Palestinian prisoner in Israel wins top fiction prize
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Palestinian writer Basim Khandaqji, jailed 20 years ago in Israel, won a prestigious prize for...Arts & Culture
Saudi Film “Norah”, backed by Red Sea Fund, secures official selection at Cannes
Directed by Tawfik Alzaidi, this Saudi film earned its place in the 'Un Certain Regard' section of the prestigious festival,...Arts & Culture
Dystopia, BLM themes emerge at Art Basel fair
The giant annual fair in the Swiss city of Basel is above all a commercial event, where artists and galleries...The giant annual fair in the Swiss city of Basel is above all a commercial event, where artists and galleries come to meet wealthy collectors
Art Basel exhibits major works every year in a section where paintings, sculptures and installations are grouped together for sale to museums and large collections
Sharjah turns to Italy to digitize rare manuscripts
The move will see the digitization of more than 2,500 rare Arabic manuscripts dating back to more than 450 years.The Sharjah Book Authority has turned to the Milan-based Italian library Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana to digitize manuscripts
VBA’s Arabic manuscripts collection is considered one of the most important in Italy
Morocco: Oldest bone tools for clothesmaking found
The international team discovered more than 60 tools in Contrebandiers (Smugglers) Cave, less than 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the...The international team discovered more than 60 tools in Contrebandiers (Smugglers) Cave, less than 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the North African country's capital.
The discovery could help answer questions on the origins of modern human behaviour, said El Hajraoui, a researcher at the National Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (I
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
