and the same commitment to excellence that defines Porsche.

An Invitation to Experience Luxury is never fully understood on paper. It must be felt.

Both expressions of the Macan await you. Whether you are drawn to the emotional resonance of combustion or the refined sophistication of electric, the experience begins the moment you take the wheel.

This is your invitation; not just to see the car, but to discover which energy speaks to you.

Because in the end, it is not about choosing between two models.

It is about choosing the version of yourself you wish to drive forward.

Two energies. One DNA. One decision; yours.

Schedule a test drive today, contact Porsche Centre Kuwait at 1870 870. For more updates, follow @PorschecentreKuwait on Instagram.

LOOKS MAXING AS CAPITAL

Your appearance has always carried social and economic weight. The internet just made the exchange rate visible.

By bazaar staff

Looks maxing started as an incel-adjacent internet term for optimizing your physical appearance to its genetic ceiling. It has since migrated, quietly and without much acknowledgment, into the mainstream. Skincare routines with seventeen steps, laser treatments discussed as casually as haircuts, the slow replacement of “self-care” with something that looks a lot more like an investment strategy. The language changed. The logic didn’t.

This isn’t new. Research has documented the “beauty premium” for decades: attractive people earn more, get hired faster, and are perceived as more competent, more trustworthy, more everything. What’s changed is that the optimization is now conscious, systematic, and openly discussed. People aren’t just trying to look good. They’re trying to maximize returns.

Somewhere between green juice and collagen peptides, wellness and appearance optimization became the same project. The language of health gets borrowed to justify what is really an aesthetic pursuit, which isn’t inherently wrong, but it does make it harder to interrogate your actual motivations. Are you doing this because it makes you feel good, or because feeling good and looking good have become so thoroughly collapsed that you can no longer tell the difference?

The beauty industry has always sold insecurity repackaged as solution. What looks maxing culture adds is a layer of rationality that makes the spending feel less like vanity and more like strategy. If your face is capital, then retinol is an investment, filler is infrastructure, and sunscreen is risk management. The framing is clever. It is also, if you follow it far enough, completely exhausting.

Appearance culture here has its own particular texture. There is a long tradition of taking pride in presentation, of dressing well as a form of respect, for yourself and for the people you’re with. What’s newer is the pressure to optimize rather than simply care, to treat the face and body as a project with metrics rather than a self to be comfortable in.

Looks maxing as a concept is honest in a way that “self-care” often isn’t. It admits that appearance carries social value, that the playing field is not level, and that people are responding to real incentives. The more interesting question is what it costs to live inside that logic full-time, not financially, but in terms of how you relate to your own face when nobody is evaluating it.

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The Art of a Family Staycation at Jumeirah Messilah Beach By bazaar staff

In today’s fast-moving world, the idea of travel often feels just out of reach, postponed by busy schedules, long commitments, and the quiet demands of everyday life. Yet the need to pause, to reconnect, and to embrace moments of calm has never felt more essential. Distance feels like a prerequisite for breaks, and rest, by extension, starts to feel like a privilege reserved for someone else’s schedule.

Jumeirah Messilah Beach quietly insists is that this equation is wrong. A genuine escape doesn’t require a departure gate. It requires the right setting, and along Kuwait’s coastline, that setting has been here all along. Framed by swaying palms and enveloped in lush, landscaped gardens, the resort unfolds as an oasis within the city, a destination where families can step away from routine and into a world of ease, without ever travelling far.

Here, time softens. Days drift gently between the green of the gardens and the blue of the Arabian Gulf, creating a setting that feels both restorative and quietly indulgent. It is, in every sense, a sanctuary shaped for togetherness, a place to pause, unwind, and simply be.

Spaces That Bring Families Together At the heart of the experience lies a thoughtful approach to space, one that understands the rhythm and needs of modern family life.

Accommodation is designed around the rhythms of real family life rather than an idealised version of it. Interconnecting rooms make it easy for families to stay close without feeling on top of each other.

One-bedroom suites open generously into living areas, giving everyone space to land. For larger groups, the private residences offer something closer to a home, with the added comfort of having none of the usual home obligations. And the private villas, each with its own plunge pool, exist in a category of their own: quiet, secluded, and entirely yours. Every element is carefully considered, ensuring that whether the stay is brief or extended, it remains effortless, comfortable, and deeply memorable.

Moments of Joy for Younger Guests Family experiences extend far beyond accommodation, with a dedicated focus on creating joyful and engaging moments for younger guests. The Kids’ Club offers a vibrant and inspiring environment, where creativity and play are encouraged through a variety of supervised and interactive activities. It is a space where younger guests can explore freely, while parents embrace a slower, more relaxed pace.

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Outdoors, the resort transforms into a world of discovery. A dedicated children’s splash pool invites endless laughter, while expansive open spaces encourage movement, imagination, and connection with nature. Along the private 200 metre sandy beach, children can spend unhurried hours building sandcastles, playing by the shoreline, and delighting in the simple pleasures of the sea. It is within these sunlit moments that lasting memories are quietly made.

Leisure, Your Way Beyond its serene surroundings, the resort offers a wealth of leisure experiences designed to suit every mood and preference. Families can gather at the Infinity Pool, while adults seeking a quieter atmosphere may retreat to the calm of the Adult Pool. The private sandy beach adds yet another layer of escape, where the gentle rhythm of the sea defines the pace of the day.

For guests who wish to remain active, the resort features a fully equipped gym and dedicated cardio studios, alongside a variety of fitness classes. Outdoor facilities, including tennis and volleyball courts, provide further opportunities to energise both body and mind. Whether embracing

movement or stillness, each day can be shaped entirely to one’s own rhythm.

Families can also enjoy unhurried moments

together, strolling along the beach or through the resort’s lush gardens, taking in the views and the gentle coastal climate.

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Dining, From Sunrise to Evening Culinary experiences at the resort are thoughtfully curated to complement every moment of the day, offering a variety of settings that feel both relaxed and refined. Mornings begin at Garden Café, where breakfast is served on a sunlit terrace overlooking the lush gardens, a serene and unhurried start accompanied by fresh flavours and gentle views.

As the day unfolds, Mint Café offers a relaxed poolside setting for lunch, where light dishes and refreshing beverages are enjoyed in an easy, informal atmosphere. In the evening, Olio Trattoria Italiana invites guests to savour authentic Italian cuisine in an elegant yet welcoming setting, ideal for both family gatherings and more intimate occasions. For those who prefer the comfort of their own space, in-room dining provides a seamless alternative, transforming each room, suite, or villa into a private retreat where meals can be enjoyed at leisure.

A Haven for Grown-Up Moments While thoughtfully designed for families, the resort also offers a haven of tranquillity for adults seeking deeper relaxation. At Talise Spa, wellbeing takes centre stage. This serene retreat invites guests into a calming world, where every detail is designed to restore balance and rejuvenate the senses. Facilities include a hydrotherapy pool, snow room, sauna and steam rooms, as well as a salt room, each offering its own distinct therapeutic benefit. For a more intimate experience, the private couples’ spa suite provides a secluded space for shared relaxation. Complementing these facilities is a curated selection of more than 45 body and facial treatments, delivered by skilled therapists whose expertise ensures a personalised and restorative journey. Here, time slows, and a deeper sense of calm gently takes over.

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The Point of It All There’s a version of a staycation that functions as a consolation, a holiday-shaped substitute for the real thing. Jumeirah Messilah Beach is not that version. It works because it asks a different question entirely. Not “what can we offer instead of travel?” but “what does this family actually need right now?” And then it answers.

What families need, it turns out, is time that isn’t accounted for. Space that doesn’t feel borrowed. Food that’s good enough to remember.

A beach where children can be children without anyone checking their watch. A spa treatment that delivers on what the brochure promises. A bed comfortable enough to make morning feel like a surprise.

