Lady Gaga steps out in Arab style to accept best actress award

DUBAI: US superstar Lady Gaga this week won best actress prize at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards for her role in the biographical crime drama "House of Gucci." To accept her prize,...

Filmmaker Mohamed Diab discusses ‘Moon Knight’ — the first Marvel project to have an Arab director

DUBAI: Representation matters. Not just representation of ethnic background, but of personal experience. As Egyptian director Mohamed Diab becomes the first Arab to direct a Marvel project with the eagerly awaited limited series "Moon...

Recipes for success: Chef Stefano Nava shares advice and a delicious spaghetti recipe

Q: What's your top tip for amateur chefs? A: Always ensure that you're organized. It's a cliche, but it really does make a huge difference -- in the kitchen or any space that you're working...

REVIEW: ‘The Adam Project’ — how much Ryan Reynolds is enough Ryan Reynolds?

LONDON: The latest fruit of Ryan Reynolds' eye-wateringly expensive collaboration deal with Netflix is sci-fi movie "The Adam Project." The Adam of the title is Adam Reed -- a skilled pilot living in a near...

Iranian pop star Googoosh wows Dubai despite Tehran’s outcry

DUBAI: It was music fit for the troubled times.Her voice full of heartache and tender resolve, Iranian pop diva and national icon Googoosh delivered old hits and songs from her new album to a...

What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Science of Meditation’

Authors: Daniel Goleman & Dr. Richard J. Davidson "The Science of Meditation: How to Change Your Brain, Mind and Body" is a self-help book written by psychologist Daniel Goleman, and professor of psychology and psychiatry...

What We Are Reading Today: Pliny’s Roman Economy: Natural History, Innovation, and Growth

Author: Richard Saller The elder Pliny's Natural History (77 CE), an astonishing compilation of 20,000 "things worth knowing," was avowedly intended to be a repository of ancient Mediterranean knowledge for the use of craftsmen and...

See the visual retelling of Scheherazade’s Middle Eastern tales

LOS ANGELES: The Middle Eastern epic "One Thousand and One Nights" has been reinterpreted as hand-drawn works of art in Mobina Nouri's exhibit "A Thousand Tales." Linda Roshi Rahnaama, founder and director of ADVOCARTSY, said...