Arts & Culture
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THE ISLAMIC WORLD THROUGH ART
The British Museum has announced that the Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World will open to the public on…
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THE 70th ANNIVERSARY OF NAKBA
2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the 1948 Palestinian exodus known as the “nakba” which means catastrophe. @70: Celebration of…
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4DX DEBUTS IN RIYADH
In an agreement announced last month, South Korea’s CJ 4DPLEX will partner with Cinemacity, one of the Middle East’s leading cinema…
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WHOLE-ISTIC
It’s often the case that a different, arguably deeper, understanding of a country can come from its arts and culture,…
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SAUDI ART DAYS
Modern Saudi film is evolving rapidly to include diverse, innovative and uniquely Saudi visual narratives, drawing on its deep historical…
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INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION
The prize was awarded to Nasrallah for his novel “The Second War of the Dog” which tells the story of…
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A NEW MUSEUM FOR MARRAKECH
The prime movers behind the new museum are Moroccan art collectors Alami Lazraq and his 29-year-old son, Othman Lazraq, and…
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RAIN OF LIGHT
The Louvre Abu Dhabi will open to the public this month. LEADERS looks at what is set to become one…
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IAM: BUILDING BRIDGES
I AM, a visual art exhibition celebrating the work of Middle Eastern women artists, began its tour of the United…
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SAUDI CINEMA: HISTORY IN THE MAKING
It’s not widely known that as recently as the 1970s there were cinemas in Saudi Arabia but the ultra-conservative clerical…
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