DUBAI: After recently coming fifth in the UNESCO International Competition for the Reconstruction and Rehabilitation of Mosul’s Al-Nouri Mosque with his team, Samir Nicolas Saddi has big plans for heritage rehabilitation around the Middle East. The Beirut-born Canadian-Lebanese architect, who founded the Arab Research Center for Architecture and Design of the Environment
DUBAI: The Lebanese artist discusses his abstract painting, damaged by the Beirut blast and recently showcased by Leila Heller Gallery in Dubai. The painting has recently been showcased by Leila Heller Gallery in Dubai. (Supplied) I was not in Beirut on August 4. I was coming back after someone called me and told me that there had been a big explosion. My house was 100 meters
RIYADH: The Saudi services sector made up the largest proportion of the Kingdom’s economy on record last year, Al Eqtisadiah reported, citing official data. Services contributed SR1.47 trillion ($392 billion) to the Saudi economy in 2020, a decrease of 1.6 percent, but made up a record 56.7 percent of GDP, which shrank 11.7 percent amid the coronavirus pandemic. Saudi Arabia
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) issued an operating license to Infinity Aviation Academy to operate as a flight training center within the Kingdom, it said in a statement. The operating license (GACAR-143) focuses on training aircraft engineers, airmen, and cabin crew members and qualifying them to work for airlines approved by the authority.