DUBAI: For its first edition in the Arab World, the international Hay Festival will arrive in the UAE on Feb. 24, at Abu Dhabi’s Manarat Al-Saadiyat and other venues across the city, UAE’s Ministry of Tolerance announced Wednesday. The four-day event will host workshops, artistic performances, new technology discovery, storytelling and many more art and literature-related…
SHARJAH: Pictures taken for Arab News featuring some of Saudi Arabia’s most successful professional women will go under the spotlight at a major photography event taking place in the UAE. Works from the newspaper’s The Face series, shot by Saudi lensman Ziyad Alarfaj, will be on display throughout the fourth edition of the Xposure International…
CAPE CANAVERAL: Brad Pitt, star of the new space movie “Ad Astra,” had a burning question for a real-life astronaut. “Who was more believable? Clooney or Pitt?” In a televised call Monday, NASA astronaut Nick Hague answered Pitt — “absolutely” — getting a big laugh. Pitt's Hollywood pal George Clooney starred in the 2013 space…
NEW YORK: Streaming giant Netflix said Monday it had acquired the global rights to popular American sitcom “Seinfeld” from 2021 — a feather in its cap as the battle among online video platforms for coveted content heats up. The company did not reveal the value of the transaction. But the move was a bit of a…
DUBAI: Lebanese-Australian model and influencer Jessica Kahawaty jetted to Milan this week to support her favorite Italian football team Inter Milan, which she incidentally models for. Kahawaty is also expected to attend Milan Fashion Week, set to take place from Sept. 17-23. The model teased her 898,000 followers, writing on her Instagram Story, “NYC-Milano for something big…
DUBAI: Emirati designer Ahmed Khyeli showed off his ethereal new collection at London Fashion Week on Sunday, just before British-Afghani designer Osman Yousefzada and Omani label Atelier Zuhra showcased their latest lines on Monday. Yousefzada’s eponymous label OSMAN staged a showcase of the designer’s dreamy Spring/Summer 2020 collection, complete with frothy tulle, vibrant jungle prints and more…
DUBAI: Emirati designer Ahmed Khyeli showed off his ethereal new collection at London Fashion Week on Sunday, just before British-Afghani designer Osman Yousefzada and Omani label Atelier Zuhra showcased their latest lines on Monday. Yousefzada’s eponymous label OSMAN staged a showcase of the designer’s dreamy Spring/Summer 2020 collection, complete with frothy tulle, vibrant jungle prints and more…
VENICE: Dubbed Afghanistan’s first female director, Sahraa Karimi grew up in Iran with her refugee parents, and later studied cinema in Slovakia. With 30 shorts and a couple of documentaries under her belt, she travelled this year to the Venice Film Festival with her debut fiction feature, “Hava, Maryam, Ayesha.” Studying and making movies in…
DUBAI: Co-produced by Image Nation Abu Dhabi, the critically-acclaimed documentary “Free Solo’” has won seven Creative Arts Emmy Awards, adding to a slate of honors that already includes a BAFTA and an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The documentary picked up every award for which it was nominated at Saturday’s ceremony in Los Angeles,…
In Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell investigates what goes wrong when we interact with people we don’t know, using dramatic scenarios ripped from the headlines, history, psychology, and criminology. “No one shows us who we are like Gladwell. Here he sets out to understand why we act the way we do, and how we all…
JEDDAH: A world-renowned drummer behind a famous European music academy is hoping to use his expertise to propel budding Saudi artists onto the international stage. German percussionist and composer, Prof. Udo Dahmen, has offered consultancy support to any music schools, similar to his Popakademie Baden-Württemberg institution in Germany, setting up in Saudi Arabia in a…
Author: Robert Pondiscio This is an inside look at America’s most controversial charter schools, and the moral and political questions around public education and school choice.In How the Other Half Learns, teacher and education journalist Robert Pondiscio focuses on Success Academy, the network of controversial charter schools in New York City founded by Eva Moskowitz, who…
DUBAI: When Mohammed Kazem was 14, he joined the Emirates Fine Art Society, which had been founded just four years earlier, in 1980. At the time, art was not part of the curriculum at Kazem’s school (nor, indeed, at many schools in the GCC). “Once a week, maybe, they would give us some paper and…
JEDDAH: A world-renowned drummer behind a famous European music academy is hoping to use his expertise to propel budding Saudi artists onto the international stage. German percussionist and composer, Prof. Udo Dahmen, has offered consultancy support to any music schools, similar to his Popakademie Baden-Württemberg institution in Germany, setting up in Saudi Arabia in a…
DUBAI: As seen in the past years, the Saudi National Day, marked every Sept. 23, has been widely celebrated by different countries, not just in the region, but in the world. As its 89th year celebration approaches, we look at upcoming celebrations, as well as a quick throwback to what countries did last year to…
DUBAI: As seen in the past years, the Saudi National Day, marked every Sept. 23, has been widely celebrated by different countries, not just in the region, but in the world. As its 89th year celebration approaches, we look at upcoming celebrations, as well as a quick throwback to what countries did last year to…
DUBAI: As seen in the past years, the Saudi National Day, marked every Sept. 23, has been widely celebrated by different countries, not just in the region, but in the world. As its 89th year celebration approaches, we look at upcoming celebrations, as well as a quick throwback to what countries did last year to…
DUBAI: A-Cold-Wall, founded by Virgil Abloh protégé Samuel Ross, and Diesel Red Tag unveiled their hotly-anticipated collaborative capsule collection during New York Fashion Week via an installation, which took over SoHo’s Grand Street on Sept. 10. Ahead of the big reveal, the brands celebrated the launch by hosting a glamorous dinner that was attended by a…
VENICE: American actor Nate Parker made a huge impact with his 2016 directorial debut, “The Birth of a Nation,” screened at the Sundance Film Festival. He also acted in it – a period drama set in 1831 about a slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia. The movie, bought for a record…
VENICE: American actor Nate Parker made a huge impact with his 2016 directorial debut, “The Birth of a Nation,” screened at the Sundance Film Festival. He also acted in it – a period drama set in 1831 about a slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia. The movie, bought for a record…
