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...Nadal has promised to “spend dedicated time” in the Gulf kingdom to help develop young talent, and will set up a Rafael Nadal Academy to that end....
...“We were very young [in 2008] — the teams were a bit smaller and we were building the portfolio from scratch, so we were more opportunistic,” says Mansoor bin Ebrahim al-Mahmoud, QIA chief executive....
...Every evening in Hail, a Saudi city at the foot of a jagged mountain range, Mona heads out to her roadside tea stall, switches on the lights, and waits for customers to show up....
...But critics and opponents see him as harbinger of a new Saudi nationalism, an accessory to murder and a ruthless dictator in the making whose fanatical hatred of Iran has split the consensus of Gulf states...
...Whether he succeeds is deemed critical to his ability to shore up support for his vision among young Saudis who make up the majority of the population, and lure foreign investment to the country....
...In his studio on the outskirts of Beirut, Al Kadiri says he chanced upon a rare edition of Al-Wasiti’s illustrations for the 12th-century Iraqi stories Maqamat al-Hariri, and was dazzled....
...These days, a section called Poet’s Corner — a cluster of Victorian streets named after Milton, Chaucer, Spenser et al — is a property hotspot....
...(Al Jazeera) MAGA v MOPGA French president Emmanuel Macron appears to be goading US leader Donald Trump....
...And the Iraqi artist Halim Al-Karim “recounts his exile in the desert during the first Gulf war with a triptych in engraved Murano glass, combining his poetry with traditional Venetian art”, according to...
...European and Gulf states, who were opposed to Russia’s intervention on behalf of Bashar al-Assad, have said they will only contribute if Russia secures a peace settlement with terms for an eventual political...
...American universities fill the Education City site....
...Arab rising from the shore....
...Hugging the coast of the Arabian Sea, the city of Dubai sits perched on the edge of a vast sandy desert, its climate hot, dry and inhospitable....
...less-celebrated shores....
...My ideal summer day would be spent on the shores of one of Berlin’s lakes....
...However, some voiced concern about the risk of radicalisation of young Jordanians, including those who travel abroad to fight in Iraq or Syria....
...side of the city....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...on the shores of Lake Baikal....
...port, to the centre of the island, where the capital city is located....
...spent six months living alone in a cabin on the shores of Lake Baikal – reading, drinking vodka and writing about his experience of self-imposed exile, isolation and silence....
...But I will not back down from making sure an oil company can contain the kind of oil spill we saw in the Gulf two years ago....
...Najla al-Faraj, a young woman training as a lawyer, says her parents refuse point-blank to spend their vacations in Saudi Arabia or any other Arab country....
...And after years of war against al Qaeda and its affiliates, we have dealt al Qaeda a huge blow by killing its leader – Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden was no martyr....
...In spite of its tiny size and debilitating summer climate, Qatar has launched an audacious attempt to bring the festival of football to the shores of the Gulf, reflecting the gas-rich state’s grand ambitions...
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