Technology transforms Ramadan traditions across GCC
During Ramadan, GCC residents are using digital tools that are enhancing the observance of this sacred month, offering new ways...Arts & Culture
Women key focus of Dubai’s MIA ART Collection gala
The annual MIA Gala and Awards Ceremony, held on International Women's Day, celebrates and recognizes the contributions of women artists.Arts & Culture
Auctioneers unveil Microsoft co-founder’s $1bn art collection
Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, becoming fabulously rich as the company grew into the computing behemoth it...Five centuries of touchstone works featuring some of the most significant creators in history are being sold next month
The collection of more than 150 pieces includes work by Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin and Jasper Johns
Forum to discuss state of translation in Arab world at Cairo varsity
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia--The 10th Scientific Forum of translation themed “Time Differences between Composition and Translation in the Arab World” will...The forum is being held on the occasion of the awarding ceremony of the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Translation.
It aims at highlighting and advancing the effective means in supporting translation projects.
Freed Iranian singer appears in video for first time
The singer, who rose to fame for his song "Baraye", denied any links to any "movement or organization outside the...The song racked up 40 million views on Instagram before it was deleted after his arrest. He was released on bail on Tuesday, state media said
Hajipour had posted a message on Instagram after his release, seeking to distance himself from politics
Qatar wants mascot of headdress to symbolize WC
A flying keffiyah headdress named La'eeb, meaning super skilful player in Arabic, is the official World Cup mascot and is...La'eeb has been adopted by some internet blockchain communities in China which have issued tokens bearing the mascot's likeness.
The keffiyeh headdress, also known as a shemagh or a ghutra, is designed to protect against the sun, sand and dust.
Ornate Hindu temple opens doors in Islamic UAE
The large white marble building with Indian as well as Emirati architectural flourishes sits in the officially Islamic country's Jebel...The temple, with a distinctive lotus pattern decorating the central skylight, was built at a cost of about $16 million and can house 1,000 people at a time
As well as a temple for all different forms of Hinduism, it will act as a support centre for Indian expatriates, particularly labourers
Moroccan nomads’ way of life threatened by climate change
Rainfall in Morocco is set to decline by 11 percent and average temperatures are set to rise by 1.3 percent...Rainfall in Morocco is set to decline by 11 percent and average temperatures are set to rise by 1.3 percent by 2050, according to forecasts from the Ministry of Agriculture
Severe water shortages have even pushed some nomads to take the rare step of taking out loans to feed their livestock, their most vital asset
Deeply divisive Monroe biopic ‘Blonde’ hits Netflix
While there is almost universal praise for the visceral lead performance by Ana de Armas, critics cannot agree whether the...While there is almost universal praise for the visceral lead performance by Ana de Armas, critics cannot agree whether the nearly three-hour film is an artistic tour de force
For ID magazine, "Blonde" is "guttural, instinctive, anguished filmmaking that bends space, time, and every cinematic tool at its disposal in service of attaining emotional truth."
Balkans library keeps alive its Ottoman link; helps villagers become highly literate
Thanks to a gift of books from passing Ottoman soldiers in the late 19th century, a hamlet in the Balkans...There are tomes in Farsi, Arabic and Turkish along with a whole host of books in Serbo-Croat, the main language of the old Yugoslavia of which the village was once a part
The library helped make the villagers highly literate, with an inordinately large number of them becoming teachers
Israeli researchers find opium residue in 3,500-year-old pottery
Researchers examined whether they had served as containers for the drug, which earlier writing had suggested was used in burial...The joint investigation began in 2012 when excavations in the central Israeli town of Yehud revealed a series of Late Bronze Age graves
Researchers found pottery vessels at the site that resembled poppy flowers from which opium is derived dating back to the 14th century BC
Lebanon’s past echoes its grim present in exhibition
Newspaper clippings, film negatives and diary entries from the years before Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war tell a story of government...The exhibit was born in part from the discovery of the archives of late billionaire Jean Prosper Gay-Para, who owned the once-famous Les Caves du Roy nightclub
Over three decades after the devastating civil war, Lebanon is reeling from a financial crisis that has seen poverty spike as the currency has lost more than 90% of its value