All of it exists here, within city limits, without a flight. The sea is right there. The gardens are in full life. And the only agenda is the one you choose to bring, or leave entirely at the door.

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SQUATWOLF LANDS IN KUWAIT

The Dubai-born activewear brand opens its first Kuwait store at The Avenues, brought to market by AAW. By bazaar staff

Gym culture in Kuwait has never lacked dedication. What it has sometimes lacked is the gear to match. SQUATWOLF, the activewear brand that built its following among serious athletes and dedicated fitness communities across the Gulf, has arrived at The Avenues Phase 4 (Electra), and it arrives with something to prove.

Gym culture in Kuwait has never lacked dedication. What it has sometimes lacked is the gear to match. SQUATWOLF, the activewear brand that built its following among serious athletes and dedicated fitness communities across the Gulf, has arrived at The Avenues Phase 4 (Electra), and it arrives with something to prove.

The brand was founded in Dubai in 2016 with a straightforward conviction: that performance apparel should work as hard as the person wearing it. A decade on, that conviction has shaped a product line built around technical fabrics, considered construction, and designs that don’t sacrifice form for function. The Kuwait store is its seventh location across the region, following outposts in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Qatar, and it marks the brand’s first move into the Kuwaiti market through a partnership with Ali Abdulwahab Al Mutawa Commercial Co. (AAW), one of Kuwait’s most established retail and distribution groups.

Walk into the store and the layout reflects the same clarity the brand brings to its products. Men’s and women’s sections are distinct without feeling divided, and a dedicated accessories wall anchors one end of the space. The collections span training, running, lifestyle, and casual performance wear, so the edit covers everything from a heavy lifting session to the drive home afterward. Nothing is extraneous. The store, like the clothing, is edited with purpose.

For AAW, the partnership fits a pattern the company has been building across its sports and lifestyle portfolio. “We’re pleased to partner with SQUATWOLF to introduce the brand to the Kuwaiti market through the opening of its first store at The Avenues,” said Deputy CEO Khalid Al Mutawa. “This collaboration reflects our commitment to delivering premium, high-quality products that align with the evolving preferences of consumers.” AAW represents more than 100 global brands across Kuwait’s wholesale and retail markets, and SQUATWOLF joins a roster shaped by the same logic: find the brands that people actually want, and bring them properly.

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What distinguishes SQUATWOLF from the crowded activewear space is less about any single product and more about the culture it’s built around.

Discipline, resilience, and consistency aren’t just words on a mood board for this brand; they inform the way it communicates, the communities it engages, and ultimately the reason its pieces hold up past the first wash. Kuwait’s fitness community, which trains through summer heat and has long sourced performance gear abroad, now has a local address for the brand.

The store is open now at The Avenues Phase 4. The question isn’t whether Kuwait was ready for SQUATWOLF. It’s how long it took to get here.

SQUATWOLF Kuwait is located at The Avenues, Phase 4 (Electra). Find them on Instagram @squatwolf.

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OVER 900 OF IKEA® PRODUCTS ARE NOW AVAILABLE AT EVEN LOWER PRICES

IKEA made a promise to stand By your side for a better life and they are keeping it. Your every day needs are now even more affordable, because your home deserves to be a better place to live.

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There’s nothing quite like taking a leisurely stroll at your favorite IKEA and being met with the iconic “Even Lower Prices” label, signaling over 900 of your IKEA Kuwait favorites. Even Lower Prices are a long-term promise to make well-designed, functional home solutions more affordable for more people in Kuwait.

At a time when prices tend to rise, IKEA is making an opposite choice: lowering them - again and again. Year after year, IKEA has worked to make everyday life at home more affordable. From living rooms to bedrooms, kitchens to bathrooms, the best of IKEA is now available to you at even lower prices so you can enjoy the best of IKEA with peace of mind.

So what are you waiting for? Look for the Even Lower Prices label in store, explore the dedicated section in the IKEA Kuwait catalogue, or browse the full selection online to discover how affordability and quality go hand in hand. Every reduced price is a reflection of a commitment that IKEA has held from the very beginning to be: By Your Side for a better life.

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The Living Room: Where It All Begins The living room is the heart of any home, and it deserves a centerpiece worthy of the life that unfolds within it. The SODERHAMN 4-seat sofa with chaise longue in Fridtuna dark grey is exactly that: generous in size, sleek in form, and now even more within reach. Whether your evenings are spent hosting friends or quietly unwinding after a long day, this is a sofa that holds its own without straining yours.

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The Bedroom: Rested, Ready, and Refreshed Sleep is not optional, and neither is a bedroom that supports it. The first step to a tidy bedroom is making sure that your storage solutions are efficient and smart. The BRIMNES 3 door wardrobe has a clothes rail for shirts and dresses, shelves for folded clothes, shoes, and bags, and a mirror door. Everything you need in a nice compact space.

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The Bathroom: Elevated Without the Expense Bathrooms are often overlooked in the design conversation, yet they set the tone for how mornings begin and evenings end. The VOXNAN shower set with a thermostatic mixer in chrome brings a spa-like quality to the everyday, allowing precise temperature control and a more composed start to the day.

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For the Kids: Growing Rooms, Growing Possibilities Children’s spaces have a way of accumulating everything except order. The SUNDVIK extendable bed frame with slatted bed base in white grows alongside your child, making it one of the smartest long-term investments a parent can make.

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KNOWING YOUR WORTH How One HR Insider Is Bringing Transparency to End-of-Service Benefits By bazaar Staff

In Kuwait’s private sector, conversations around end-of-service indemnity are often avoided, misunderstood, or quietly postponed. Yet for many employees, this entitlement represents one of the most significant financial milestones in their careers. Enter MyEOS, a new app designed to put clarity and control back into the hands of employees, built by someone who knows the system inside out.

Ahmed Al Tamimi, a seasoned Human Resources practitioner with over a decade of experience in the Kuwaiti banking sector, did not set out to become a tech founder. His journey began with a simple, recurring observation.

Employees frequently wanted to understand their end-of-service benefits but hesitated to ask HR directly. The hesitation was not about secrecy, but perception. In many workplaces, such questions can be misinterpreted as a signal that someone is preparing to resign.

That gap between curiosity and comfort became the foundation for MyEOS. “Some employees just want to know,” Al Tamimi explains. “It is part of their long-term financial planning.” For many, end-of-service indemnity functions as a form of passive savings. It can support major life transitions such as relocation, career shifts, or even starting a business. Yet despite its importance, the calculation itself is far from straightforward.

End-of-service benefits in Kuwait are governed by a framework that varies depending on how employment ends. Resignation, termination, and non-confirmation each come with different eligibility rules, service thresholds, and percentage calculations. Even within those categories, subconditions apply. For example, an employee resigning after four years does not receive the same percentage as someone leaving after five or ten years. The complexity can challenge even junior HR professionals.

MyEOS simplifies this entirely.

The app allows users to input basic employment details, then processes the calculation instantly.

Behind that simplicity lies Al Tamimi’s years of HR experience, translated into a system that accounts for multiple legal scenarios and edge cases. The goal is not just accuracy, but accessibility.

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he made a pragmatic decision to collaborate with a professional developer. What followed was months of iteration, testing, and refinement before the app launched on Apple’s App Store. An Android version is currently in progress.

This decision reflects a broader mindset that defines MyEOS. It is not about reinventing HR, but about making it work better for real people.

One of the app’s key strengths is its discretion.

Employees can explore their financial standing without triggering unnecessary workplace assumptions. At the same time, it serves as a valuable tool for small and medium-sized enterprises that may not have dedicated HR systems in place.

