By Youmna Sukkar A four-story, 34-year old Bronx homeless shelter in Mount Eden is relocating less than a mile away to a newer, but downsized building. The shelter, currently operated by HELP USA, is due to open in 2026, according to HELP USA’s Chief Strategy Officer Stephen Mott. HELP Bronx Morris Avenue, which has an operating...
By Youmna Sukkar Ozempic. It has landed in the laps of the celebrities. It has redefined the cultural fabric of all-things weight loss. And, it’s been deified as a ‘wonder drug,’ lowering blood sugar levels in those with Type 2 Diabetes while reducing the risk of major cardiovascular events like that of a heart attack...
By Youmna Sukkar Following a two-month summer hiatus, Bronx Community Board 4 met last Tuesday night to raise a sweeping breadth of concerns, ranging from safety and sanitation concerns to a spike in moped robberies. Assembly Member Landon Dais of the New York State Assembly for the 77th District opened with “somewhat good news” from...
By Youmna Sukkar New York artist Futura 2000, whose aestheticism redefined the visual arithmetic of what constitutes graffiti, is at the center of The Bronx Museum’s upcoming show FUTURA 2000: BREAKING OUT. The exhibit is the creative’s most extensive retrospective to date, spanning his five-decade career across three floors. BREAKING OUT provides a time capsule into the...
By Jesús Marrero Suárez, Melena Rodriguez, Emily Stevenson, Michael Walsh and Youmna Sukkar Historically redlined Black and Brown communities can’t escape the heat This story was produced in partnership with the Boston University Justice Media co-Lab. Judith Foster has always enjoyed the warm weather. She used to spend long days basking in the sun’s comforting glow as a child in Jamaica....
BY Youmna Sukkar From the story behind the monarchy’s lineage to a podcast on The Crown, transport yourself to Buckingham Palace here… While the new season may be months away, Bazaar Arabia shares 5 of the best podcasts about British royalty here. Hear ye, hear ye! Calling all subjects anchored to their couches in anticipation of Season...
BY Youmna Sukkar From speaking with Governor Spencer J Cox to spending time with the state’s First Lady, Bazaar Arabia shares all the details from her trip to Utah here… HRH Princess Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud met with Governor Spencer J Cox of Utah and Utah’s First Lady, Abby Palmer, to strengthen the alliance between...
BY Youmna Sukkar From Damien Hirst’s umbilical journey to a César thumb, the nation is critically redefining what it means to experience art on a larger-than-life scale… Doubling as both the stadium to international football and an open-air museum to some of the art world’s heavyweights, Qatar is reinventing itself this Autumn. On Tuesday, Qatar Museums...
BY Youmna Sukkar From Buckingham Palace to The House of Jaipur, Bazaar Arabia shares the best Royal reads… On the hunt for the best books on royals? Bazaar Arabia shares our list here… Royal families, their complexities and decadent way of life have served to fascinate people for centuries. As the world enters an epoch of hyper-consumption— in Crown form...
BY Youmna Sukkar Bazaar Arabia sits down with Les Spot founder and creative visionary Hunoof Hamad to learn more about the ‘do’s’ and ‘don’ts’ of Vintage 101 Tucked behind a quaint street in Al Wasl is an unassuming villa. It’s bashful, to say the least, but quite the façade – and weren’t we always taught to...