CONTENTS JUNE 2019
60 DUBAI A Year of Tolerance In the UAE, a time of acceptance 60
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Experience 18 Stay: Koh Samui to Dubrovnik 20 Dom Joly on the joy of Lebanese food 28 Dispatch: LA on two wheels 30 Neighbourhood: St Petersburg 36 Instagram: Travel’s new authority 42 An attempt to define Australian food 48 The king of celebrity portraits 54
Latest news 74 Inside Emirates 76 Destination: Porto, Portugal 78 UAE Smart Gate 80 Route maps 82 The fleet 88 Celebrity directions: Mads Mikkelsen on the Arctic, and Copenhagen 90
Expo 2020 What can we do to safeguard the Earth? 68
LitFest It doesn’t matter if Aladdin is Arabic 70