Since its soft launch, MyEOS has been introduced to a limited network, allowing for controlled feedback and validation. The early response has been promising, with users appreciating both its clarity and ease of use. For Al Tamimi, this phase is crucial. Growth will come later, but only after the product proves its value.

Looking ahead, the vision for MyEOS extends beyond a single function. While the current focus remains on end-of-service calculations, the longterm ambition is to evolve into a broader HR platform. Expansion beyond Kuwait is also on the horizon, though not through a one-size-fits-all model. Each market comes with its own labor laws and regulatory nuances, and the app’s future lies in adapting to those differences while maintaining accuracy and trust.

At its core, MyEOS is about empowerment. It gives employees visibility into a critical aspect of their financial future and removes the uncertainty that often surrounds it. In a work culture where information can sometimes feel gatekept or complicated, that kind of transparency is not just useful. It is necessary.

And sometimes, knowing where you stand makes all the difference in deciding where to go next.

You can download the MyEOS app from the Apple App Store.

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Founded in 1925 by Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen, Bang & Olufsen has built a legacy of exceptional craftsmanship, blending acoustics with cutting edge design. For 100 years, the brand has pushed the boundaries of sound technology while maintaining its commitment to timeless design. With products ranging from on-the-go pieces such as the Beo Grace and Beo Sound to Bang & Olufsen’s Centennial Collection, which introduces a range of special edition designs, the brand continues to reimagine its iconic creations for today’s lifestyle.

Below are some of its most renowned products, designed to elevate everyday experiences as the region gradually returns to normalcy.

BEO GRACE HONEY TONE Bang & Olufsen introduces Beo Grace in Honey Tone, a new colorway of its sculptural wireless earbuds. Inspired by fine jewelry, the warm metallic finish brings depth and radiance while reflecting the brand’s craftsmanship and acoustic precision. Designed to be worn, not just used, Beo Grace blends sound and style, effortlessly complementing the modern wardrobe.

BEO SOUND A1 3RD GENERATION Bang & Olufsen introduces Beosound A1, a sleek, portable Bluetooth speaker that brings immersive sound wherever you go. Fully dust and waterproof, it’s ideal for beach days, hikes, and adventures, offering both durability and style for your on-the-go lifestyle.

BEOPLAY H100 The Beoplay H100, part of Bang & Olufsen’s Centennial Collection, is a flagship over ear headphone where immersive sound meets refined, wearable design. With powerful, adjustable noise cancellation, it allows you to tune out the world whether on a walk, working, traveling, or unwinding at home with music or podcasts. It is available in colorways including Hourglass Sand, Infinite Black, Sunset Apricot, and Century Brown.

BEOSOUND A5 The Beosound A5, part of Bang & Olufsen’s Centennial Collection, is a premium portable speaker designed to deliver powerful, high-quality sound both at home and on the go. Blending refined materials with wireless performance, it moves effortlessly between spaces, enhancing everyday moments. Perfect for gatherings as people reconnect, it elevates every occasion.

BEOSOUND A9 Transform everyday listening into a ritual with the Beosound A9 from Bang & Olufsen. Part of the Centennial Collection, it combines sculptural design with immersive 360° sound to elevate your morning podcasts, meditation playlists, and evening wind downs. A perfect centerpiece for any 56

space, it brings powerful audio to your gatherings while elevating your home’s aesthetic.

BEOLAB 90 MONARCH AND ZENITH Bang & Olufsen presents the final two editions in its five-part Atelier centenary series: the Beolab 90 Monarch Edition and Beolab 90 Zenith Edition.

Crafted from shaped wood, polished aluminum, and meticulous detailing, each reimagines the flagship loudspeaker through texture and form. Sculptural

in presence, they deliver an immersive, refined listening experience, seamlessly integrating into contemporary living.

Ensure your Bang & Olufsen products are connected to their dedicated application for a seamless experience. Easily personalize your devices, stream music, set up multi room sound systems, and manage your products with access to support and software updates.

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WHERE CELEBRATIONS AND CULINARY MOMENTS COME TO LIFE

From dream weddings to Turkish breakfasts, Waldorf Astoria Kuwait makes May worth marking.

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Some months arrive with a particular kind of weight. May, with its warmth and its sense of occasion, tends to draw people together around tables, under chandeliers, in rooms that feel built for exactly this.

Waldorf Astoria Kuwait understands this instinct well, and this month, the hotel has shaped its offerings around it — from weddings that unfold with the precision of something long rehearsed, to breakfasts that ask nothing of you except that you slow down and eat well.

WEDDINGS AT WALDORF ASTORIA KUWAIT Nestled in the heart of Kuwait, Waldorf Astoria Kuwait provides an extraordinary setting where wedding celebrations are transformed into timeless memories. Whether couples envision an intimate ceremony or a grand celebration, the hotel’s dedicated wedding specialists ensure that every detail is thoughtfully orchestrated, allowing each moment to unfold with elegance, romance, and effortless sophistication.

The hotel’s remarkable venues provide the perfect backdrop for weddings of every scale.

From the magnificent Al Yasmine Grand Ballroom to versatile multifunctional venues, each space blends architectural beauty with refined luxury, creating an atmosphere designed to elevate every celebration.

Complementing these stunning settings is an exceptional culinary experience. Waldorf Astoria’s chefs curate bespoke menus tailored to each couple’s vision, drawing inspiration from seasonal ingredients and locally sourced flavors. With an artisanal approach to fine dining and meticulous attention to presentation, every dish is crafted to delight guests and enhance the celebration.

The experience is completed with the elegant Bridal Suite, a serene sanctuary designed for preparation and celebration. With luxurious interiors and a tranquil ambiance, the suite offers a private haven where the bride and her closest companions can prepare, relax, and embrace the excitement of the day ahead.

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OUTSIDE CATERING BY WALDORF ASTORIA KUWAIT Extending its legacy of luxury beyond the hotel, Waldorf Astoria Kuwait introduces Luxury Catering by Waldorf Astoria Kuwait, a pioneering service designed to bring the brand’s signature hospitality directly to guests across the city.

From intimate private gatherings to largescale celebrations hosting up to 300 guests, every event is thoughtfully curated by the hotel’s culinary and events specialists. Bespoke menus, refined presentation, and seamless service ensure that each occasion reflects the sophistication and attention to detail synonymous with the Waldorf Astoria name.

Combining innovation with culinary excellence, state-of-the-art food trucks enable the team to deliver exceptional catering experiences across Kuwait City, bringing signature dishes and impeccable service to venues selected by guests.

Guided by sustainable practices and a commitment to locally sourced ingredients, the service offers fully personalized culinary journeys designed to reflect each host’s vision.

Every detail is managed with discretion and professionalism, transforming gatherings into unforgettable celebrations defined by elegance and distinction.

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BREAKFAST AT PEACOCK ALLEY Mornings at Peacock Alley unfold with quiet sophistication through the elegant Breakfast Rituals, a refined experience designed for a leisurely start to the day.

Guests may choose between the French Breakfast Ritual and the Arabian Sunrise Feast, each offering a distinctive culinary journey inspired by classic morning traditions. From delicate pastries and artisanal selections to flavors inspired by regional heritage, every detail is thoughtfully prepared to elevate the morning experience.

Served in the timeless surroundings of Peacock Alley, where Parisian charm meets warm hospitality, the experience invites guests to slow down and savor the beauty of a relaxed morning.

Available daily | From 8 AM to 12 PM KWD 15 for two pax TURKISH BREAKFAST AT AVA At AVA, breakfast becomes a vibrant and immersive experience inspired by the rich traditions of Turkish cuisine.

The thoughtfully curated spread features signature hot dishes including Menemen and Mihlama, with the latter presented by our Turkish chef through a live pass-around service, bringing 60

a dynamic and engaging element to the table.

Freshly baked simit, seasonal fruits, and traditional Turkish laban complement the offering, creating a balanced and authentic morning feast.

