Lebanese businessman Mohamed al-Faqih decided to open the first "touchless" restaurant in Toronto, Canada, to help customers enjoy Arabic food, while respecting the rules of social separation.
With this, Box'd became the first fully “self” restaurant in Canada, where the customer enters the restaurant and then chooses the meal he wants from his cell phone, by scanning the restaurant’s digital code. After waiting for some time, the customer's name appears on the orders screen, and he is asked to go to one of the sterile glass boxes in which his application will be ready by a number of in-house chefs who prepare it. To open these boxes where food is placed automatically, the customer must double click on them.
It is noteworthy that Fakih succeeded in launching a chain of "Paramount" restaurants that offer Arabic food, years ago, which met with great success, and became one of the most famous restaurants in Toronto and other cities in Canada.
At Leila Heller Gallery in Dubai, Indian contemporary artist Manish Nai invites viewers to reconsider the materials that surround them. In In Search of Material within Material, a solo exhibition bringing together works created between 2021 and 2026, discarded objects, industrial surfaces and familiar everyday materials become the starting point for an exploration of form, memory and transformation.
There are artists who paint what they see, and others who paint what they remember, what they have lost, or what words cannot express. Etel Adnan did all three.
Some artists paint what they see. Others paint what they carry within them. For Paul Guiragossian, art became a language for the human experience — a way to express belonging, separation, resilience and the quiet strength of togetherness.