Sheikh Salem bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Director of Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority (SCTDA), crowned international football legends Alessandro Florenzi, former Roma defender and Italy national team player, and Fernando Llorente, former Athletic Bilbao, Tottenham striker, and Spain national team player, as champions of the
At six o’clock on Friday evening, January 9, 2026, a new virtual session will convene as part of the Creative Encounters on the Silk Road series, opening the new year with an open dialogue on children’s and young adult literature—one of the literary fields most deeply connected to shaping awareness and nurturing imagination.
The year 2025 was rich in movement, travel, and multi-directional cultural work—a year in which geography intersected with creativity, and personal experience converged with public cultural action, grounded in a firm belief in the role of the word, art, and knowledge in building bridges among peoples.
Major Journeys of the Year:
The Book “Nuclear Explosion: Selected Works of Representative Poets from the Three Major Poetry Movements in the World Today” Published in China
Hong Kong, 2025 — The highly anticipated international poetry anthology “Nuclear Explosion: Selected Works of Representative Poets from the Three Major Poetry Movements in
A French team of excavators found hundreds of funerary figurines in a pharaoh's tomb in Tanis, Egypt, in early October, uncovering a long-standing mystery of who was buried in the sarcophagus.
A treasure trove of 225 funerary figurines has been discovered inside a tomb in the ancient Egyptian capital of Tanis in the Nile Delta, a rare
