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...Alongside historic pieces are artworks by contemporary artists such as Mona Hatoum, Khalil Rabah, Mounira Al Solh, Aya Haidar, Majd Abdel-Hamid and Maeve Brennan which honour the craft’s potent legacy....
...She is an enigma not quite rivalling the Mona Lisa, but nonetheless one of the strangest portraits in all the Renaissance....
...El Catrin is the resident Mexican restaurant, boasting fire pits in the winter and Day of the Dead decor year-round. Oysters can be gulped down at Pure Spirits....
...Egyptian women of Nawal El Saadawi’s generation were expected to be docile, and never utter a word about sex....
...The day after they were attacked, Sanaa, Mona and their mother went to the state prosecutor’s office to lodge a complaint....
...food Bank. beirutrestore.com @beirutrestore Art Relief For Beirut is an Instagram sale of contemporary artworks donated by a host of international artists, including the joint 2019 Turner prize winners; Mona...
...A friend from Beirut’s Tarik el-Jedideh, a working-class neighbourhood, told me he wasn’t sleeping. “It’s too hot,” he said....
...In Cairo, Mona Seif planned to begin a PhD, but has put her studies on hold to focus on the plight of her brother and sister....
...extraordinary life from first to last: from Freud as an eight-year-old in 1930, a snapshot from Weimar-era Berlin, to the 88-year-old in London in 2011, the year of his death, laid out on his sofa like an El...
...Beirut’s municipality shows little interest in preserving old buildings, and it took heritage activists, in particular architect Mona El Hallak, to rescue it....
...More ambitious installations are being commissioned too: at Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau, artist Mona El Gammal is showing Rhizomat, a 12-minute movie depicting an underground movement which rebels against...
...No other museum comes close to the Prado’s collection of works by Velázquez, El Greco and Goya....
...Mona Atef, a young mother carrying her baby, said: “I will say yes, 100 per cent, because there is hope this country will improve when Sisi is in charge....
...Sen perceives that work by westerners is “supposed to be universal …We respond to the Venus de Milo or Mona Lisa without having to know about classical Greece or Renaissance Italy” whereas Asian art is “...
...Mona Zulficar, chairwoman of EFG-Hermes Holding, told the Financial Times that Mr Sawiris had authorised her to tell the press that he would have been part of the Planet IB consortium only if EFG-Hermes...
...“It’s difficult to end, because it’s rooted in a toxic mix of culture and religion,” says Mona Eltahawy, a feminist writer....
...EFG chair Mona Zulficar said that the purchase will “transform EFG Hermes and facilitate the expedient roll-out of our regional commercial banking strategy”....
...The aim is to create a resort to outshine its Red Sea neighbour Eilat, just across the border to the west in Israel, or Sharm el-Sheikh, to the south in Egypt....
...This year sees the strongest ever presence of Middle Eastern and south-west Asian states, including offerings by Palestine and the United Arab Emirates, Mona Hatoum’s solo exhibition and noteworthy national...
...Like the Mona Lisa at the Louvre, Tutankhamun is unrivalled as the main attraction of the Egyptian Museum, an imposing neoclassical building in central Cairo....
...“The very fast growth of high-skilled expatriates in the region is outpacing the supply of schools that they would want to send their children to,” says Mona Mourshed, a partner at the McKinsey Middle East...
...He told Al Masry El Youm newspaper that the legislation reflected the will of parliament and suggested there was a need to guard against “malicious” complaints....
...By 2004-05, it had become 20 per cent,” says Mona Mourshed, a partner with the McKinsey Dubai office who specialises in education. “It’s dissatisfaction with the public school system.”...
...Mona El Shazli, the host of 10 PM, the highly respected current affairs programme on Egypt’s Dream TV, described the development on her show as “worrying” and said the offences listed in the charter were...
...Mona al-Shinnawy UAE Egyptian-born Mona el Shinnawy began her commerce degree in Sudan when she was 15 years old. “Everyone was a lot older than me but I actually enjoyed the attention,” she says....
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