Served in AVA’s lively yet refined setting, the Turkish breakfast encourages guests to gather, share, and enjoy the flavors of a culinary tradition rooted in generosity and warmth.

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MICRO-LUXURIES THAT CHANGE YOUR DAY

The small, deliberate pleasures that make ordinary days feel considered.

By bazaar staff

Nobody needs a candle that costs as much as a dinner out. But there’s something that happens when you light one anyway, on a Tuesday, for no reason, that a cheaper one doesn’t quite replicate. Micro-luxuries aren’t about price points. They’re about the decision to make something ordinary feel worth attending to.

A coffee order that’s actually yours Not the one you default to, but the one you’d order if you had a full five minutes to think about it. A specific roast, a particular ratio, oat milk when you actually prefer it. The drink itself is almost beside the point. The point is the small act of knowing what you want and asking for it.

The good soap The one you’ve been saving for guests who never seem to arrive. Use it. The difference between a bar of soap that smells like nothing and one that makes you pause for half a second every morning is larger than it has any right to be.

A walk with no destination Not exercise, not errands. A walk where the only agenda is to notice things. Kuwait’s evenings in the cooler months were made for this, the light off the Gulf, the particular quiet of a residential street at dusk. Twenty minutes is enough to return to yourself.

Fresh flowers, bought for yourself The habit of treating flowers as something you receive rather than something you buy is worth breaking. A single stem of something in season on your desk changes the quality of the air around it, not literally, but in the way that beauty always slightly adjusts the atmosphere of a room.

The long shower you keep cutting short Not every day. But sometimes, the most luxurious thing available to you costs nothing except the permission to take ten more minutes. Let the water run hot. Don’t optimize it.

A book before your phone The first fifteen minutes of the morning set a tone that’s surprisingly hard to shake. Reaching for a book instead of a screen doesn’t require discipline so much as placement: leave the book on the nightstand, leave the phone across the room, and let the choice make itself.

Eating at the table Not every meal, but one a day.

No screen, no scroll, just the food and wherever your mind goes without prompting. It sounds like nothing until you try it for a week and notice how different it feels to actually finish a meal.

The scent you wear only for yourself Not for going out, not for occasions. A fragrance you put on at home, on a day when you’re seeing no one, simply because you like it. That particular privacy is its own small indulgence.

The playlist that belongs to no one else Not a shared playlist, not an algorithm’s guess at your taste, not the one you’d put on if someone else were in the room. A playlist built slowly and selfishly, song by song, for no occasion and no audience. The act of curating it is half the pleasure. The other half is pressing play and remembering that some things are still entirely yours.

Photo by Cuong Duyen Ceramics on Unsplash.

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BUILT FOR THE ROAD, PROVEN ON THE TRACK

The GR Corolla arrives in Kuwait, bringing with it the engineering DNA of competitive motorsport and a drive that earns every kilometer.

By bazaar staff

There is a particular kind of car that doesn’t ask you to adjust to it. You sit down, grip the wheel, and something shifts. The road ahead looks different. That is the promise of the GR Corolla, Toyota GAZOO Racing’s most compact expression of what happens when rally engineers are handed a production brief and told not to hold back.

ALSAYER Automotive has brought the GR Corolla to Kuwait roads, and the timing feels right.

Kuwait’s appetite for performance has been building steadily, and this car speaks directly to drivers who want something that responds, that rewards, that actually feels like it was made for them.

The engineering story begins under the hood.

A 1.6-liter G16E-GTS turbocharged three-cylinder engine, the same powertrain family that underpins Toyota’s World Rally Championship efforts, 64

produces 296 horsepower and 400 Nm of torque.

Those numbers matter less than what they feel like in practice: strong, immediate mid-range pull that doesn’t plateau. It was refined through real track testing, which is worth saying plainly, because it shows. The engine doesn’t just perform on paper.

Power reaches all four wheels through the GR-FOUR active torque-split all-wheel drive system, which continuously recalibrates distribution to maximize grip and keep the car planted through

corners. Drivers who want full engagement can opt for the six-speed manual transmission. Those who prefer the car to handle the shifting can choose the eight-speed GR-DAT, Toyota GAZOO Racing’s own Direct Automatic Transmission, calibrated to respond as quickly as a driver would want and no faster.

The chassis follows the same logic.

MacPherson strut suspension at the front, double wishbone at the rear, and a body that has been

worked over aerodynamically with purpose. The hood ducts, front bumper vents, and enlarged grille openings are not styling exercises. They are part of a cooling and airflow system developed to maintain stability and downforce under sustained high-speed conditions. On the GR-DAT variant, an air-cooled transmission fluid cooler adds another layer of thermal management, keeping everything running cleanly regardless of how the car is being driven.

Inside, the GR Corolla keeps its focus. The cabin is driver-oriented without being spartan: an 8-inch Display Audio system handles navigation and vehicle data, supportive sports seats hold the driver in place through lateral movement, and the layout gives a clear sense of connection between the person and the machine. The 60/40 split-folding rear seats add genuine practicality, expanding cargo configurations for the days when the car is doing everyday work rather than weekend driving.

Safety has not been sacrificed in the name of performance. The GR Corolla carries Toyota Safety Sense as standard, covering Pre-Collision System, Dynamic Radar Cruise Control, Lane Tracing Assist, Lane Departure Alert, and Automatic High Beam.

Blind Spot Monitor and Safe Exit Assist extend awareness to the surrounding environment, and both transmission variants include rear visibility systems suited to their respective configurations.

The exterior arrives in four colors: Precious Metal, Platinum White Pearl Mica, Emotional Red, and Precious Black, paired with Black or Black and Red interior options. The choices are considered rather than overwhelming. Each combination holds together well, and the Emotional Red, in particular, carries the car’s character honestly.

Nobuyuki Takemura of Toyota Motor Corporation’s Middle East Representative office put it plainly: “The Middle East has a growing passion for performance and motorsport culture. The GR Corolla brings Toyota GAZOO Racing’s engineering philosophy to a compact, highly capable platform that delivers excitement on every drive.”

For drivers in Kuwait who have been waiting for a car that takes the act of driving seriously, the wait is over.

Visit toyota.com.kw, call 1803803, or follow @toyotakw on Instagram.

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YOUR PERSONAL ENERGY MAP

Not all hours are created equal. Learning which ones belong to you changes everything By bazaar staff

Productivity culture wants you to believe that discipline is the answer, that if you just wake up earlier, batch your tasks, and protect your mornings, everything will fall into place. What it skips over is that energy is not the same thing as time. An hour at 7am is not the same hour for everyone, and pretending otherwise is how people spend years being efficient at the wrong things.

Find your peak window Most people have two to three hours a day when their thinking is genuinely sharp, their focus comes easily, and their best work happens without force. The problem is those hours are rarely protected. They get eaten by emails, meetings, and tasks that could have waited. Identify yours, guard them as you would any non-negotiable appointment, and notice what changes.

Know your social battery Some people leave a long lunch feeling restored. Others leave it feeling quietly depleted, even if they enjoyed it.

Neither is wrong, but mistaking one for the other is costly. Pay attention to which interactions give you something back and which ones require recovery time afterward. Your calendar should

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reflect that distinction, not ignore it.

The mid-afternoon reset The post-lunch dip is not a character flaw. It is biology, and most office cultures pretend it doesn’t exist. A ten-minute walk, a few minutes outside, or even a deliberate pause with no screen can do more for the quality of your afternoon than pushing through ever will.

The reset is not laziness. It is maintenance.

Evening is not dead time A common mistake is treating the evening as the place where the day’s leftovers go. For some people, early evening is actually a second window of clarity, quieter and less pressured than the morning.

If that’s true for you, stop filling it with passive scrolling by default and give it something worth the hour.

