Belgium’s Africa Museum, once a triumphant celebration of the country’s colonial past, is to reopen after years of renovations, with a more critical view on a dark piece of history.…

Dubai has become the first city in the Middle East and 24th in the world to be appointed a UNESCO Creative City of Design. During a press conference held on…

Founder of the UAE to be the subject of a biopic from Elizabeth director and Bad Moms producer Sheikh Zayed, founding father of the UAE, is set to be the subject…

Veteran Tunisian critic, academic and author Hussein Al Wad has passed away on Saturday, June 2, 2018. He was 70. Al Wad leaves behind a rich cultural legacy. According to…

Since its inception in 2010, the Mobile Library, a project by the Sharjah-based cultural initiative Knowledge without Borders (KwB), has established a unique service to bring a culture of reading…

We visit the Venice Architecture Biennale to see how a bookish history inspired the European nation’s pavilion One pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale is encouraging visitors to sit and read,…

Sharjah Book Authority, SBA, has successfully highlighted the rich publishing experience of Sharjah and the UAE at BookExpo America 2018, which took place recently at the Javits Convention Center in…

A Vincent Van Gogh landscape from early in his career will be sold at auction in Paris on June 4, the first auction of the artist's work in France in…

Veteran Egyptian Actress Madiha Yousri has passed away on Tuesday, May 29, 2018. She was 96. Yousri’s acting career spanned over seven decades.   Yousri, who was considered one of…

Police in Russia arrested a man on charges of vandalising a famous painting by renowned Russian artist Ilya Repin in Moscow. Russian news reports said the man claimed he drank…