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Golden Donald Trump Effigy Seen at CPAC Was Made in Mexico On 2/28/21 at 6:03 AM EST A 6ft-tall golden statue of Donald Trump that pays homage to the ex-presidents promises to create more American manufacturing jobs was ...made in Mexico. The fiberglass sculpture, which depicts Trump in Stars and Stripes swim shorts, was assembled over the border and then painted in Tampa, Florida, according to its designer. Tommy Zegan made the remarks on Saturday during an interview in front of the effigy tha...

“This is not an idol,” said Mr. Zegan, the son of missionaries and a former youth pastor and graduate of the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago who now works as an artist with a studio in Rosarito Beach, Mexico. “Nobody is worshipping this. Nobody is making sacrifices to it. This is a sculpture and liberals don’t know the difference between a sculpture and an idol,” he said. “That’s all I can say.” The comparisons to the golden calf were popular with liberal-leaning news outlets i...

Centuries of fascination for ‘The One Thousand and One Nights’ were examined by two winners of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award this weekend, touching on contemporary interpretation and challenges. A detail from the cover of Richard van Leeuwen’s ‘The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings.’ Image: Brill ‘Part of the DNA of Western Literature’ The two most recent winners of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Arabic Culture in Other Languages catego...