Culture
2nd PANAF of Algiers to give positive image of Africa
The second Pan-African Cultural Festival, to be held next summer in Algiers, will give a positive image of Africa, said on Monday Zouaoui Benhamadi, the director general of the national agency for the management of major cultural projects (ARPC).
Oran: Yasmina Khadra...s ...l'Attentat... on stage
...The Attack..., a work of Algerian novelist Yasmina Khadra, will be presented from April 23 on the stages of ...Abdelkader-Alloula... Regional Theatre of Oran, the theatre...s direction indicated Saturday. ...
Israel: destroyed and buried Arab villages
Zochrot is a unique Israeli organization: it attempts to trace the footsteps of Arab villages destroyed during the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, to ensure that their memory would disappear entirely from the collective memory. ...
Spain: The 10,000 Arabic inscriptions of the Alhambra
The 10,000 inscriptions in Arabic that adorn the walls, ceilings and arches of the famous palace of the Alhambra in Granada (southern Spain) were first subjected to a decoding, surveying and cataloguing systematically. ...
Movies: Doc in Tunis
Images of a world of wars, migration and oppression, and others on women facing the rise of Islamism marked the International Documentary Film closed Sunday in Tunisia. ...
Veiled Love: the film that...s causing a scandal in Morocco
"Veiled Love", or "Hijab el Hob", tells the story of a young Moroccan woman who chooses to have sex before marriage. Film maker Aziz Salamy introduces us to Batoul, a young, well brought-up woman, who with her boyfriend, decides to embark on a sexual relationship which is both enflamed and marred by their not being married. A relatively harmless story, even in Morocco, but made shocking by the fact that the young woman wears a hijab... Especially as the director chooses to show the couple kissing and taking a bath together. Our Observer explains why some Moroccans consider the film an attack on Islam. ...
Morocco: Warda at the 'Mawazine' music festival
The Algerian singer Warda, Stevie Wonder and Kylie Minogue are among the artists who will perform at the festival ...Mawazine... (rhythm) in Rabat from 15 to 23 May, organizers said Tuesday. ...
...Damascus... A British Play
The British Council is organizing a regional tour of the British play (Damascus), written by David Greig, during March and April of this year in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, and the Palestinian territories. The tour is also produced by the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, and Michael Edwards and Carole Winter....
Higher IQ for adolescents who eat fish
Eating fish makes more intelligent, according to a Swedish study published Monday, linking the consumption of fish in sufficient quantities by adolescents with higher intelligence quotient (IQ). ...
...Algiers or the impossible portrait... By Catherine Rossi
In this book Catherine Rossi, watercolorist and writer tries to make the portrait of Algiers, a portrait that she says impossible ... In love with the city of Algiers, she look at it on all sides, she travels far and wide, from bottom to top, revisits its past and its future plans. She tells us both the vision of painters, writers, singers, poets and mystics and that of the architects and politicians. ...
Fespaco: ...Signis... prize for the Algerian film "The Yellow House"
On the eve of the official proclamation of the winners of the Pan-African Festival of Cinema and Television of Ouagadougou (Fespaco), 20 special prizes worth a minimum of 2 million CFA francs (3,000 euros) have been awarded and four scholarships for to ...development... scenarios. ...
Hollywood / Oscars 81st, "Slumdog Millionaire"
Hollywood was in turmoil Sunday morning a few hours of the 81st Oscars, which should see the triumph of "Slumdog Millionaire" in the queen category for best film, but the suspense remains for a number of highly coveted statuettes. ...
Algeria: "renaissance" at the 2nd Pan-African cultural festival
the 40th anniversary of the second Pan-African cultural festival will be held in Algeria from 5 to 20 July with the participation of nearly 8000 representatives of the continent and the African Diaspora. ...
In Fespaco, 19 African films competing for the ...Golden Stallion...
Nineteen films from the African continent are in competition for the grand prize (the Golden Stallion of Yennenga) the Panafrican Festival of Cinema and Television of Ouagadougou (Fespaco), which began Saturday in the capital of Burkina Faso and ends on March 7. ...
Brazil: Carnival to forget the crisis
Millions of Brazilians, defying the global crisis began Friday in the excitement of the carnival which will be the summit of sumptuous parades of samba schools Sunday and Monday on the Sambodrome Rio de Janeiro. ...
