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The 11th Saudi Film Festival will take place from April 17 to 24 at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, also known as Ithra, in Dhahran. Organized by the Cinema Association, in partnership with Ithra and supported by the Film Commission of the Ministry of Culture, this year’s
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The original watercolor illustration for the first edition of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” -- the book that introduced the world to the young bespectacled wizard -- will go up for auction in New York on Wednesday. The work by Thomas Taylor, who was just 23 years old
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Writing about the Allied invasion of Normandy, Garrett M. Graff is treading onto familiar history with his latest book. From books by historian Stephen Ambrose to films like Steven Spielberg's “Saving Private Ryan," there's ample works chronicling t he June 6, 1944, landing during World
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Over 500 years after Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, an academic believes she has unravelled the mystery about the backdrop to one of the world's most famous works of art. Art historians have long debated its landscape, speculating on the locations that could have inspired Leonardo
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American author Paul Auster who made his name with noirish, existentialist novels about lonely writers, outsiders and down-and-outers that were a huge hit in Europe particularly, has died aged 77. He died on Tuesday evening at his home in Brooklyn surrounded by family, including his wife Siri Hustvedt and daughter
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Prestigious Harvard University said Wednesday it had removed human skin from the binding of a book held for over 90 years at one of its libraries. A copy of the 19th-century book “Des Destinées de l’Ame” -- or Destinies of the Soul, a meditation on life after death --
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Huddled in the back of a van, Rebin Pishtiwan carefully scans one yellowed page after another, as part of his mission to digitize historic Kurdish books at risk of disappearing. Seen as the world’s largest stateless people, the Kurds are an ethnic group of between 25 and 35 million
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The doors close Wednesday on nominations for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, with peace activists connected to the wars in Gaza and Ukraine among the known entries. The Norwegian Nobel Committee keeps the nominations secret, but those with nomination rights sometimes make their picks public. Attempts to find an end
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A wealth of tributes have been paid to former NFL player turned Hollywood actor Carl Weathers who starred in 'Rocky', 'Predator' and 'The Mandalorian'. Carl Weathers, linebacker-turned-actor who starred in 'Rocky' movies and 'The Mandalorian,' dies Carl Weathers, a former
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JEDDAH: Ludovic Pouille, the French ambassador to the Kingdom, and Mohammed Nehad, the French consul general in Jeddah, and their delegation, visited the Balad Al-Fann event in Jeddah to help foster cultural ties between France and Saudi Arabia. The Jeddah Historic District festival aims to enhance cultural interaction in Al-Balad.
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It’s hard to know exactly how many books have been published since printing was first used commercially in 1454.
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Bourges designated European Capital of Culture 2028.
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FRESNO, CALIF. — David Rasavong's cultural pride is evident all throughout his restaurant. It's on the wall of family portraits and where a stunning mural depicts his family's journey from Laos to California. It's on the menu filled with Lao and Thai dishes