The things that drain you quietly Not all energy leaks are obvious. Sometimes it’s a recurring obligation you’ve never questioned, a group chat that demands more than it returns, a commitment made in a different season of life that no longer fits. An energy map isn’t just about when you work well. It’s also about what you should probably stop doing.

Rest as a non-negotiable, not a reward The framing of rest as something you earn after enough productivity is one of the more damaging ideas of modern work culture. Rest is not the end of the cycle. It is part of it. Building it in deliberately, rather than collapsing into it when you have no choice, is what makes everything else sustainable.

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THE VIKING CLUB YOUR NEW FAVORITE PLACE

Where Kuwait comes to train, unwind, and sometimes lose track of time—in the best way.

By bazaar staff

Picture this: early morning by the sea, the water still and silver under a soft sky. On the open-air seafront box, someone is already deep into a CrossFit session. A few meters away, another person makes their way around the walking track at an unhurried pace, as if the day can wait. No rush—just the steady rhythm of people exactly where they want to be.

This is the Viking Club on an ordinary morning, and ordinary mornings here have a way of becoming the best part of the day.

Located along Kuwait’s beachfront at the Radisson Blu Hotel, the Viking Club has quietly built a reputation as the kind of place people organise their days around. Not because it demands anything of them, but because it gives them something most wellness destinations only promise: the feeling of actually arriving somewhere. Ivan Tzenkov, the club’s Director of Recreation, has watched it happen enough times to describe it without surprise. “We see a lot of regulars who basically build their day around the club,” he says. “It becomes their space to reset, see familiar faces, and just take things a bit easier.”

The facilities make that easy to understand.

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access at the end. The padel court sits beside the historic Al Hashemi II dhow, lending the whole eastern edge of the property an atmosphere that feels more like a destination than a sports facility.

Beach volleyball, squash, and a basketball halfcourt round out the outdoor offering, and on a good day with a breeze coming off the water, none of it feels like exercise so much as just being outside and alive.

Inside, the gym is thorough without being overwhelming. Cardio, weights, circuit and stretching zones feed into a gym studio with TRX and circuit classes, and a Sky Fitness Studio with five distinct zones covering yoga, aerobics, personal training, a dojo, and table tennis. Male and female personal trainers run fully customised programs in weight loss, posture, and conditioning. The group class schedule keeps things moving across the week, with yoga, HIIT, and cardio sessions that draw a loyal crowd of regulars.

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Then there are the pools, and the pools are worth talking about properly. There are four of them.

The main family pool is 29 meters long, the kids’ pool is shallow and shaded, and the indoor spa pool runs hydro massage jets that make the concept of leaving feel genuinely inconvenient. Azur, the adultsonly option, is a two-level infinity-style pool facing the sea, and it is the kind of place where an afternoon disappears without apology. The pool bar is open from 8:00 AM to 9:00 PM, which covers every mood from post-morning-swim coffee to sundowner.

Recovery gets its own dedicated space: sauna, steam rooms, separate relaxation zones for men and women, and massage treatments by appointment. It sits alongside the spa pool as a reminder that the club’s ambition extends well past the workout. Tzenkov puts it plainly: “Move, relax, breathe, and let the easygoing atmosphere do the rest.”

For families, the Viking Club has thought carefully about what it means to actually bring children somewhere and enjoy yourself at the same time. The Kids’ Club has a jungle gym, trampoline, creative zone, and TV area. The outdoor playground is shaded and designed for ages three to ten.

Swimming lessons, gymnastics, and ballet classes run throughout the week, making it a place the kids will request by name.

Full access is available through membership, and for those who want to feel the place out first, a stay at the Radisson Blu Hotel comes with complimentary access to the fitness and leisure facilities. It is the kind of visit that has a habit of turning into something longer term.

Some places you go to once and feel like you’ve seen everything. The Viking Club is the opposite: the more time you spend there, the more it opens up, and the harder it becomes to imagine your week without it.

For membership inquiries, call 25673456. The Viking Club is located at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Kuwait, beachfront.

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LEE CRONIN’S THE MUMMY

Genre: Action Cast: Lena Headey, Bob Odenkirk Synopsis: An unassuming substitute sheriff arrives in the quiet town of Normal, hoping for a temporary escape from personal and professional struggles.

Instead, he is pulled into a crisis when a botched bank robbery exposes a dangerous secret beneath the town’s calm exterior, forcing him to confront both his past and the truth about the community he is meant to protect.

Genre: Action Cast: Mischa Barton, Mido Hamada, Kojo Attah Synopsis: In 1934, private detective Miranda Green is called to investigate a suspicious murder inside the British Embassy in Cairo. As she digs deeper, she uncovers a stolen top-secret document and a second crime that threatens to trigger global conflict. With every guest inside the embassy a potential suspect, she must uncover the truth before a hidden force changes the course of history.

Genre: Horror Cast: Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy Synopsis: The young daughter of a journalist disappears in the desert without a trace. Eight years later, her shattered family is stunned when she suddenly returns. What should be a joyful reunion quickly turns into a nightmare, as her reappearance brings with it a terrifying and unnatural presence that threatens to unravel everything they once knew.

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Genre: Action Cast: Harvey Keitel, Tyrese Gibson Synopsis: Set in a crime-plagued future, a powerful corporation enforces a brutal system by forcing convicted criminals to wear lethal, time-controlled watches that compel them to eliminate one another in exchange for freedom. As the deadly game escalates, one participant begins to rise from within, challenging the system and attempting to bring down the corporation before it destroys everyone involved.

Genre: Horror Cast: Olivia Holt, Froy Gutierrez, Corteon Moore Synopsis: Sloane and four of her classmates take refuge inside their high school as a deadly infection spreads outside. Trapped and surrounded by constant danger, they struggle to survive while fear and tension grow within the group. As the situation worsens, Sloane begins to see the world differently and is forced to take matters into her own hands to stay alive.

Genre: Comedy Cast: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt Synopsis: Miranda Priestly faces a changing media landscape as she nears retirement, forced to compete with her former assistant Emily Charlton, now a powerful executive. As the fashion world shifts and print media declines, rivalries intensify and alliances are tested. With the future of Runway magazine at stake, Miranda must navigate ambition, legacy, and survival in an industry that no longer plays by the same rules.

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THE QUIET STATEMENT

Nuniz, the Cairo-born leather goods brand rooted in Egyptian craft, is building something that doesn’t shout — and that’s exactly the point.

By bazaar staff

It started in a small workshop in Maadi. Leather scraps on the table, half-finished sketches on the wall, and a belief, held quietly at first, that Egyptian craftsmanship could be modern and globally relevant without having to become something else to get there.

That belief became Nuniz. Fifteen years later, it has a showroom at the Grand Egyptian Museum and a clientele that tends to discover it privately before claiming it loudly.

Nadia Zarkani founded the brand in 2009, driven by a precision-first approach to leatherwork that would shape everything that followed. The early years were about mastery: of technique, of silhouette, of the particular discipline required to make something by hand that doesn’t look handmade in the artisanal-market sense, but rather in the way that great tailoring looks effortless because the effort has been fully absorbed. When Carole Nathan joined Zarkani later, the two brought complementary forces to the brand. Together, they expanded what Nuniz could be.

What it became is a universe with distinct lines, each operating on the same foundational logic. Nuniz Cairo, the original women’s collection, produces bags that balance currency with longevity — pieces that feel right this season but won’t read as dated in three years. Made by Nuniz handles bespoke leather goods for B2B clients, a line that speaks to a growing appetite among businesses for objects with intention rather than inventory.

Bayt Nuniz extends the aesthetic into home décor through functional leather objects. Bahawat, the men’s line, addresses a gap in the Egyptian market that Zarkani identified early: refined, minimal accessories for men who want to be considered without being conspicuous.

