In 2002, Steven Spielberg directed a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, based on a true story that seemed closer to fiction. The protagonist, Frank Abagnale Jr., a teenager not yet nineteen, succeeded in impersonating a pilot, a doctor, and a lawyer, amassing millions while evading the pursuit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation across three
“What is Iran today?” With this deceptively simple question, the late President Anwar Sadat offered one of the earliest and most prescient readings of post-revolutionary Iran—not as a state that merely changed its political system, but as one that entered a fundamentally different trajectory.
President Anwar
“Civilizations die by suicide, not by murder.” With this striking observation, the British historian Arnold Toynbee summarized in his renowned study on the rise and fall of civilizations one of the profound truths of history: nations do not collapse merely because crises occur, but because they fail to respond to them.
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Under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, the second edition of the Abu Dhabi Poetry Festival will commence tomorrow, Monday.
Organised by the Abu Dhabi Heritage Authority, the festival will run until 11th February at ADNEC Centre
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.
