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The festival will run from December 20 to January 9
World's largest culture and heritage festival to be held in Riyadh
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Ahead of the game.
UAE sees future in artificial intelligence
Caline Malek
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A large sculpture takes visitors into the midst of the battle enlivened by dramatic music.
British Museum brings ancient Assyrian Empire to life
Karen Dabrowska
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A woman migrant and her child sit at the Tunisian port of Ben Guerdane, some 40km west of the Libyan border
Arab women take to the ‘death boats’ of illegal migration
Shirine al-Daydamouni
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Robert De Niro (R) receiving a tribute award from US director Martin Scorsese to his contribution to acting
De Niro, Scorsese debate future of film in Marrakech
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Wine production started in the Nabatean kingdom "in the middle of the first century BC"
Jordan’s desert winemakers
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A Syrian refugee prepares coffee at the back of an improvised food truck in the Egyptian capital Cairo
Syrians roam Cairo streets to sell drinks illegally
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A waterfall in Tamsoult
Hiking in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains offers dazzling experience
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RANIYE - After rolling pyramid-shaped dice, Iraqi Kurdish artisan Hoshmand Muwafaq shifted his pebble around an ornate board, his handmade recreation of one of the Middle East's oldest and most popular games. Originating nearly 5,000 years ago in what would become Iraq, the Royal Game of Ur mysteriously died out -- until Muwafaq resurrected it by making his own decorated wooden board. "It is a nice feeling when you rebuild and recreate a game which is not played by people anymore, and you try to show your g
Ancient board game making comeback in Iraq
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Book Review: Twilight of the American Century
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Risky business. Nisr al-Sahara gun shop in Baghdad
Gun shops thrive in Baghdad further aggravating insecurity
Oumayma Omar
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Druze children run at the village of Shreihi in the southern province of Sweida, Syria
Syria’s Druze struggle to avoid war
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Open to debate. Smoke rises from the cooling towers of the Matla Power Station, a coal-fired power plant in South Africa.
Africa and the Arab world are key to a clean-coal alliance
Geoff Hill
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Several NGOs took the opportunity of the huge crowd to raise public awareness about their causes.
Marathon ‘fills the heart of Beirut’ with joy — once a year
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Members of the self-declared Egyptian Wrestling Federation (EWR) train in a ring during a session in the village of Serapeum
American wrestling draws Egyptian crowd
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In its first year, Louvre Abu Dhabi welcomed more than 1 million visitors
Louvre Abu Dhabi fulfils its promise in first year
N.P. Krishna Kumar
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