Gwen Stefani wows fans at Dubai World Cup

Sun, 2019-03-31 17:23 DUBAI: US pop star Gwen Stefani closed the Dubai World Cup with a spectacular performance, joining the legacy of stars such as Jennifer Lopez and Kylie Minogue, who have headlined the event in the recent years. The 49-year-old artist performed after the world’s richest horse race on Saturday night at the Meydan Racecourse’s Apron Views. “Dubai, can’t wait to see you tonight,” Stefani wrote on Instagram before the concert,...

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Earliest photo of Makkah on display at the Louvre Abu Dhabi

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Hidden Treasures: The jewelry of Saudi Arabia goes on display in Dubai

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What We Are Reading Today: The Mastermind by Evan Ratliff

Author:  Sat, 2019-03-30 23:46 The Mastermind by Evan Ratliff is a non-fiction true crime book that focuses on the rise of Paul Calder Le Roux.  It is the incredible true story of the decade-long quest to bring down Le Roux — the creator of a frighteningly powerful internet-enabled cartel who merged the ruthlessness of a drug lord with the technological savvy of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Award-winning investigative journalist...

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What We Are Reading Today: Thin Blue Lie by Matt Stroud

Author:  Fri, 2019-03-29 20:55 Matt Stroud, the author of Thin Blue Lie, is an investigative reporter with a focus on companies that do business with police departments and prisons.  Norm Stamper, former Seattle police chief, said in a review that Stroud has “given us the definitive case against ‘high-tech’ policing.”  Stamper added: “While Stroud does not discount the potential good that can come from sophisticated technologies,...

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Where We Are Going Today: Pulse Fitness Studio in Jeddah

Thu, 2019-03-28 22:22 Pulse, a fitness concept studio in Jeddah, offers coaching and exercise classes for women in an environment that encourages an inclusive, social, community experience.  Led by an all-female group of certified trainers, its mission is to empower women of all fitness levels. Children are also encouraged to join and learn about physical fitness and a healthy lifestyle. Members can take a variety of classes at their...

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What We Are Reading Today: Bending Toward Justice

Thu, 2019-03-28 21:03 Bending Toward Justice is a dramatic and compulsively readable account of a key moment in America’s struggle for equality, related by an author who played a major role in these events.  A distinguished work of legal and personal history, the book is destined to take its place as a canonical civil rights history. The book provides an inside look at how author Doug Jones, a former US attorney from Birmingham, and his...

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Singapore defends UN bid for street food honor

Author:  AFP ID:  1553759604488715400 Thu, 2019-03-28 07:51 SINGAPORE: Singapore on Thursday defended nominating its street food for UN recognition as a bid to “safeguard” local culture after the move sparked a cross-border culinary clash with Malaysia. The city-state is home to many open-air food courts where vendors, known as “hawkers,” serve dishes such as chicken and rice, noodles and satays at relatively cheap prices. Singapore...

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Get your ‘moves like Jagger’ ready: Maroon 5 back in Dubai

Thu, 2019-03-28 09:34 DUBAI: American pop-rock band Maroon 5, responsible for radio hits “Girls like you” and “This love,” is performing in Dubai this year, although exact details of the upcoming concert has yet to be announced. The band, led by its front man Adam Levine, is currently on a 60-date world tour that started in South America. It is not confirmed when the band is heading to Dubai, but numerous reports indicate it might likely happen...

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Southern Asians unaware of deadly health risks from polluted air

Author:  Reuters ID:  1553753535938569800 Thu, 2019-03-28 06:00 KUALA LUMPUR: Most people in South and Southeast Asia do not know about the diverse causes and long-term health risks of air pollution, a problem that kills 1.5 million people in those regions each year, researchers warned on Thursday. A study by Vital Strategies, a public health advisory group, analyzed more than half a million news articles and social media...

