Kabul, Afghanistan - Since the start of the school year in March, Afghan boys have been required to wear new...
The woman's funerary trousseau, which was presented to reporters at the culture ministry, included a toucan's beak, a stone bowl...
Colorful fireworks lit up the sky during the festival organized by Baghdad municipality to inaugurate the renovated Al-Mutanabbi Street, which...The street's new look comes alongside art exhibitions, gallery openings, book fairs, and festivals reflecting a fledgling cultural renaissance.
Al-Mutanabbi Street was first inaugurated in 1932 by King Faisal I and named after the celebrated 10th-century poet Abul Tayeb al-Mutanabbi.
The brutal occupation of the Homs province by the Islamic State group has left the local Christian community devastated.The town of Al-Qaryatain in Syria’s Homs province was once viewed as a symbol of coexistence between Christians and Muslims
The communities had lived there together for centuries before the Islamic State group seized the area in 2015
In a collaboration between the Mosul fine arts academy, a Belgian theatre company and UNESCO, 19 students are getting a...In a collaboration between the Mosul fine arts academy, a Belgian theatre company and UNESCO, 19 students are getting a chance to make their first short films
Over a four-month course, students get a taste of everything from writing and shooting to acting and editing
- The Confederation of African Football President Patrice Motsepe has confirmed that AFCON 2021 will go ahead as planned in January...
The AFCON will take place in Cameroon starting from January 9 to February 6, 2022 despite deadly surge of the Omicron virus
Nobody would be allowed to set foot in the stadiums without a negative PCR test
- China has launched a sweeping state crackdown on tax evasion and perceived immoral behavior in the entertainment industry. The move...
YouTuber Huang Wei was ordered to pay a record $200 million fine for tax evasion on Monday
Actress Zheng Shuang was in August hit with a $46-million fine for tax evasion
- Hussein's creations are made with a reed pen that he buys from Turkey or Iran. He sometimes sells the work...
Hussein's creations are made with a reed pen that he buys from Turkey or Iran
He sometimes sells the work for posters, shop displays and even tombstones
Prominent world personalities hosted at Rimini Meeting over the years include Pope Francis; Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former UN Secretary-GeneralThe Italy based Rimini Meeting is Europe’s leading cross-cultural entity that hosts the world’s most notable thought and enlightenment leaders
The MoU stipulates the terms for launching mutual initiatives to promote human values, as well as investing in arts, literature and knowledge
- Record crowds of over 700,000 revelers flocked to Saudi Arabia's MDLBeast Soundstorm music festival, authorities said Monday, at the end...
The festival, which ended on a Sunday, comes as Saudi Arabia sees a spike in coronavirus cases amid increased fears over the spread of Omicron
The festival has since its launch in 2019 witnessed large crowds, most of them young men and women, who can freely mingle and dance to western music.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister, on Tuesday launched the UAE Declaration of Arabic Language...The declaration aims to draw out a unified roadmap for various institutions in Arab countries.
The declaration was introduced in the presence of the Arab Ministers of Culture to mark the World Arabic Language Day
- The Iraqi government is trying to restore ancient artifacts from the Mosul museum.
Iraq's 2,500-year-old treasure in Mosul museum is being restored with the help of France's famous Louvre museum
An online exhibition will be held to show the Ancient artefacts as soon as the restoration work is complete
