The silent killer … and how to stop it

Sun, 2018-09-30 23:44 DUBAI: The majority of women across the Kingdom and wider Middle East are failing to have routine, potentially life-saving, health screening for breast cancer. Cultural habits and stigmas in the region still surround tests for the disease, despite experts stressing that early detection brings a higher chance of full recovery. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a worldwide annual campaign to highlight...

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What We Are Reading Today: Birds of Central America

Author:  Sun, 2018-09-30 23:31 Book Authors:  Andrew C. Vallely and Dale Dyer   Birds of Central America is the first comprehensive field guide to the avifauna of the entire region, including Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Handy and compact, the book presents text and illustrations for nearly 1,200 resident and migrant species, and information on all rare vagrants. Two hundred...

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Saudi archaeological exhibition to go on display at Louvre Abu Dhabi

Author:  Sun, 2018-09-30 14:34 ABU DHABI: Saudi Arabian artifacts exhibition, Roads of Arabia: Archaeological Treasures of Saudi Arabia, is set to open in the Louvre Abu Dhabi on November 8th under the patronage of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The exhibition, the second of the museum’s new culture season, will explore the rich history of the Arabian Peninsula through archaeological and cultural artefacts,...

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Nora Attal sparkles in Elie Saab

Author:  Sun, 2018-09-30 10:47 DUBAI: British-Moroccan model Nora Attal took to the runway during Saturday night’s Elie Saab Spring/Summer 2019 show in Paris wearing a sober-toned sequined outfit. At Saturday's show, the hugely popular Lebanese designer showed off 58 new outfits that skipped the usual full-throttle, cinched-waist sensuality and energy of his designs, an exception being thigh-high boots. In its place was a more playful...

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What We Are Reading Today: Between Worlds by Leslie Umberger

Author:  Sat, 2018-09-29 22:13 Bill Traylor (ca. 1853–1949) came to art-making on his own and found his creative voice without guidance; today he is remembered as a renowned American artist. Traylor was born into slavery on an Alabama plantation, and his experiences spanned multiple worlds — black and white, rural and urban, old and new — as well as the crucibles that indelibly shaped America — the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim...

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Rihanna shines bright like a diamond in Dubai

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Jefferson Airplane co-founder Balin dead at 76

Author:  AFP ID:  1538193767209481000 Sat, 2018-09-29 03:57 LOS ANGELES: Marty Balin, co-founder of the 1960s California psychedelic rock group Jefferson Airplane, has died aged 76, US media reported on Friday. Born Martyn Jerel Buchwald, Balin was a folk guitarist in San Francisco when he founded Jefferson Airplane with guitarist Paul Kantner. The group released its first album in 1966, but achieved its breakthrough a year...

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Japanese space rovers send photos of asteroid Ryugu

Author:  AP ID:  1538118932451859800 Fri, 2018-09-28 (All day) TOKYO: New photos taken on the surface of an asteroid show that it is (drum roll, please) ... rocky. It may be no surprise, but Japan space agency scientists and engineers are thrilled by the images being sent to Earth by two jumping robotic rovers that they dropped onto an asteroid about 280 million kilometers away. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency posted...

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World’s first human case of rat disease found in Hong Kong

Author:  AFP ID:  1538112179481601400 Fri, 2018-09-28 03:40 HONG KONG: A Hong Kong man has developed the world’s first ever human case of the rat version of the hepatitis E virus, according to new research from one of the city’s leading universities. There had previously been no evidence the disease could jump from rats to humans, the University of Hong Kong said Friday, warning the discovery had “major public health significance.” “This...

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Mexico’s dwarf wrestlers overcome mockery to become stars

Author:  AFP ID:  1538108999691528400 Fri, 2018-09-28 03:45 MEXICO CITY: He is just 90 centimeters (less than three feet) tall, but he packs muscles, power and swagger in a little frame: meet Microman, the smallest star in Mexican professional wrestling. Mexico’s “lucha libre,” a wildly popular mix of sport and entertainment, long featured midgets and dwarves in a deeply demeaning role: they were “mascotas” — a word that...

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What We Are Reading Today: Grit by Angela Duckworth

Author:  Fri, 2018-09-28 01:42 Angela Duckworth’s Grit is an encouraging book on the theory of passion and perseverance being the paramount qualities of success in one’s chosen field.  Duckworth is a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, and is obsessed with finding the answer to the question: “Who is successful and why?”  She has conducted studies involving a diverse range of successful people to determine...

