Wed, 2020-04-01 11:25 DUBAI: Celebrities in the Arab world are taking part in a social media campaign to raise awareness about pets not passing on coronavirus to their owners.  Lebanese stars Elissa, Nawal El-Zoghbi, and Wael Kfoury took to Instagra [Read story...]

Wed, 2020-04-01 08:51 LOS ANGELES: Actress Lindsay Lohan, whose promising movie career crashed a decade ago in a string of legal woes and substance abuse, on Tuesday announced she was making a comeback with a new music single. “I’m back!,” the [Read story...]

Author: Wed, 2020-04-01 12:58 DUBAI: For the first time since Rihanna’s rumored split from Saudi businessman Hassan Jameel, the multi-hyphenate has spoken out on her life post-breakup. In a recent interview with British Vogue, the singer and beauty [Read story...]

Author: Wed, 2020-04-01 12:44 DUBAI: US-Iraqi beauty moguls Huda and Mona Kattan’s birthday message to YouTube star Liza Koshy is in fact the kind of “positivity we need right now.”  “Happiest Bday @lizakoshy. Thanks for always spreading l [Read story...]

Author: Wed, 2020-04-01 15:09 DUBAI: If you’ve been self-isolating for the past few weeks, chances are that you have probably already sifted through your favorite streaming platform’s entire catalogue. The good news is there’s a new form of ent [Read story...]

Dozens took to social media platforms on Wednesday to criticize Kuwaiti actress Hayat al-Fahad after she called for the expulsion of all expatriates to make room for citizens who might get infected with coronavirus on national television.For more cor [Read story...]

The city of Jena in eastern Germany has decided to make people wear face masks when shopping or travelling on public transport, stepping up efforts to curb coronavirus contagion and becoming the first city in the country to introduce the measure.For [Read story...]

“This is my opinion and I did not say anything wrong,” Kuwaiti actress Hayat al-Fahad said in response to uproar on social media after she called for a ban on expatriates amid the coronavirus outbreak in Kuwait.For more coronavirus news, visit ou [Read story...]

Author: ReutersID: 1585747265816491400Wed, 2020-04-01 13:00 LONDON: British author J. K. Rowling is hoping her much-loved Harry Potter series will work its magic on bored children stuck at home during the coronavirus lockdown. Harry Potter and the Ph [Read story...]

Thu, 2020-04-02 05:23 RIYADH: The Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) has announced the creation of three awards for students in three cultural areas as part of its Remote Culture initiative. The first prize is [Read story...]

Author: Thu, 2020-04-02 08:24 DUBAI: Kylie Jenner and her mom Kris Jenner announced on Tuesday that they will be teaming up with Coty Inc. to manufacture and distribute hand sanitizers to hospitals in southern California that are facing a shortage of [Read story...]

Thu, 2020-04-02 11:01 DUBAI: People often say I’m doing too many things at the same time. But I have a passion for everything I do. I’m an artist and creative and I feed on passion. I was told to stop my singing career because it would take me aw [Read story...]

Author: Thu, 2020-04-02 11:43 Mahmoud Kaabour ‘Champ Of The Camp’ and ‘Grandma, A Thousand Times’ The Lebanese filmmaker has made two of his documentaries available to watch online (for free). “Wonderful how my fellow filmmakers and produce [Read story...]

Fri, 2020-04-03 01:04 Egypt’s entertainment industry has been hit hard by precautionary measures taken by the government to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The makers of popular Ramadan programs have suffered the most from the production shutdo [Read story...]

Thu, 2020-04-02 13:50 DUBAI: A month ago, no one would have imagined that their existence would soon be relegated to the place that they call home. The world has had to learn a lot, and fast. When it comes to the art market, auction houses such as So [Read story...]

Fri, 2020-04-03 03:32 The Saudi Health Ministry has introduced a self-assessment feature on its Mawid smartphone app amid the global outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), offering a consultation window for the public. The feature includes a lis [Read story...]

Author: Fri, 2020-04-03 02:21 Kyes is a Saudi concept brand that offers reusable bags, an eco-friendly alternative to disposable plastic versions that harm the environment. The brand was established in February 2019 by students from King Abdul Aziz U [Read story...]

Author: Fri, 2020-04-03 04:16 The term “biography” seems insufficiently capacious to describe the singular achievement of Joseph Frank’s five-volume study of the life of the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. One critic, writing upon the [Read story...]

Wed, 2020-04-01 11:16 DUBAI: US-Palestinian twins Simi and Haze Khadra turned 27 on Tuesday and, naturally, social media feeds were flooded with birthday tributes for the DJ duo. Though the twins, who share a joint Instagram account, couldn’t exact [Read story...]

Author: Tue, 2020-03-31 11:28 DUBAI: It’s no secret that US-Palestinian-Dutch model Gigi Hadid loves to cook. She routinely takes to her social media to share videos and photographs of the mouth-watering dishes she’s cooked up — she even has a [Read story...]

Fri, 2020-03-27 12:05 DUBAI: American pop icon Britney Spears took to Instagram to claim she had beaten the former Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt’s 100-meter world record on Thursday.  The “Toxic” singer shared a screenshot of a timer that recor [Read story...]

Author: Fri, 2020-03-27 12:49 ‘Arnaut of Cairo’ Jean-Léon Gérôme The French artist often painted Arnauts (irregulars in the Ottoman army from Albania and the Balkans). This painting from the late 1850s shows one of these mercenaries with two w [Read story...]

Fri, 2020-03-27 13:33 LONDON: It’s not easy to hold a crowd spellbound with spoken-word poetry, but when 24-year-old British-Yemeni poet Amina Atiq performed at the Arab Women Artists Now (AWAN) festival in London recently, it’s fair to say she h [Read story...]

Author: AFPID: 1585317881123272300Fri, 2020-03-27 14:01 NEW YORK: Bob Dylan surprised fans overnight into Friday by releasing his first original music in eight years, a 17-minute ballad about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Backed by delicate p [Read story...]