Palestinian filmmaker Hany Abu Assad has been appointed President of the Jury for the 2010 Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF) on October 26-30 2010. Abu Assad will be the first Jury President of the festival launched last year and will preside over DTFF’s Arab Film Competition awarding prizes for Best Arab Film and Best...
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Qatar will this weekend host a forum on the effects of “low” television channels on young people. According to organizers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) cultural forum on June 26-30, the meeting will discuss how some channels are “intellectually destroying, morally corrupting and financially abusing young people in the region.” “The theme of...
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Qatar Charity (QC) has launched a QR 4 million ($1,065,000) project to improve the lives of 65,000 people affected by the crisis in Darfur. The project, to be funded equally by QC and the Qatari government, seeks to provide food security and relief aids and to develop the Southern and Western provinces of Darfur....
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Bahrain has told its ministers to reduce the frequency of their travels abroad to avoid wasting people’s time and hurting their interests. Prime Minister Prince Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa has instructed all ministers to limit their official visits abroad and to reduce the number of delegation members taking trips, Shaikh Ahmad Bin Atiyatallah...
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Kuwaiti lawmakers on Sunday said that the government should shorten summer working days by two hours in a bid to save electricity and avoid an ominous crisis that would affect thousands of homes. The MPs who held an extraordinary session to debate the looming power crisis said that government offices and establishments should open...
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Bahrain has told its ministers to reduce the frequency of their travels abroad to avoid wasting people’s time and hurting their interests. Prime Minister Prince Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa has instructed all ministers to limit their official visits abroad and to reduce the number of delegation members taking trips, Shaikh Ahmad Bin Atiyatallah...
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An Indian initiative allowing citizens to air their grievances directly to the Chief Minister and to get timely answers regarding the provision of public services at the state level will be rewarded by the United Nations this week, UN officials in Bahrain said. The organisation behind the initiative will be one of 23 institutions...
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Kuwait’s education minister is set to launch a project that will provide every high school student with a laptop to help move schools into the digital age. “The project will start right after we finish the necessary infrastructure,” Moudhi Al Hmood said. “There is also an agreement with the curricula directorate to upload all...
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A mini Arab summit will be held in Libya in September, a Kuwaiti daily has said. The summit will bring together the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the Qatari emir Shaikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, the Iraqi president Jalal Talabani, the Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh and the Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi, Al Dar...
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Qatar has topped the list of the most peaceful countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in the 2010 Global Peace Index (GPI). The ranking allowed Qatar to keep the special status among Arab countries for the second consecutive year. Globally, it was ranked as the 15th most peaceful country in...
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