The through-line across all of them is the same. Clean construction. Warm minimalism.

A silhouette that doesn’t need embellishment because the material and the making are doing the work.

There’s a particular kind of luxury that Nuniz is after, and it isn’t defined by price point or logo visibility. It’s defined by the feeling a piece gives the person carrying it — the sense that the object was made for someone like them, not for a trend cycle or a retail algorithm. Every curve and stitch is built around the belief that what we carry says something about who we are. That’s a considered position for a brand to take, and it informs everything from the silhouette decisions to the choice to expand slowly and deliberately rather than scale fast and dilute.

The selection by the Grand Egyptian Museum as one of the few brands representing Egyptian craftsmanship and heritage in its permanent retail

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space is the clearest institutional acknowledgment of what Nuniz has built. The museum, which houses one of the most significant collections of ancient civilization in the world, chose brands based on the authenticity and quality of what they make. Being included in that context is not a marketing moment — it’s a validation of the brand’s original premise.

That premise was always cultural as much as commercial. Nuniz operates in a specific tension between memory and modernity, drawing on Egyptian heritage not as a decorative reference but as a living design language. Timehonored techniques sit alongside contemporary silhouettes. The past is not a mood board — it’s a method. The result is work that carries a distinct cultural signature without resorting to the obvious visual signals that often stand in for cultural identity in fashion.

For a Bazaar audience attuned to both the regional craft scene and the wider luxury landscape, Nuniz is worth understanding on its own terms. It is not trying to be a European heritage house, nor is it positioning itself as a local answer to one.

It is doing something more interesting: building a genuinely Egyptian luxury sensibility from the ground up, with a design language that travels.

The brand fits into the rhythm of modern life without being shaped by it. Trend-aware but not

trend-dependent. Present in fashion conversations not because it chases them, but because it has something to say that those conversations keep circling back to. In a market saturated with product designed to be noticed immediately and forgotten quickly, Nuniz is building for the longer arc.

Quiet confidence, it turns out, has a way of outlasting noise.

Follow Nuniz Cairo at @nunizcairo and Made by Nuniz at @madebynuniz. Visit nuniz-cairo.com to see the full collection.

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THE LIBRARY AFTER DARK

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By Ande Pliego, Thriller

Set in 1933 Mississippi during the Great Depression, this novel follows three women whose lives intersect under difficult and limiting circumstances. An orphan with few prospects, a woman seeking refuge with her sister, and another escaping her past form an unlikely alliance in a society that offers them little freedom. As their paths converge, they begin to challenge expectations placed upon them, discovering resilience and solidarity in the face of hardship. Through shifting perspectives, the story explores survival, female friendship, and the quiet power of reclaiming one’s life in restrictive times.

A VERY VEXING MURDER

This suspenseful novel unfolds in a setting where secrets, tension, and hidden motives drive the narrative forward. As characters navigate an environment shaped by fear and uncertainty, the story gradually reveals the complex relationships and choices that connect them. With each twist, the line between truth and deception becomes increasingly blurred, drawing the reader deeper into a world where nothing is quite as it seems. Atmospheric and tightly constructed, the novel explores how far individuals will go when confronted with danger, suspicion, and the consequences of long-buried secrets.

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By Lucy Andrew, Mystery

By Dimitry Elias Léger, Literary Fiction

This novel examines the life and legacy of a celebrated soccer figure, using sport as a lens to explore broader themes of identity, memory, and cultural influence. Set against a backdrop shaped by both personal and political histories, the narrative reflects on how public figures become symbols that extend far beyond their individual lives. Through layered storytelling, it considers the impact of fame, the construction of myth, and the ways in which communities remember and reinterpret their heroes. Thoughtful and expansive, it offers a nuanced look at legacy and belonging.

Introducing a new investigative voice, this novel follows Harriet Smith as she navigates a case filled with unexpected complications and shifting clues. As the mystery unfolds, Harriet must rely on observation, intuition, and persistence to piece together a puzzle that refuses to resolve easily. The narrative blends classic detective elements with a modern sensibility, creating a story that balances intrigue with characterdriven moments. As tensions rise and new information comes to light, the novel explores the challenges of uncovering truth in a world where appearances can be misleading.

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CANON: A NOVEL

By Sarah Gailey, Horror

By Paige Lewis, Fiction

Blending psychological tension with elements of horror, this novel explores transformation, control, and the fragile boundaries of identity. As characters navigate a situation shaped by pressure and uncertainty, the story raises questions about what it means to change and at what cost. The narrative builds unease through its exploration of power, autonomy, and the desire to improve or “fix” what feels broken.

With a focus on internal conflict as much as external threat, the novel examines how easily intentions can shift into something far more unsettling.

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In this inventive and genre-blurring novel, Paige Lewis explores storytelling itself as both subject and structure. The narrative moves between perspectives and forms, inviting readers to consider how meaning is shaped through language, memory, and interpretation.

Rather than following a conventional plot, the book focuses on the act of creation and the ways in which personal and collective narratives intersect. With a reflective and experimental tone, it challenges traditional expectations while offering a thoughtful meditation on identity, authorship, and the evolving nature of stories.

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THE ONLY HAIR TOOL YOU NEED THIS SUMMER Effortless Hair, Simplified Routine with Revlon’s One-Step Multi Styler.

By bazaar staff

By mid-May, the bathroom mirror is already sweating. You haven’t even turned on the blow dryer yet. Anyone who has tried to style their hair through a Kuwaiti summer knows the feeling. The ritual of washing, drying, and finishing can feel like a small personal defeat before the day has properly started, because by the time you step outside, the humidity has already undone half of what you spent twenty minutes perfecting. The question is not really about technique. It’s about tools.

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The Revlon One-Step Multi Styler exists for mornings like this. It shifts the balance away from overthinking and toward ease, not by promising miracles, but by collapsing what used to be several tools and several decisions into one controlled routine. Five attachments. One device. Far fewer compromises. with a much organized drawer. Don’t just take our word for it, Pure Beauty Global Awards 2025 highly commended the Revlon, One-Step BlowDry Multistyler 5-in 1, so you know it’s a fabulous tool for your precious hair.

One Tool, Many Possibilities What sets the Multi Styler apart is not just that it dries and styles at once, but that it adapts. Instead of locking you into a single finish, it comes with five interchangeable attachments designed to move with real hair routines.

There is a 32 mm curling tool with 360-degree airflow that creates soft, flexible curls without the stiffness that traditional curling irons can leave behind. On days when volume is the priority, the original Revlon oval brush, sized at 70 mm, works close to the roots, lifting while it smooths and creating that polished bend that usually takes both a round brush and practice. The smaller 38 mm round brush adds density through the lengths, ideal for loose waves or a fuller shape that still feels natural.

For mornings that call for restraint, the flat brush attachment delivers a sleek, controlled finish that works across hair types. And on days when time matters more than shape, the root drying concentrator directs airflow where moisture lingers longest, cutting drying time and preparing the hair for whatever style comes next. Together, the attachments turn the device into something closer to a styling wardrobe than a single-purpose tool.

Why It Actually Works in Heat Drying and styling hair in summer is less about drama and more about physics. Every time heat is applied, the hair cuticle responds. Multiple tools mean multiple passes, prolonged exposure, and frizz waiting patiently for the first breath of humidity.

The Multi Styler streamlines that process.

With a power output of 1000 watts and four heat settings, including a cool option for setting the final shape, it allows you to match heat to moisture rather than defaulting to maximum airflow. High heat is useful when there is genuine moisture to eliminate. Medium and low become more effective once the hair is nearly dry, reducing unnecessary stress on strands that are already coping with sun and salt.

The three-layer ceramic and tourmaline coating plays a quieter but equally important role.

