Each week in this new series we analyse a piece of art that is on show in the UAE. Here we look at the remarkable ‘Fountain of Light’ When Louvre…
During a career that spanned more than 50 years, he was chief conductor of a number of orchestras both inside and outside Russia Russian conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky has died at…
The 130,000 manuscripts and historical documents that Aristophil had its investors sink their savings into are now being dispersed in auctions over the next six years The manuscripts are part…
Iconic Egyptian actress Amal Farid died in a hospital in Cairo on Tuesday morning. Farid was born on 12 February 1938 in Cairo's Abbassiya district, and was a graduate of…
Egypt’s Supreme Council for Culture has announced the winners of the Nile Awards for Literature, Arts and Social Sciences, which is considered the most prestigious award in Egypt in the…
Google marked what would have been the 90th birthday of late Algerian painter M'hamed Issiakhem with a Google Doodle featuring the artist at the background of his painting submerged in…
Jordanian poet Ziyad Hadeeb, member of the Jordanian Writers’ Union, has passed away last weekend. The late poet was born in Al Aroob camp in 1958, and had obtained a…
Ibrahim Nasrallah, who won this year’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction, talks about his prize-winning novel and the brutality inherent in human beings When I speak to Ibrahim Nasrallah, he…
H.E. Hussein bin Ibrahim Al Hammadi, UAE’s Minister of Education, has lately been named 'Arab Cultural Personality of the Year 2018' by the Union of Arab Creators (UAC) in Cairo.…
This summer, DC Comics will reboot the standalone ‘Superman’ series, with writer Brian Michael Bendis tapped to lead the way In an era when superheroes seem to be everywhere —…
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