PORT SAID: When Mohamed Ghaly’s workshop was reduced to rubble in February, he could never imagine that a new cultural center dedicated to an instrument with Pharaonic roots would thrive just months later.The semsemia, similar to a harp and made of beechwood with steel strings, is believed to have ancient Egyptian roots. It appears on…
DUBAI: The 2019 Venice Biennale marked the first time that Pakistan has had a national pavilion at the world’s oldest and most prestigious contemporary art show. The Pakistan pavilion presented a solo exhibition of the conceptual, multi-disciplinary artist Naiza Khan, who works between London and Karachi. Her experimental oeuvre reflects her thoughtful depiction and analysis of…
JEDDAH: A Saudi restaurant in South Korea has proved so successful that its owner has been forced to find bigger premises. Alaa Mandora moved to Seoul seven years ago. The 33-year-old from Saudi Arabia graduated from the city’s Sogang University with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, and worked for an information technology company for…
CAIRO: Madagascar’s fairy tale came to an end at the African Cup of Nations as the underdog was beaten 3-0 by Tunisia in the quarterfinals on Thursday.Tunisia scored twice in eight minutes after halftime, and again in injury time. The North Africans controlled the game completely.That set up a semifinal for Tunisia against Senegal and…
CAIRO: Madagascar’s fairy tale came to an end at the African Cup of Nations as the underdog was beaten 3-0 by Tunisia in the quarterfinals on Thursday.Tunisia scored twice in eight minutes after halftime, and again in injury time. The North Africans controlled the game completely.That set up a semifinal for Tunisia against Senegal and…
CAIRO: Madagascar’s fairy tale came to an end at the African Cup of Nations as the underdog was beaten 3-0 by Tunisia in the quarterfinals on Thursday.Tunisia scored twice in eight minutes after halftime, and again in injury time. The North Africans controlled the game completely.That set up a semifinal for Tunisia against Senegal and…
FRANKFURT AM MAIN: German auto giant Daimler, maker of Mercedes-Benz, on Friday slashed its 2019 profit forecast for the second time in a few weeks, after booking a $1.8 billion (€1.6 billion) operating loss in the second quarter.By comparison, between April and June last year, the Stuttgart-based group chalked up operating profit of €2.6 billion.But…
FRANKFURT AM MAIN: German auto giant Daimler, maker of Mercedes-Benz, on Friday slashed its 2019 profit forecast for the second time in a few weeks, after booking a $1.8 billion (€1.6 billion) operating loss in the second quarter.By comparison, between April and June last year, the Stuttgart-based group chalked up operating profit of €2.6 billion.But…
SHENZHEN, China: The chairman of Huawei said Friday the Chinese tech giant has yet to see any benefit from President Donald Trump’s promise to allow US companies to sell some components to the company and called on Washington to remove it from a security blacklist.The “unjust and unfair” decision to add Huawei Technologies, the biggest…
Protesters disrupt world’s largest Christian Zionist summit over Israeli occupation of Palestine AMMAN: Interfaith peace activists heckled speakers at the summit of the world’s largest Christian Zionist organization in a protest over the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Demonstrators were forcibly ejected from the Washington meeting by security staff after disrupting the speeches of key convention…
Protesters disrupt world’s largest Christian Zionist summit over Israeli occupation of Palestine AMMAN: Interfaith peace activists heckled speakers at the summit of the world’s largest Christian Zionist organization in a protest over the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Demonstrators were forcibly ejected from the Washington meeting by security staff after disrupting the speeches of key convention…
KABUL: Afghan commandos must be prosecuted after they “executed” four civilians during a night raid on a medical clinic in central Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said Friday.Doctors and hospitals have been frequently targeted during the country’s decades-long conflict, with 2019 already proving far deadlier than last year for aid workers.Several witnesses told the US-based non-governmental…
CAIRO: Members of a militant cell linked to the banned Muslim Brotherhood group have been arrested in Kuwait, the interior ministry said on Friday. The arrested people were wanted by Egyptian authorities, the ministry added in its statement. Members of the cell had escaped and were evading Egyptian authorities, making Kuwait the center of their…
GENEVA: Thirty men were sentenced to death by Houthi authorities in Yemen this week amid credible allegations that many were tortured during three years of politically-motivated detention, the UN human rights office said on Friday.It urged the Appellate Court in the Houthi-held capital of Sanaa, which is due to review the ruling, to take into…
DUBAI: Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards used drones and missiles to strike the headquarters of a Kurdish militant group near Iran's border with neighbouring Iraq's Kurdistan region, the Iranian semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Friday."A large number of terrorists were killed and wounded in the attacks that had started from Wednesday to target terrorist headquarters and…
TheFace: Munirah Alsanani — from reluctant gift recipient to ardent collector of Arabian artefacts I was born in Najd in the small town of Onaizah, north of Riyadh, before electricity had come to the province. As an infant, I moved with my mother and her family to the small port town of Jubail in the…
TheFace: Munirah Alsanani — from reluctant gift recipient to ardent collector of Arabian artefacts I was born in Najd in the small town of Onaizah, north of Riyadh, before electricity had come to the province. As an infant, I moved with my mother and her family to the small port town of Jubail in the…
TheFace: Munirah Alsanani — from reluctant gift recipient to ardent collector of Arabian artefacts I was born in Najd in the small town of Onaizah, north of Riyadh, before electricity had come to the province. As an infant, I moved with my mother and her family to the small port town of Jubail in the…
Innovation is our profession... Book Your Free Presentation... For your Personal and Business Website Call/Whats 0n: +9613476343 or +9613476303 #websitelaunch...
