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Athel
Emirati short film 'Athel' gets outstanding achievement certificate at Berlin film fest
ABU DHABI — The Emirati short film "Athel" received the Outstanding Achievement Certificate at the Berlin Flash Film Festival in Germany, a festival that celebrates short films and scripts, giving the filmmakers a creative platform to voice their art. "Athel" also won the Gold Remy Award at the WorldFest — Houston International Film Festival in the United States. The festival aims to recognize and honor outstanding creative excellence in film and video, to validate brilliant abilities and to promote cultural tourism for Houston, to develop film production in the region and to add to the rich cultural fabric of the city of Houston. The world's film industry giants have won festival awards, and the films of the Remy Prize winners are shown on large screens to the...
September 01, 2020

Emirati short film 'Athel' gets outstanding achievement certificate at Berlin film fest

Actor Chadwick Boseman, who brought the movie
'Black Panther' star Boseman dies of cancer at 43
LOS ANGELES — Actor Chadwick Boseman, who brought the movie "Black Panther" to life with his charismatic intensity and regal performance, has died. Boseman has battled colon cancer since 2016 and died at home with his family and wife by his side, according to a statement posted on his Twitter account. He was 43."A true fighter, Chadwick persevered through it all, and brought you so many of the films you have come to love so much," the statement said, according to CNN."From Marshall to Da 5 Bloods, August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and several more, all were filmed during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy."A statement posted on Boseman’s Twitter account, read: “It is with immeasurable grief that we confirm the passing of...
August 29, 2020

'Black Panther' star Boseman dies of cancer at 43

Friend of the Sea announces standard for sustainable sea turtle watching.
Friend of the Sea announces standard for sustainable sea turtle watching
MILAN — Friend of the Sea, the preeminent global certification standard for products and services that respect and protect the marine environment, recently announced the debut of the standard for sustainable sea turtle watching.The standard makes it possible for people to experience sea turtles up close without harming them or their habitats. The sea turtle watching standard is the latest in a series of such standards from Friend of the Sea’s, including certifications for watching dolphins, whales, whale sharks and manta rays.“Sea turtles are adorable, and indeed we’ve seen them turned into lovable movie characters and the like, so people feel as if they can have a personal relationship with these creatures,” said Paolo Bray, Director of Friend of the Sea.“This is great, up to...
August 08, 2020

Friend of the Sea announces standard for sustainable sea turtle watching

Al Atlal
Umm Kulthum hologram to perform at Dubai Opera
DUBAI — As part of Eid in Dubai Celebration, Dubai Festivals and Retail Establishment (DFRE), MBC Group, and New Dimension Productions (NDP) invite Umm Kulthum fans to attend a nostalgic exceptional concert hosted by Dubai Summer Surprises (DSS) at the Dubai Opera House. The event will see a digitized version of the late diva singing in front of her audience. NDP is set to offer some of the iconic singer's unforgettable hits, which shaped the history of classical Arabic music.This year's cooperation between DFRE, MBC Group, and NDP comes after a hugely successful and largely celebrated debut in 2019. One of the leading providers of state-of-the-art entertainment technology, NDP enjoys an extensive experience in the 3D and hologram content production, as the regional audience...
August 03, 2020

Umm Kulthum hologram to perform at Dubai Opera

Art by Monika Radziunaite on an outdoor advertising stand in Vilnius. — courtesy photo Go-Vilnius
Vilnius Center: 100 art objects displayed in open-air exhibition
VILNIUS — Lithuanian capital Vilnius has come up with yet another solution for the post-pandemic social and cultural life. The city has turned its center into a huge “Art Needs No Roof” exhibition using outdoor advertising stands to show 100 works of Lithuanian artists."Although art galleries are already open, the restrictions for social gatherings remain in place," said Remigijus Šimašius, the mayor of Vilnius. "Therefore, Vilnius "takes its roof off."We have turned the city center into a huge open-air gallery. It is one of the largest art exhibitions in Vilnius containing the works of 100 artists. We hope that the project will stimulate creativity and some works will find their way into people's homes."Quarantine, which lasted three...
July 24, 2020

