Red Sea Global releases ‘Red Sea Waves,’ its first music album
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Red Sea Global (RSG), the developer behind The Red Sea and Amaala, the Saudi tourism destinations,...Arts & Culture
Saudi Arabia cracks down on heritage site defacement with hefty fines
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia has issued a stern warning against damaging the nation's cultural heritage sites, imposing hefty...Arts & Culture
Expo 2020: AR Rahman introduces Firdaus Orchestra
A total of 50 musicians — aged between 16 and 51 — from 23 countries in the region have come...The Firdaus Orchestra will perform at concerts at Expo 2020 Dubai
The concerts will feature works composed by Rahman for the orchestra’s inaugural performance
Woman turns home into school in war-torn Yemen
Amina Mahdi had already been teaching children to read and write before the outbreak of the impoverished country's devastating war...More than 2,500 schools in the country are unfit for use, with some destroyed and others turned into refugee camps.
UNICEF has estimated that two million children were without school even before the coronavirus pandemic.
Expo 2020 launches official song ‘This Is Our Time’
The song, called This Is Our Time, is four minutes and 18 seconds long, is available on several platforms for...The song features UAE-based artiste Hussain Al Jassmi, who is also an Expo 2020 Ambassador
He is accompanied by Lebanese-American singer-songwriter Mayssa Karaa, and Emirati singer-songwriter Almas
US to return 3,500-year-old ‘Gilgamesh’ tablet to Iraq
It was seized by the US Justice Department in 2019, two years after US billionaire David Green opened a museum...UNESCO called the repatriation a 'victory' in the fight against illicit trafficking of cultural objects.
The rare fragment recounts a dream sequence from the Gilgamesh epic in Akkadian cuneiform script.
Double-digit growth for Middle East cities
Except Beirut, most Middle Eastern cities have witnessed growth in double digits in terms of population from 2015 until 2021.Manama registered 51% growth in population between the years 2015 and 2021
Economic, social and political crises have impacted the overall growth of the Lebanese capital
‘Change the game’: Supermodel Halima Aden reinvents modest fashion
Aden became the first contestant in a US state beauty pageant in 2016 to wear a hijab and a burkini.She will be designing collections exclusively for a Turkish online brand.
World capitals as diverse as Moscow, Riyadh and London have staged modest fashion shows in the past few years.
Former Daesh bastion echoes with chimes of church bell
A bell was inaugurated at a church in Mosul on Saturday to the cheers of Iraqi Christians, seven years after...Dozens of faithful stood by as Father Pios Affas rang the newly installed bell for the first time at the Syriac Christian church of Mar Tuma
the bell weighing 285kg was cast in Lebanon with donations from a French NGO
Netflix eyes Emmys with ‘The Crown’
Since the online platform launched in 2007, leading streamer has never won for best drama at the small-screen version of...Since the online platform launched in 2007, leading streamer has never won for best drama at the small-screen version of the Oscars
As well as "The Crown," the streaming giant is banking on the wildly popular "The Queen's Gambit."
Broadway celebrates return of hit shows
"Hamilton," "Wicked," "The Lion King" and "Chicago" resumed performances, to the delight, and relief, of the industry and theater lovers."Hamilton," "Wicked," "The Lion King" and "Chicago" resumed performances, to the delight, and relief, of the industry and theater lovers
Broadway theaters have been gradually re-opening throughout September but Tuesday heralds the collective return of some of its most popular shows.
Pageants, races drive camel cloning demand
Cloning is in demand not only for beauty pageants and races but also for reproducing camels that produce large amounts...Some clients will pay between $54,500-$109,000 to duplicate a "beauty queen".
Dubai claimed the world's first cloned camel, Injaz (achievement in Arabic), on April 8, 2009.
