Dubai Media City, DMC, has announced the launch of a new competition for aspiring artists that seeks to foster local and regional talent, leading an exciting graffiti art movement within…

 Umer Farooq's grandfather and father made bagpipes. Now he is the third generation to take up the tradition in Pakistan, which is thousands of kilometres from Scotland yet sells thousands…

On the domed roof of a historical market in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, architect Bassel al-Daher moves between workers painstakingly working to erase the scars of war. Men…

Onjali Q Rauf’s The Boy At The Back Of The Class won best story in the 2019 Blue Peter Book Awards. A children’s book about a Syrian refugee has been…

Emirati actor and director Hamid Sambeij has passed away on Saturday, March 9, 2019, leaving behind a long acting career in theatre and TV. He was 55. The late Sambeij…

The Swedish Academy released a statement claiming it has the opportunity 'to become a better-functioning organisation in the future' The Nobel Prize for Literature will be awarded twice this year…

In 50 days, the UAE will witness Sharjah officially inaugurating a 365-day programme to celebrate the World Book Capital title, which it brought home last year. Sharjah is the first…

Thirteen years after his departure, late Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz returns to tell his stories about the alleys, coffeehouses and marginalized characters, through 18 stories that had not hitherto been…

The annual event, which runs until March 9, saw former ballerina Darcey Bussell, historian Peter Frankopan and Iraqi novelist Shahad Al Rawi discussing their respective works Grace on the page…

A computer-generated portrait of a face that will change and mutate forever is among the works that went on display in London on Friday ahead of a major art auction…