World to remember Darwish with readings day
Berlin - Recently deceased Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish is to be remembered with a world-wide day of readings of his work on October 5, including at the 2008 International Literature Festival in Berlin. Darwish died on August 9 following...
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Zurich train station temporarily becomes opera hall
Zurich - Zurich's main train station was transformed into an opera hall for a special production of the opera La Traviata. Tuesday night's three-hour production, sponsored by Swiss television, was viewed by train station patrons, but was also broadca...
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2008-10-01 ] Category : [
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Ramses II bust is discovered near Cairo
Cairo - Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a pink granite head, believed to Portray that of King Ramses II, in the Nile Delta town of Tell Basta northeast of Cairo, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) said on Wednesday. The 76 cm-high h...
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2008-09-24 ] Category : [
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Turkey culture programme in Frankfurt: 300 events
Frankfurt - Turkey is to stage 300 cultural events with 700 performers next month in Germany as part of its culture outreach for the Frankfurt Book Fair, fair officials said Wednesday. Every year, one country takes on the role of special guest, highl...
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2008-09-24 ] Category : [
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Full up as Germany's Oktoberfest opens for business
Munich - Several of the main beer tents at Oktoberfest in Munich were declared full, with no one else allowed in, just before the annual event was ceremonially opened on Saturday. Performing one of the great rituals required of the mayor of Munich, C...
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2008-09-20 ] Category : [
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Good Oktoberfest manners: sip the beer slowly
Munich - As Munich gears up for the Saturday opening of its annual Oktoberfest beer festival, a business adviser issued a handbook on how to stay graceful while drinking one-litre mugs of beer. Lydia Morawietz said Friday one of the key tips in her b...
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2008-09-19 ] Category : [
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Financial turmoil endangers US culture scene
New York - The US arts scene is famously dependent on private philanthropy for its survival. Very little federal, state or city government money comes it way. That's why museum, theatre and opera directorsare watching nervously as Wall Street's finan...
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2008-09-18 ] Category : [
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