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By Iqbal Tamimi Alhoush artistic project is organising a momentous celebration of Palestinian artist’s visual arts. Their new exhibition about how they see Gaza, is going to cross all boundaries since it will display their... Read more
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Islamic masterworks go on show in Doha US-based Sotheby’s, one of the world’s largest auctioneers of fine and decorative art, is staging an exhibition of Islamic arts in Qatar this weekend. Artefacts valued at millions of dollars... Read more
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The Etel Adnan Award for Women Playwrights 2012: Valantina Abu Oqsa is the 2012 laureate of the Etel Adnan Award
Read moreAMMAN — TAGpedia, an online encyclopaedia conceived with the aim of increasing the amount of Arabic content on the web, is scheduled to launch in December with about 500,000 articles in Arabic
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Bristol Palestine Film Festival has launched in campaign to raise funds for 2012. The festival began in 2011 and attracted over 500 people to its events, receiving extensive media coverage, including several interviews on BBC... Read more
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A timely and powerful symbol of the recognition by Scotland’s Islamic communities of their national identity has been registered on 29 June 2012 as official Scottish Islamic Tartan, set out in the Scottish Register of... Read more
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By Iqbal Tamimi Every year, hundreds of people, most of them women, are attacked with acid in Pakistan. Many cases go unreported. Academy Award winning Documentary: SAVING FACE is a powerful and moving documentary about one of... Read more
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By Iqbal Tamimi Women have been banned from a talent show in Saudi Arabia. The city of Buraydah in Saudi Arabia has created its own version of “Britain Got Talent” television reality show, but women are banned from taking part... Read more
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Twickenham Films, the London-based firm behind the recently announced $97m Saladin movie, on Tuesday said its Film Academy plans for Bahrain should be operational by the end of 2013. The company, which is looking to produce more films in the... Read more
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The first Saudi feature film is directed by a Saudi woman and talks about a Saudi woman’s dream By Iqbal Tamimi It has been a gigantic leap for Saudi women to Cannes 2012 Festival. The Saudi female filmmaker unveiled the dreams of ‘Wadjidah’... Read more