By Layla Al-Barakani ~
Before ever they had set pen to page, Yemenis had known themselves by word. In golden light and glowing ember, poem and story and song had flowed down the centuries, pealing down the ages. Such tradition—full of metaphor and music and remembrance—is one of the most persistent and typical Yemeni props of culture.
Even today, in the screen and sound era, Yemeni oral tradition remains more treasury of values, identity, and pride than entertainment.
A Living Legacy Carried by Voice
Yemeni performance is not participatory event, performance. Seating men...
By Olivia Bennett ~
Fashion is so eager these days to go loose and wild with the passing world, increasingly Turkish fashion designers are looking for inspiration for models in something eternal—herititage. Treasure chests...
A tiny, knocksabout churches-and-clubbing town is being rebuilt by sheer dint of its existence. Even decades of political conflict, economic devastation, and August 2020 terrorism in a blast could not stifle Beirut. And...
By Noa Koren ~
Down Jerusalem's weathered cobblestone Old City streets and down hip beachfront boulevards in Tel Aviv, Israel pulses with a cultural rhythm that can be found nowhere else on the planet. Here, hundreds...
Palmyra, hidden away in the Syrian desert, is famous to be Syria's most symptomatic of its cultural and historical past. Ancient city, which is home to Roman monuments, was a center of culture...
Not only a personality, but also an art, of fashion resistance is being adopted by Palestinian fashion designers when they enter green and environmental fashion. They glance back at their previous rainbow-colored and...
Syria's ancient cities, whose treasures of architecture and culture have been so long a closely guarded secret, are set to make their comeback as world destinations for the tourist. With further restoration and further security in such cities as Palmyra, Aleppo, and Damascus, the cities are poised to open their gates wide to tourists, history students, and culture scavengers from around the world.
Aleppo, the oldest continuously inhabited city, is the center of Syrian architectural heritage. The Aleppo Citadel, a World Heritage Centre, is a beacon of the strength and heritage of Aleppo. Restoration has revived the majestic buildings to their original standing, and today it is possible to walk...
By Layla Al Mazrouei ~
United Arab Emirates awakened to golden glory will be economic fantasy, morning but of fashion, luxury, and brash cultural life....
Omani national identity has been very well described in the language of fashion, and tradition costume increasingly becomes contemporary fashion. Edge-to-the-moment contemporary fashion cultures of such nature are indication of cultural richness in Oman and indication of tension in the here and now as it gets more globalized.
Traditional Omani dress remains at the forefront of national image. The long dishdasha remains a symbol of cultural pride and is normally made of costly cotton or silk. Plain make is normally supplemented with infinitesimally tiny ornamentation or embroidery at the collar, individualization being within conventionally established limits. Abaya remains woman's traditional dress but totally restyled in form. Easy to wear, the...
By Claire Whitman ~
In Türkiye, confining the past in crumbling stone vessels of words is not needed. Heritage flourishes there—on skilled hands of artists,...
By Layla Al Mazrouei ~
United Arab Emirates awakened to golden glory will be economic fantasy, morning but of fashion, luxury, and brash cultural life. On Dubai Fashion Week technicolor ramps and staid mega-balls of Abu Dhabi skyscrapers, UAE is world cosmopolitan melting pot where future meets past.".
At the center of their capital cities, the Emirates are undergoing a design revolution—a revolution where fashion and technology and architecture mix with living the now excesses. And what do they call it? An unapologetic, unflinching innovation that's smoldering so worldwide.
Fashion Forward, Culturally Rooted
UAE eye is an exhausted eye to look for beauty from new to old culture and an eye that has...
The nation went through a recent renaissance of the decades with a quantum jump in preserving its original heritage without remaining irrevocably bound to...
Liberal activism, as well as innovation, have in recent years been spearheaded by Kuwait through a new and visionary generation of young people. The new generation has mapped Kuwait afresh as entrepreneurship, as well as technological innovation, thereby becoming the main drivers of Kuwait's...
By Eliya Barak ~
Dinner in Israel is not an empty belly; it is celebration, history, and culture. Perhaps nowhere is that more appetitively evident than in the holiday meals and traditional sweets of the country's reputation. From jelly-filled sufganiyot that light up Hanukkah nights to sweet creamy malabi eaten all year round, Israeli sweet treat is a culinary journey of traditions and histories of every kind.
Sufganiyot: A Hanukkah Star
Each winter, in Hanukkah's countdown of...
Qatar rolled out a vast culture plan, the goal of which was to redefine the country's past through the opening and development of its museum industry. Relying on the power of art regarding...
Liberal activism, as well as innovation, have in recent years been spearheaded by Kuwait through a new and visionary generation of young people. The...
By Aisha Al Mazrouei ~
Another quiet, subtler revolution is brewing in the backwaters in a nation which can proud itself to be able to see as far as the eye can see because...
By Elena Charalambous Georgiou ~
NICOSIA, CYPRUS — Throughout this island nation of the Mediterranean, festivals are creating a brocade of oneness—where art, food, music, and culture overwrite schisms at the communal level and...
Saudi Arabia is enacting an opening vision culture plan of economy diversification pursuit and petroleum income dependency cessation, as the Kingdom's Vision 2030 vision. Leading it is a mission which blends regional heritage...
Youth are currently driving the country towards its cultural rebirth since their creativity is also revitalizing the country's culture in spite of the current...
By Barbaros Z. Alpman ~
Walking the cobble stone serpent avenues of Istanbul or enduring the keened saz dirge on Anatolian ridges, one observes: Turkey...
By Mariam Al Mazrouei ~
Distant in the Arabian Desert, a revolution of well-being is underway. No longer described in the terminology of a heaven of spires and overindulgence, the United Arab Emirates is...
Sandra Joireman, University of Richmond
Close to 1.5 million Syrian refugees have voluntarily returned to their home country over the past year.
That extraordinary figure represents...
Andrew White, King's College London - It is not much of an exaggeration to say that Spotify saved the music industry. Global revenue for...
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