It distributes heat evenly across the surface of each attachment, helping smooth the cuticle while minimizing hotspots that contribute to damage and frizz. The result is hair that looks finished without feeling overworked, which is exactly what summer demands.

How to Get the Best Results The best place to start is damp hair, not dripping.

Towel dry until your hair is mostly dry, then work in loose sections so each pass of the attachment has time to do its job. Rushing through thick sections often leaves moisture trapped underneath polished layers, which explains why some styles collapse before noon.

At the roots, holding the brush momentarily before pulling through creates lift that lasts.

Through the mid-lengths and ends, a slower,

steadier movement smooths without flattening.

The cool air setting is worth using at the end, especially on humid days. It helps lock the shape in place before stepping outside.

A Summer Adjustment Worth Making Summer means more frequent washing, whether from pool afternoons, beach weekends, or simply the heat following you everywhere. More washing often leads to more heat styling, and that combination can take its toll quickly. A heat protectant is not optional here. Applied to damp hair and allowed a few seconds to settle before styling, it acts as insurance against cumulative damage.

On days when hair is destined for a braid or a low bun, the Multi Styler still earns its place. A quick pass at the roots dries the scalp thoroughly and smooths flyaways, creating a cleaner base that holds better and feels more comfortable throughout the day. It is the kind of small adjustment that makes the heat feel more manageable.

There is something quietly reassuring about a tool that does not ask much of you. You choose the attachment, adjust the heat, and work your way through your hair without second-guessing every step. The humidity will still be there when you open the front door, but at least you will meet it on your own terms.

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bazaar techno

LEGO SMART PLAY SYSTEM

XGIMI MOGO 4 PORTABLE PROJECTOR

EVEN REALITIES G2 SMART GLASSES

LEGO’s SMART Play system introduces a new generation of interactive building, powered by a tiny “Smart Brick” embedded with sensors, lights, and sound. These intelligent bricks respond in real time to how creations are built and played with, triggering effects and behaviors without the need for a screen or app. Fully compatible with existing LEGO sets, it blends physical play with subtle technology to create a more immersive and responsive storytelling experience.

The XGIMI MoGo 4 is a compact, battery-powered smart projector designed for entertainment anywhere. With Full HD 1080p resolution, built-in Google TV, and Harman/Kardon speakers, it delivers a complete viewing experience in a device small enough to carry easily. Its built-in battery offers up to 2.5 hours of playback, while autofocus, keystone correction, and a 360-degree adjustable stand make setup effortless in any environment.

The Even Realities G2 smart glasses offer a lightweight and subtle approach to wearable tech.

Designed to integrate seamlessly into everyday life, they provide connected features such as notifications and digital assistance without the bulk of traditional smart eyewear. With a focus on minimalism and comfort, they aim to deliver smart functionality while maintaining the look and feel of regular glasses.

NURALOGIX LONGEVITY MIRROR

PEBBLE ROUND 2 SMARTWATCH

The Nuralogix Longevity Mirror is an AI-powered smart mirror designed to analyze key health metrics through facial scanning. In seconds, it can estimate indicators such as heart rate, stress levels, and overall wellness, offering users a quick snapshot of their health. By combining advanced sensing technology with everyday convenience, it brings preventative health monitoring into the home.

Pebble Round 2 revives the minimalist smartwatch concept with a focus on simplicity and long battery life. Designed for users who prefer essential features over complexity, it delivers core smartwatch functions in a lightweight, circular design. With an emphasis on ease of use and longevity, it offers a streamlined alternative to feature-heavy wearables.

OHSNAP MCON MOBILE GAMING CONTROLLER

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The Ohsnap MCON is a compact, foldable gaming controller that attaches magnetically to smartphones, instantly transforming them into handheld gaming devices. Designed for portability and ease of use, it provides physical controls for a more immersive gaming experience without the bulk of traditional controllers. Its snap-on design makes it ideal for gaming on the go.

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BEYOND ELECTRONICS

The accessories that complete your lifestyle By bazaar Staff

When we think of upgrading our daily lives through technology, our minds often go straight to the big purchases. The new smartphone. The larger TV. The laptop that finally has enough storage. These are the decisions we deliberate over, research carefully, and remember making. But it’s rarely the headline purchase that changes how a day actually feels. More often, it’s the smaller things around it.

The right pair of earbuds on a morning commute. A watch that quietly tracks your stress levels while you’re in back-to-back meetings. A charger that doesn’t make you anxious about battery percentage. These are the details that smooth out the friction of modern life, and increasingly, they’re where the most thoughtful product design is happening.

At Xcite, the accessories category has quietly evolved into something far more considered than a shelf of add-ons. It’s a curated space where functionality and lifestyle meet, and where the range reflects a genuine understanding of how people actually live — not just how they use their devices.

Mobile and IT accessories are the most immediate example. Once an afterthought, they’re now among the most personal purchasing decisions a person makes.

Apple AirPods and Samsung Galaxy Buds have become daily companions for millions, moving effortlessly between a focused work session, a gym set, and a phone call without missing a beat. The sound quality has caught up with the convenience, and for many, a day without them feels notably incomplete. Alongside audio, the ecosystem of accessories that supports device use has grown considerably smarter. Anker’s fast charging range, for instance, is built around the 82

reality that people are always moving — offering rapid power-ups that fit into the margins of a busy schedule rather than demanding dedicated downtime. Logitech’s keyboards, mice, and desk accessories, meanwhile, have become the quiet infrastructure of hybrid working, making the transition between home office and outof-office feel less like a compromise and more like a choice.

Wearables occupy a different kind of space in this conversation. The Apple Watch and Samsung Galaxy Watch are products that have had to earn their place, and in doing so, they’ve redefined what a watch is for.

Step counting was just the beginning. Today, these devices monitor heart rate variability, track sleep quality, detect irregular rhythms, and offer a level of personal health data that would have required a clinical setting not long ago. They also, importantly, look good doing it. The design language of premium wearables has matured to the point where they sit comfortably alongside a tailored outfit or a casual weekend look, making them as much a considered style choice as a functional one.

What makes the Xcite accessories experience particularly interesting, though, is the way it extends beyond the traditional boundaries of tech retail. The online offering, in particular, opens up a different kind of discovery. Fragrance, for example, sits alongside gadgets not as an odd pairing but as a logical one, because both serve the same underlying purpose: they’re personal, they’re daily, and they say something about who you are. Brands like Dior, Chanel, and YSL bring that dimension of self-expression into the mix, offering everything from signature scents to newer releases that have been building quiet momentum.

It’s an addition to the catalogue that acknowledges lifestyle doesn’t begin and end with screens.

The toys and play category tells a similar story.

LEGO, alongside other leading names in creative play, speaks to a growing recognition that the home is a space for imagination as much as productivity. Whether it’s an adult collector building an architectural set on a weekend afternoon or a child working through a themed kit, there’s something in the act of making that the best-designed play products understand and support.

It’s not a peripheral category — it’s a reflection of how people want to spend their time when they’re not working.

Accessories today carry more weight than the word suggests. They are not finishing touches or backup options. They are the layer of daily life that sits closest to how you actually feel — how focused you are, how connected, how comfortable, how put-together. The right ones don’t just support the bigger purchases; they make the bigger purchases worth having.

Xcite’s expansion into this broader accessories landscape is a recognition of that shift. The offering has grown because the definition of what matters in daily life has grown with it. From the earbuds you reach for first thing in the morning to the fragrance you apply before leaving the house, these are the choices that accumulate into something that feels, over time, like a life well-equipped.

Stay updated on the latest events, monthly promotions and offers by subscribing to the monthly newsletter on xcite.com. Follow Xcite on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and Snapchat at @xcitealghanim, on Facebook at XcitebyAlghanim, or shop the full range at xcite.com.

