The Pearl Initiative, a business-led non-profit organisation promoting corporate accountability in the Gulf Region’s private sector, recently held a roundtable event in Bahrain titled “Whistleblowing: A Pillar of Sound Corporate Governance”. The roundtable convened senior professionals and industry leaders from public and private companies to learn the importance of whistleblowing policies implemented in the Gulf […]

With a series of gut-wrenching images and videos depicting the brutality of war, Afshin Ismaeli, a photojournalist and war photographer from Norway, narrated his experiences of searching for stories in conflict zones across the Middle East on the concluding day of the international photography festival, XPOSURE 2019, held at Expo Centre Sharjah. As a child […]

Photography, according to Spanish philographer Richard Le Manz, is equally essential to communicate the beauty of our natural environment and the complex socio-environmental issues, which threaten our planet. Speaking at the XPOSURE International Photography Festival 2019 on Sunday at a session titled ‘Do not Take Pictures’, Manz said photographers need to start asking themselves a […]

Al Noor Island, Sharjah’s architectural and natural wonder nestled in the Khalid Lagoon, is set to keep families busy through the months of September and October with creativity-inspiring and entertaining art, craft and food decoration workshops. The ‘Get Crafty’ activity comprising three workshops is designed for children and teenagers to spend quality time at Al […]

As part of its strategy to consolidate partnership between the academic sector and maritime industry, the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) – Sharjah Branch participates in the UAE Maritime Week 2019, which was held under the patronage of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai […]

They have been to places where none of us will ever dare venture out into; they have seen things each of us should be grateful we have never had to witness; and they have endured loss, pain and suffering in ways we can barely imagine. Yet, a trio of war photographers – Paul Conroy, Michael […]

As part of the yearlong celebrations of the Sharjah World Book Capital 2019, and in recognition of the long-standing relationship between literature and photography, XPOSURE International Photography Festival 2019 is hosting the ‘Read, Write, Create Africa’ exhibition by Senegalese artist, Omar Victor Diop. Through 10 stunning images of African women and men reading together, sharing […]

XPOSURE 2019, the ongoing photography festival, is a unique and enabling platform that acts as a converging ground for photographers from around the world to showcase their works and share their expertise with their aspiring counterparts. What sets XPOSURE apart, from other photography festivals across the region, is the amount of learning that is facilitated […]

The Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) brought the curtains down on its ‘Creative Publishing Café’ on Saturday, September 21, 2019, organised at Sharjah Publishing City Free Zone (SPCFZ), as part of the Sharjah World Book Capital 2019 celebrations. Bader Mohammed Saab, Coordinator General of ‘Creative Publishing Café’, honoured the participating institutions, including the Sharjah Entrepreneurship Centre […]

For the audience at the ongoing mega Photography Festival, Xposure 2019, being held in Sharjah, the Saturday evening presented a rare opportunity to time travel into the early days of photography. In a fascinating session titled ‘Looking vs Seeing, How Photography Altered Perception,’ conducted by Prof J Tomas Lopez, Professor and Chair, Department of Arts […]