Female writers dominate this year’s shortlist for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, with seven of the nine titles in the running written by women. Three works are competing in each…
Coinciding with the upcoming virtual poetry evening to be hosted by the Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation via its online platform on Sunday, March 21, 2021, for Winners…
Algerian artist Rachid Koraichi, French scholar Henry Laurens and Palestinian filmmaker Mohammad Bakri have won the 12th iteration of the Mahmoud Darwish Award for Creativity. The winners were announced on…
The Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation, in collaboration with the American University in Dubai (AUD), has hosted a virtual evening of short stories under the title of “Words…
The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) received the fourth gilded shrine of the 'Boy Pharaoh', King Tutankhamun from the Tahrir Museum. The shrine, said Supervisor General of the GEM project Major…
A French-Norwegian archaeological team has discovered new Christian ruins in Egypt’s Western Desert, revealing monastic life in the region in the fifth century AD, the Egyptian antiquities ministry said Saturday.…
Jordanian poet and former Minister of Culture Grace Hanna Samawy has passed away on Thursday, March 11, 2021. He was 65. Grace Hanna Samawy was born in Amman in 1956.…
The Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation, in collaboration with the American University in Dubai (AUD), will be hosting a virtual evening of short stories under the title of…
It looks like famously anonymous street artist Banksy is back again, doing what he does best — clandestinely painting graffiti. A piece of art possibly painted by Banksy has appeared overnight on…
Organizers of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) have revealed the titles longlisted for the 2021 edition of the prize, which is worth USD $50,000. The 2021 longlist includes…
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