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Emmylou Harris, Evelyn Glennie win 2015 Polar Music Prize
March 10, 2015
Emmylou Harris, Evelyn Glennie win 2015 Polar Music Prize
US country legend Emmylou Harris and Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie have won Sweden's Polar Music Prize, organizers said Wednesday. The musicians…
Mohamed Mounir gives concert end of economic conference
March 9, 2015
Mohamed Mounir gives concert end of economic conference
Ilham Abul Fath of Sada Masr said Mohamed Mounir will give a concert at the end of the Sharm al-Sheikh…
Iraq calls for air power to protect antiquities
March 9, 2015
Iraq calls for air power to protect antiquities
Iraq urged a US-led military coalition on Sunday to use air power to protect the country's antiquities from Islamic State fighters…
Top 10 art museums in the world
March 7, 2015
Top 10 art museums in the world
Whether it's the Louvre, the Metropolitan or the Tate, some of the world's top art museums have become destinations in…
Amal Clooney to lecture on human rights law at Columbia University
March 7, 2015
Amal Clooney to lecture on human rights law at Columbia University
Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney will join Columbia Law School as a visiting faculty member this spring, the New York-based…
Paris museums consider selfie-stick ban for safety
March 7, 2015
Paris museums consider selfie-stick ban for safety
Bad news for selfie-stick lovers. Museums in Paris are moving towards banning the popular devices, which allow smartphone owners to…
Iraqi national museum reopens early to defy IS group artefact destruction
March 6, 2015
Iraqi national museum reopens early to defy IS group artefact destruction
Iraq's national museum officially reopened in Baghdad on Saturday after 12 years of painstaking efforts during which close to a…
IS bulldozes ancient city of Nimrud in Iraq
March 6, 2015
IS bulldozes ancient city of Nimrud in Iraq
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (IS) group began bulldozing the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in Iraq on…
Mummified monk inside Buddha statue is museum draw
March 6, 2015
Mummified monk inside Buddha statue is museum draw
A Buddha statue from China that conceals the remains of a monk who turned himself into a mummy almost a millennium ago…
Youssef, 16, runs art galleries, highly-awarded
March 4, 2015
Youssef, 16, runs art galleries, highly-awarded
“I long for the days of my course with Syran plastic artist Sorour Elwany,” with those words 16-year-old Youssef Ayman,…