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What We Are Reading Today: Watch Me Play by T. L. Taylor

Author:  Fri, 2018-09-28 00:13 Every day thousands of people broadcast their gaming live to audiences over the internet using popular sites such as Twitch, which reaches more than 100 million viewers a month. In these new platforms for interactive entertainment, big esports events featuring digital game competitors live stream globally, and audiences can interact with broadcasters— and each other— through chat in real time. What...

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Audemars Piguet and Richard Mille to leave Geneva watch fair

Author:  Reuters ID:  1538041042773941600 Thu, 2018-09-27 09:30 ZURICH: Watch brands Audemars Piguet and Richard Mille will withdraw from the Richemont-dominated Geneva watch fair from 2020 to focus on selling directly to consumers rather than via third-party retailers they would meet at the show. Latecomers to the digital space, Swiss luxury watch brands have now realized that e-commerce and social networks are formidable...

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Film review: Fact meets fiction in ambitious drama ‘Yomeddine’

Author:  Saffiya Ansar ID:  1538030494043579800 Thu, 2018-09-27 09:40 EL GOUNA: It takes phenomenal guts for a first-time director to tackle a subject such as leprosy, with an actual victim of the disease in the lead role. A. B. Shawky’s “Yomeddine,” which screened at the El Gouna Film Festival this week, is a touching road-trip drama starring Rady Gamal, a real-life leprosy survivor. The director met Gamal at a leper colony...

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Still standing: Why El Gouna is vital for Arab filmmakers

Author:  Saffiya Ansar ID:  1538029101393518900 Thu, 2018-09-27 09:17 DUBAI: Regional filmmakers, producers, actors and cinema enthusiasts gathered in the Egyptian town of El Gouna this week to watch a diverse selection of films from the Arab world and embrace the cultural exchange it offers. Already known for discovering new voices and being a catalyst for the development of cinema in the region, the second edition of the...

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The Six: Traditional beauty tricks, from bat’s blood to mayonnaise

Author:  Saffiya Ansar ID:  1538026555223475800 Thu, 2018-09-27 08:35 DUBAI: From bat’s blood to mayonnaise, these traditional beauty hacks from the region are certainly not your average spa treatment and while we don’t recommend you try these without a medical professional’s go-ahead, they are well-worth a read. Bat’s Blood It’s possibly an old wives’ tale, but it is said that if you rub bat’s blood on a new born child they...

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Golden-age glitterati return on canvas to old Lebanon hotel

Author:  AFP ID:  1538023433153375400 Thu, 2018-09-27 03:03 SOFAR, Lebanon: Inside an abandoned century-old hotel near Lebanon’s capital, paintings of the Arab world’s once powerful and famous hang around a worn poker table, testimony to its glamorous past before the civil war. Arab diplomats, French and British officers, but also Egyptian film stars all flocked to the Sofar Grand Hotel before the 1975-1990 conflict forced...

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‘Dear Son’ is a superb study of a failing family

Wed, 2018-09-26 23:28 EL GOUNA: Tunisian writer-director Mohamed Ben Attia made his mark with his first feature, “Hedi,” in which a young man challenged familial and societal norms by marrying the woman of his choice, a decision seen as a radical move in his conservative Islamic community. Attia further explores the concepts of freedom and free will in his second film, “Dear Son,” which screened this week at the El Gouna Film Festival in Egypt,...

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Dancing queen: Abba-period Cher has a new army of devotees

Author:  Wed, 2018-09-26 22:57 LOS ANGELES: Cher has a stately air as she receives a steady line of journalists in a West Hollywood hotel room with the studied equanimity of Catherine the Great addressing her subjects at the Winter Palace. If Madonna is the Queen of Pop then Cher is surely the Empress of Entertainment, surveying the spoils of a showbiz career that has reaped a best actress Oscar, three Golden Globes, an Emmy, a Grammy...

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Post Malone to headline Abu Dhabi Grand Prix concert

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Hijab support group nabs Facebook award

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Lana El-Sahely gets biker chic in Paris

Author:  Saffiya Ansar ID:  1537951558725504100 Wed, 2018-09-26 11:45 DUBAI: Lebanese fashion blogger Lana El-Sahely showed off her style at Paris Fashion Week, posing for cameras at the coveted Dior show earlier this week. Dior led Paris fashion week on a sensual dance Monday with a spectacular show woven around a new modern dance piece by choreographer Sharon Eyal to kick off the nine-day extravaganza. For her part, El-Sahely...

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