H.H. Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairperson of Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) and Member of the Dubai Council, visited the third edition of the ‘Al Marmoom: Film in the Desert’ festival, organised by Dubai Culture at Al Marmoom Desert Conservation Reserve.
The festival, a key highlight
The Gulf Capital – ADMAF Visual Arts Award 2023 announced filmmaker and writer Sarra’a Abdulaziz Al Shehhi as the winner of its 10th edition, recognising excellence in the visual arts. The award, presented annually by Gulf Capital in partnership with the Abu Dhabi Music Arts Foundation (ADMAF), seeks to support and nurture
The Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) revealed on Sunday the winning works in the 6th edition of the Sharjah Film Platform awards, held from 8th to 17th December, 2023.
The latest edition of the platform showcased a diverse selection of over 50 films from various places of the globe. These films celebrated the spirit of independent and
Recently published in the Silk Road Literature Series is the book (Karim Khakimov, a Biography), about the fate of Islam and communism in Soviet Russia, written by the iconic Russian diplomat Oleg Ozerov, translated into Arabic by: Dr. Muhammad Nasr al-Din al-Jabali and Dr. Adel Muhammad Siddiq.
In his introduction to the book
We are not exaggerating when we emphasize the exceptional role that the great novelist Naguib Mahfouz played and influenced in contemporary Arab culture; a role that transcended the boundaries of literary narration to the spaces of the arts that touched them. If cinema is the most important and most famous of these arts, then I am writing on