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What We Are Reading Today: A Lot of People Are Saying

Wed, 2019-03-27 23:38 Authors: Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new—conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the fringes to the heart of government with the election of Donald Trump.  In “A Lot of People Are Saying,” Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum show how the new conspiracism differs from classic conspiracy...

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Danny DeVito talks reuniting with Tim Burton for ‘Dumbo’

Wed, 2019-03-27 13:39 DUBAI: Danny DeVito has played lowlifes, criminals and scoundrels over the past 40 years, but he’s done so with such joy that he’s become perhaps one of the most beloved actors alive today. In Disney’s “Dumbo,” DeVito plays Max Medici, the head of a travelling circus that discovers one of its young elephants can fly with its oversized ears. The film, a live-action remake of the classic animation, marks his fifth collaboration...

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Shakira defends her song against plagiarism in Spanish court

Author:  AP ID:  1553683122891475300 Wed, 2019-03-27 10:33 MADRID: Colombian singers Shakira and Carlos Vives have appeared in a Madrid court to answer allegations by a Cuban-born singer and producer that they plagiarized his work in their award-winning hit “La Bicicleta.” Shakira smiled as she entered the court in downtown Madrid on Wednesday. She didn’t answer reporters’ questions. Shakira and Vives have previously rejected...

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Saffron Vadher models Ramadan-ready designer collections

Wed, 2019-03-27 12:24 DUBAI: British-Indian model Saffron Vadher has appeared in a new campaign by e-tailer Net-a-Porter for its Ramadan capsule collections by 17 international designers. The luxury ecommerce platform curated the selection of exclusive capsule collections by the like of Ralph & Russo, Jenny Packham, Naeem Khan, Carolina Herrera, Galvan and more. “The interest in special pieces designed specifically for Ramadan...

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Nadine Labaki is the first Arab president of the Un Certain Regard jury at Cannes

Author:  Wed, 2019-03-27 10:49 Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki has been named as the president of the Un Certain Regard jury in Cannes — becoming the first Arab to hold the position. The festival said Labaki had been chosen after “moving hearts and minds at the last Festival de Cannes with her Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated ‘Capernaum,’ which won the Jury Prize.” She succeeds Benicio...

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High Hopes: Winners of HIPA photography awards 2019

Wed, 2019-03-27 10:03 The eighth season of the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Awards (HIPA) concluded on March 12 with a prize-giving ceremony at Dubai Opera House at which the winners were announced. The theme of this year’s awards was ‘Hope,’ but, as always, photographers could also enter the ‘General’ category (for either black-and-white or color images). There were two further categories this year as...

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Film Review: Star-studded rumble in jungle packs powerful punch

Wed, 2019-03-27 08:44 CHENNAI: As rumbles in the jungle go, the latest Netflix film “Triple Frontier” packs a powerful punch. A star-studded cast including the likes of Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac and Pedro Pascal add weight to this nail-biting action adventure with an underlying message. Director J. C. Chandor weaves a heist story with a difference, set in an unnamed American jungle. Loyalties are tested when five former special forces operatives...

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Film review: Unlikely romance loses its spark in soulless sojourn

Wed, 2019-03-27 08:40 It is probably fair to say that director Ritesh Batra’s Sundance Film Festival premiere, “Photograph,” is unlikely to become one of his standout movies. Pitted against his masterly 2013 debut work “The Lunchbox,” and his stirring “Our Souls at Night” in 2017, “Photograph” has the feel and texture of an old-world romance. It is leisurely and laid back but lacks the spirit of his earlier films. In a way “Photograph” is...

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Film review: Put-upon mother’s journey of discovery is magical

Wed, 2019-03-27 08:27 DUBAI: Children using emotional blackmail to manipulate their parents is an age-old theme, but for one mother it sparks a voyage of discovery. Latest Netflix original “Juanita” tells the story of a hard-working mother, fed up with her deadbeat grown kids and marginal urban existence, who takes a bus trip to Montana where she reinvents herself. Adapted from Sheila Williams’ novel “Dancing on the Edge of the Roof” and directed...