Vilnius Center: 100 art objects displayed in open-air exhibition

Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere watched a black hole’s corona disappear, then reappear, for first time. A colliding star may have triggered the drastic transformation. — courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
Astronomers watch a black hole’s corona disappear, then reappear
By Jennifer ChuIt seems the universe has an odd sense of humor. While a crown-encrusted virus has run roughshod over the world, another entirely different corona about 100 million light years from Earth has mysteriously disappeared.For the first time, astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have watched as a supermassive black hole’s own corona, the ultrabright, billion-degree ring of high-energy particles that encircles a black hole’s event horizon, was abruptly destroyed.The cause of this dramatic transformation is unclear, though the researchers guess that the source of the calamity may have been a star caught in the black hole’s gravitational pull.Like a pebble tossed into a gearbox, the star may have ricocheted through the black hole’s disk of swirling material, causing everything in...
July 18, 2020

Astronomers watch a black hole’s corona disappear, then reappear

The Calligraphers Tree
Certified Calligraphers Pedigree: New initiative for a comprehensive database
ABU DHABI — Under the sponsorship of Sheikha Khawla Bint Ahmed Bin Khalifa Al-Suwaidi, wife of Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE national security advisor, Khawla Art & Cultural Foundation has recently launched an initiative that aims to build a reference database of all distinguished, licensed calligraphers worldwide. The initiative was named “The Certified Calligraphers Pedigree”.Highlighting the elite calligraphers on the global arena, the Calligraphers Tree will branch out into various calligraphy arts, enlisting profiles of prominent calligraphers with their major works and who were the masters and students of each of them, resulting in an elaborate tree of references and lineages.The first of its kind, this initiative came to use Khawla’s foundation website as a...
July 01, 2020

Certified Calligraphers Pedigree: New initiative for a comprehensive database

A photo of Olive Ridley Sea Turtle shown nesting in Sharjah.
Olive Ridley Sea Turtle nests discovered in the UAE
SHARJAH — On the occasion of the World Sea Turtle Day, which falls on June 16 of each year, the Environment and Protected Areas Authority in Sharjah announced the first nesting of Olive Ridley Sea Turtle in the country and it is considered the first of its kind locally.A sea turtle hatchling was recently observed crawling towards the sea from the beach of Kalba Kingfisher Lodge in Khor Kalba in the emirate of Sharjah. This is of great interest as sea turtle nesting is very rare on the eastern coast of the United Arab Emirates.The result of the survey confirmed that the young turtles have successfully exited from the nest.The morphological examination of the photos confirmed them to be the Olive Ridley Sea Turtle, the first record of their nesting recorded at the Alqurm Protected Area, in...
June 17, 2020

Olive Ridley Sea Turtle nests discovered in the UAE

The Cultural Foundation has announced that its upcoming season of performances will take place online, live streamed on its YouTube channel, with the line-up over the summer including an eclectic mix of musical performances as well as stand-up comedy.
Cultural Foundation to live stream free performances on YouTube
ABU DHABI — The Cultural Foundation has announced that its upcoming season of performances will take place online, live streamed on its YouTube channel, with the line-up over the summer including an eclectic mix of musical performances as well as stand-up comedy."This move follows the success of several recent virtual offerings, including two exclusive Eid Al Fitr performances by Arab superstar Kadim Al Sahir on May 24 and Emirati popstar Hussain Al Jassmi on May 25, as part of the Department of Culture and Tourism — Abu Dhabi's online initiative CulturAll," DCT Abu Dhabi said in a statement."Despite the fact that we are currently unable to open our doors to the public, the Cultural Foundation continues to bring fresh and innovative programming to our audiences...
June 11, 2020

Cultural Foundation to live stream free performances on YouTube

New Caledonia’s coral reefs report offers a glimmer of hope for the future
ANNAPOLIS — A new report from the Khaled Bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation (KSLOF) provides a promising assessment of the status of coral reefs in New Caledonia. Released recently, the Global Reef Expedition: New Caledonia Final Report summarizes the Foundation’s findings from a research mission to study the health and resiliency of the coral reefs of New Caledonia, part of KSLOF’s larger efforts to study the reef crisis unfolding around the world.They found many of the coral reefs to be in surprisingly good health, even in unexpected places. This research initiative was conducted as part of the Global Reef Expedition, a 5-year scientific mission that circumnavigated the globe to collect valuable baseline data on the state of the reefs and the threats they face.Of the 22 research...
June 04, 2020

New Caledonia’s coral reefs report offers a glimmer of hope for the future

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