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bazaar Apps

OPAL

WOOFZ

Opal is a screen time control app designed to help you stay focused and reduce distractions.

It combines app blockers, usage tracking, and real-time data with gamified elements like rewards and leaderboards to encourage better habits. Built to fight mindless scrolling, it helps you reclaim time and stay productive throughout the day.

Woofz is an all-in-one dog training app that helps owners build a healthier relationship with their pets. It offers structured training programs, video lessons, and wellness tracking tools, along with access to professional trainers. Designed for both new and experienced owners, it supports daily routines, behavior training, and overall pet care.

MOTIVATION COOKIE

HABITS GARDEN

Motivation Cookie delivers simple, daily motivational prompts designed to keep you focused and consistent. With bite-sized encouragement and reminders, it helps reinforce positive habits and maintain momentum without overwhelming you. It is built for anyone looking to stay inspired through small, steady actions.

Habits Garden turns habit tracking into a game by letting you grow a virtual garden as you complete daily tasks. Each habit becomes a quest, and consistency helps your garden flourish. With reminders, progress tracking, and social features, it makes building routines more engaging and rewarding.

MONARCH

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Monarch is a personal finance app designed to help you manage money with clarity and control.

It brings together budgeting, goal tracking, and financial planning in one place, giving you a complete view of your finances. With a clean interface and collaborative tools, it helps you make smarter financial decisions over time.

Mood Camera is a creative photography app that transforms your photos based on your mood. Using filters and visual effects tied to emotions, it lets you capture moments in a more expressive and artistic way. Designed for experimentation, it turns everyday photography into a more personal and dynamic experience. iOS only.

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AROMA GOLD: COFFEE, REFINED A premium German brand bringing elevated coffee moments to everyday life By bazaar staff

There is a quiet shift happening in how we experience coffee at home. It is no longer just about convenience or caffeine. It is about ritual, quality, and the small luxury of a well-made cup. Enter Aroma Gold, a premium coffee brand from Germany that is redefining what everyday coffee can feel like.

Rooted in years of expertise in coffee beans and ground coffee, Aroma Gold has built its identity around one simple idea: delivering a refined coffee experience without complication.

Whether it is a quick morning espresso or an indulgent iced latte in the afternoon, the brand brings together craftsmanship and modern convenience in a way that feels both effortless and elevated.

A New Standard In Everyday Coffee At the heart of Aroma Gold is a commitment to quality that begins long before the coffee reaches your cup. Developed through years of experience, the brand focuses on preserving the integrity of the coffee at every stage. This is most evident in its capsule technology, where premium aluminum capsules are designed to lock in aroma and freshness.

Unlike conventional options, these capsules contain virtually no oxygen, a detail that significantly extends freshness and ensures that each cup delivers the same depth of flavor as the first. It is a small technical detail, but one that translates into a noticeably richer and more consistent coffee experience.

Equally important is the brand’s use of advanced freeze-dried technology in its instant coffee range. This method preserves the natural flavor and aroma of the beans, offering a product that feels far removed from the instant coffees many grew up with. The result is a cup that is smooth, full-bodied, and surprisingly close to freshly brewed.

Crafted In Germany, Designed For Modern Life Precision is often associated with German manufacturing, and Aroma Gold carries that reputation into every product. Made in Germany using advanced European standards, the brand emphasizes consistency, quality control, and attention to detail at scale.

Yet what makes Aroma Gold particularly relevant today is how it translates that precision into ease. This is coffee designed for real life.

Capsules compatible with popular machines, instant blends that dissolve seamlessly, and formats that fit into busy routines without compromising on taste.

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It is this balance between technical excellence and everyday usability that defines the brand. You are not choosing between quality and convenience. You are getting both.

A Flavor For Every Mood Coffee is deeply personal. Some prefer it bold and intense, others smooth and creamy, and many are increasingly drawn to more experimental, dessert-inspired profiles. Aroma Gold leans into this diversity with a wide range of options designed to suit different tastes and moments.

From classic espresso and lungo capsules to indulgent creations like crème brûlée, tiramisu, and Irish cream, the brand offers a curated selection that feels both familiar and playful. These are not just flavored coffees.

They are designed experiences, layered with notes that evoke desserts, textures, and even memories.

The versatility extends beyond flavor. Some of the products are suitable for both hot and cold preparation, opening the door to iced coffee, summer drinks, and creative at-home café moments. It is a subtle shift that makes the range feels more dynamic and adaptable to lifestyle.

Responsible Sourcing, Thoughtful Production Beyond taste and design, Aroma Gold also places emphasis on responsible sourcing. The brand works with Rainforest Alliance Certified farms, supporting more sustainable practices and better outcomes for both people and the environment.

This commitment adds another layer to the experience. It is not just about enjoying a good cup of coffee. It is about understanding where it comes from and how it is produced.

In a market where consumers are increasingly mindful of what they consume, this approach feels both relevant and necessary.

Available In Kuwait For coffee lovers in Kuwait, Aroma Gold is already within reach. The brand is available through select platforms and retailers, including online options that make it easy to explore the range and find a personal favorite.

From capsules designed for popular machines to instant blends that simplify your routine, the collection is tailored to different preferences and lifestyles. Whether you are building a morning ritual, upgrading your home setup, or simply looking for something new, the brand offers a flexible entry point into premium coffee.

The Future Of Coffee At Home What Aroma Gold ultimately represents is a shift in expectations. Coffee at home is no longer a compromise. It is an experience that can be curated, elevated, and enjoyed on your own terms.

With its combination of German precision, thoughtful design, and a wide, expressive range of flavors, Aroma Gold makes a compelling case for slowing down, even briefly, and savoring the moment.

Because sometimes, the difference between an ordinary day and a good one starts with the first sip.

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bazaar scopes

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20)

It is your season, and stability feels within reach. May highlights selfworth, finances, and long-term planning. A grounded decision now strengthens your future. Trust your pace and avoid unnecessary pressure.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20) You are entering a period of quiet preparation. May encourages reflection before action. Pay attention to what needs closure. Clearing space mentally and emotionally will set you up for a stronger start next month.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22) Your social circle becomes more important this month. May brings opportunities through connections, collaborations, and shared ideas.

Choose who you invest your time in carefully. Support flows where there is mutual effort.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22) Career and ambition take center stage. May offers recognition for consistent work, but also asks for discipline. Stay focused on long-term goals rather than quick wins. Your efforts are being noticed more than you think.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19) Creativity and enjoyment return to your routine. May encourages you to reconnect with what inspires you. A personal project or idea gains traction when you give it time. Balance work with moments of genuine enjoyment.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18) May brings momentum to ideas you have been developing quietly.

Conversations open new pathways, especially in work or creative projects. Stay flexible as plans evolve. Progress comes from staying engaged rather than waiting for perfect conditions.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20) Clarity replaces confusion this month. May encourages you to make decisions you have been postponing. Trust your instincts and avoid overthinking. A small, confident step forward creates a ripple effect across other areas of your life.

ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19) The energy shifts from starting to sustaining. May asks you to follow through on what you began last month. Consistency becomes your strength. A focused approach brings better results than scattered effort.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22) A shift in perspective changes everything. May invites you to step outside your usual routines and consider new approaches. Learning, travel, or new ideas bring clarity. Growth comes from staying open to change.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22) This month highlights deeper emotional and financial matters. May encourages you to address what has been left unresolved. Honest conversations create space for renewal. Balance comes from facing things directly.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21) Relationships come into focus again, but with a clearer understanding of what you need. May asks for direct communication and mutual respect. A decision made now strengthens or redefines an important connection.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21) Daily routines and responsibilities require attention. May is about refining habits that support your goals. Small changes lead to noticeable improvements. Stay consistent and avoid overcommitting.

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