The House of Bernarda Alba is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. Commentators have often grouped it with Blood Wedding and Yerma as a “rural trilogy”. Lorca did not include it in his plan for a “trilogy of the Spanish land” (which remained unfinished at the time of his murder). Read More »
The Moroccan Wall (or the “Berm”) is a 2,600-kilometer-long (1,600 mi) wall running through Western Sahara. The wall is made of 3-meter-high (10 ft) desert sand and is protected by electric fences, radar, barbed wire, Moroccan soldiers, and about seven million land mines. Read More »
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, is a special administrative region on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in southern China. Read More »
An art exhibition was setup to display art works that were about to be put up in an art auction. Here are some hint in case you are looking to start one. Auctions are the art world’s blood sport, with wealthy collectors and art speculators convening in tony salesrooms to compete with one another for the finest works coming to ... Read More »
Baghdad is the capital of Iraq. The population of Baghdad, as of 2016, is approximately 8,765,000, making it the largest city in Iraq, the second largest city in the Arab world (after Cairo, Egypt), and the second largest city in Western Asia. Read More »
Security is freedom from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercive change) from external forces. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be persons and social groups, objects and institutions, ecosystems, and any other entity or phenomenon vulnerable to unwanted change by its environment. Read More »
After numerous blogs hazarded a guess at the cost of the mother of four’s royal wardrobe, the palace shared the statement on its official Facebook page. Addressing the concerns, the note read: It’s a reality that fashion designers are eager to dress royals and celebrities, and thus they receive many of the pricier pieces they own as a gift from ... Read More »
The lady of emarat is a popular show currently on TV, not only is it know for it’s story but also for the costumes and makeup of the actors and actresses. As long as theater has existed, actors have used stage makeup. From ancient Greece to the theater of the Orient to present-day Broadway, theatrical makeup has been an integral ... Read More »
The 2019 AFC Asian Cup is the 17th edition of the AFC Asian Cup, the quadrennial international men’s football championship of Asia organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). Read More »
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football is understood to refer to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears. Read More »