Topic: Middle East
The oil-rich emirate of Abu Dhabi announced on Saturday a delay in completing a museums complex, including satellites of the Louvre and Guggenheim, amid a reported scale-down in state projects.The Tourism Development and Investment Company, the government agency in charge of developing ...
DUBAI (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi government-owned Tourism Development and Investment Co (TDIC) said on Saturday it was postponing the opening of three museums, in a fresh delay for one of the largest cultural projects in the Middle East.The company gave no new ...
KABUL (Reuters) - While everyone else is worrying about Afghanistan's future, a dedicated band of men and women is gathering up its past, hoping that a growing museum collection will show the world Afghan culture is more sophisticated than the tide of ...
The tiger whose death after the US invasion of Iraq inspired a play that is garnering roaring reviews on Broadway is still remembered at the Baghdad zoo, where he was born and raised.Six months after the March 2003 invasion, when the big ...
Iran has cut ties with The Louvre, a top official said on Monday, accusing the renowned Paris museum of violating a commitment made to a Tehran heritage body."This organisation as of today will cease its cooperation with The Louvre for violating its ...
Precious ivory artefacts which crime author Agatha Christie cleaned using her face cream after her husband had excavated them have been bought by the British Museum, it was reported Tuesday.The prolific author was present at excavations directed by her second husband, Max ...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Even in the chaos and violence of war there is hope. That is the message running through a new British Museum exhibition of Afghanistan's ancient treasures thought lost, destroyed, or looted over the past 30 years.The collection of ...
Paintings acquired by shadowy anonymous buyers paying record prices now hang in the light of day in Qatar in the world's first museum devoted to modern Arab art.The masterpieces are displayed among other treasures making a collection of almost 6,500 pieces in ...
Tehran has warned it will cut cultural ties with France if renowned Paris museum The Louvre fails to set up an exhibition of Persian artefacts in Iran as agreed, an official was Monday cited as saying."If this museum (The Louvre) fails to ...
RIYADH (Reuters Life!) - Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh is a growing city of over four million, combining the flair of a financial center with a traditional desert lifestyle as it is home to one of the biggest Arab camel markets.The desert city ...
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