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What We Are Reading Today: Rights as Weapons by Clifford Bob

Author:  Tue, 2019-03-26 21:59 Rights are usually viewed as defensive concepts representing mankind’s highest aspirations to protect the vulnerable and uplift the downtrodden. But since the Enlightenment, political combatants have also used rights belligerently, to batter despised communities, demolish existing institutions, and smash opposing ideas. Delving into a range of historical and contemporary conflicts from all areas of...

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Stolen Picasso unearthed by ‘Indiana Jones of art’

Author:  AFP ID:  1553585465802929100 Tue, 2019-03-26 06:30 THE HAGUE: A Dutch art detective dubbed the “Indiana Jones of the Art World” has struck again, finding a Picasso painting worth €25 million stolen from a Saudi sheikh’s yacht on the French Riviera in 1999. Arthur Brand said he had handed back the 1938 masterpiece entitled “Portrait of Dora Maar,” also known as “Buste de Femme (Dora Maar)” to an insurance company...

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Art collection of fugitive Indian billionaire to be auctioned

Author:  Reuters ID:  1553577005552771900 Tue, 2019-03-26 04:36 MUMBAI: Indian tax authorities are hoping for a windfall with the auction on Tuesday of rare oil paintings that were once part of fugitive billionaire jeweler Nirav Modi’s collection and have been seized by the government. Auctioneers say the sale is the first of its kind in a country where tax authorities have usually auctioned property, gold and luxury items,...

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What We Are Reading Today: Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers by Yan Xuetong

Author:  Mon, 2019-03-25 23:16 While work in international relations has closely examined the decline of great powers, not much attention has been paid to the question of their rise. The upward trajectory of China is a particularly puzzling case. How has it grown increasingly important in the world arena while lagging behind the US and its allies across certain sectors?  Borrowing ideas of political determinism from ancient...

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Nicole Scherzinger proves she’s just like every other tourist with this iconic Dubai snap

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Saudi Arabia’s East Coast Festival lines up top-class cultural activities

Mon, 2019-03-25 01:01 DAMMAM: People in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province have had no shortage of things to do during the Sharqiah Season. From pop concerts featuring international artists to massive sporting events, there is something for everyone among the 83 different events planned. However, it would be remiss not to celebrate the heritage and culture of the country itself. The Enter East Coast Festival, an open-air marketplace with plenty...

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What We Are Reading Today: Gateway State by Sarah Miller-Davenport

Author:  Sun, 2019-03-24 22:54 Gateway State explores the development of Hawai’i as a model for liberal multiculturalism and a tool of American global power in the era of decolonization. The establishment of Hawaii statehood in 1959 was a watershed moment, not only in the ways Americans defined their nation’s role on the international stage but also in the ways they understood the problems of social difference at home. Hawaii’s remarkable...

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Aladdin’s Naomi Scott walks the (magic) carpet in Los Angeles

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The UAE’s art scene isn’t imported, Emirati curator argues

Sun, 2019-03-24 12:03 ABU DHABI: This year, Art Dubai introduced a new segment into its program — the UAE NOW exhibit that showcased the country’s local independent, artist-run platforms. The region’s largest art fair ran from March 20-23 and Arab News caught up with UAE NOW curator Munira Al-Sayegh to find out more about the push to showcase homegrown creativity. “The UAE NOW section of Art Dubai is extremely important to me. It is a moment...

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Scenic Highlands at eye of Scotland’s Brexit storm

Author:  Reuters ID:  1553415871987628100 Sun, 2019-03-24 08:00 INVERNESS, Scotland: Glen Mhor Hotel, a picturesque base for tourists hunting Scotland’s Loch Ness monster, is struggling to find staff for the summer season as workers from the European Union snub Brexit Britain. While Prime Minister Theresa May battles to win support for her plans to leave the EU, a shortage of migrant workers from the bloc is already threatening...

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