King Salman and Crown Prince offer condolences to Azerbaijan president over plane crash    Shihana to continue serve as chief of reconstituted board of Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property    Ministry of Interior: Over 28 million digital identities issued via Absher    176 teams carry out 1.4 million volunteer hours at Prophet's Mosque in 2024    RCU launches women's football development project    RDIA launches 2025 Research Grants on National Priorities    Damac appoints Portuguese coach Nuno Almeida    GASTAT: Protected land areas grow 7.1% in 2023, making up 18.1% of Kingdom's total land area    Kuwait and Oman secure dramatic wins in Khaleeji Zain 26 Group A action    South Korea becomes 'super-aged' society, new data shows    Trump criticizes Biden for commuting death sentences    Russian ballistic missile attack hits Kryvyi Rih on Christmas Eve    Financial gain: Saudi Arabia's banking transformation is delivering a wealth of benefits, to the Kingdom and beyond    Four given jail terms for Amsterdam violence against football fans    Blake Lively's claims put spotlight on 'hostile' Hollywood tactics    Five things everyone should know about smoking    Saudi Arabia starts Gulf Cup 26 campaign with a disappointing loss to Bahrain    Gulf Cup: Hervé Renard calls for Saudi players to show pride    Do cigarettes belong in a museum    Marianne Jean-Baptiste on Oscars buzz for playing 'difficult' woman    Order vs. Morality: Lessons from New York's 1977 Blackout    India puts blockbuster Pakistani film on hold    The Vikings and the Islamic world    Filipino pilgrim's incredible evolution from an enemy of Islam to its staunch advocate    Exotic Taif Roses Simulation Performed at Taif Rose Festival    Asian shares mixed Tuesday    Weather Forecast for Tuesday    Saudi Tourism Authority Participates in Arabian Travel Market Exhibition in Dubai    Minister of Industry Announces 50 Investment Opportunities Worth over SAR 96 Billion in Machinery, Equipment Sector    HRH Crown Prince Offers Condolences to Crown Prince of Kuwait on Death of Sheikh Fawaz Salman Abdullah Al-Ali Al-Malek Al-Sabah    HRH Crown Prince Congratulates Santiago Peña on Winning Presidential Election in Paraguay    SDAIA Launches 1st Phase of 'Elevate Program' to Train 1,000 Women on Data, AI    41 Saudi Citizens and 171 Others from Brotherly and Friendly Countries Arrive in Saudi Arabia from Sudan    Saudi Arabia Hosts 1st Meeting of Arab Authorities Controlling Medicines    General Directorate of Narcotics Control Foils Attempt to Smuggle over 5 Million Amphetamine Pills    NAVI Javelins Crowned as Champions of Women's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Competitions    Saudi Karate Team Wins Four Medals in World Youth League Championship    Third Edition of FIFA Forward Program Kicks off in Riyadh    Evacuated from Sudan, 187 Nationals from Several Countries Arrive in Jeddah    SPA Documents Thajjud Prayer at Prophet's Mosque in Madinah    SFDA Recommends to Test Blood Sugar at Home Two or Three Hours after Meals    SFDA Offers Various Recommendations for Safe Food Frying    SFDA Provides Five Tips for Using Home Blood Pressure Monitor    SFDA: Instant Soup Contains Large Amounts of Salt    Mawani: New shipping service to connect Jubail Commercial Port to 11 global ports    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Delivers Speech to Pilgrims, Citizens, Residents and Muslims around the World    Sheikh Al-Issa in Arafah's Sermon: Allaah Blessed You by Making It Easy for You to Carry out This Obligation. Thus, Ensure Following the Guidance of Your Prophet    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques addresses citizens and all Muslims on the occasion of the Holy month of Ramadan    

Articles of the author Jeffrey R Sipe
A beauty called Jeddah debuts in Dubai
THE drudgery of the workaday life in Jeddah often has a tendency to bury the city's beauty beneath a malaise of crowds, noise and pollution. The role of the artist -- one of the roles, anyway -- is to renew that vision of beauty and allow us to see (...)

01 - 09 - 2008
When colors speak for the soul...
FIGURATIVE drawing and painting has a far stronger tradition in the Middle East than the abstract work that regularly fills galleries in the West. And nowhere is that more apparent than in the work of famous Bahraini artist, Abdullah Al-Muharraqi, (...)

25 - 08 - 2008
Picasso comes to Abu Dhabi
THERE is quite possibly no artist more influential in the evolution of art in the past 100 years than Pablo Picasso. Now, for the first time, 180 paintings, drawings and sculptures by Picasso, stretching from his early blue period to shortly before (...)

12 - 06 - 2008
Showdown in ‘The Forbidden Kingdom'
If acting and story were the reasons behind the worldwide success of Hong Kong kung fu movies, there wouldn't be many in existence beyond ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.' And the current summer release, ‘The Forbidden Kingdom' would not have made (...)

05 - 06 - 2008
Revisiting a legend that had its day
It has been a long time since a film has been hyped as much as “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” the fourth installment of the now iconic series and the first in 19 years. Little wonder, really, since director Steven Spielberg's (...)

29 - 05 - 2008
A techno-image of Emirates
The intellectual underpinnings of art evolve with the material employed in its creation and artists are responsible for the evolution of both. While the exploration and exploitation of materials is one tendency of art, if form and content are not (...)

15 - 05 - 2008
‘Speed Racer', a new world made
The Wachowski brothers, Andy and Larry, are responsible for the Matrix movies and V is for Vengeance so it's not entirely out of character for them to tackle the “live-action” remake of the old Japanese anime TV series, Speed Racer. Nor is it (...)

15 - 05 - 2008
Bringing the uniqueness of Sudan to the fore
Egypt is the world's oldest tourist destination, its millenia of civilization having been explored by travelers from as far back as ancient Greece and Rome for no other reason than to marvel at the remains of what once was the center of the (...)

05 - 05 - 2008
The outer edge of luxury
Approaching the Arabian Gulf on an otherwise nondescript Abu Dhabi avenue, the Emirates Palace Hotel appears as a gleaming city in the clouds. In the dusky waterfront haze, the massive structure seems to be floating above the corniche, its central (...)

23 - 04 - 2008
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