LONDON: Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture and air carrier Flynas have started a partnership for the “Year of Arabic Calligraphy” initiative launched by the ministry. The Saudi airline has decorated its 12th Airbus A320neo with the initiative’s logo. The plane was part of an agreement signed with Airbus in 2017 to purchase 120 A320neo aircraft, with a total value of SR32
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture has reached a new gender balance of 50 percent in the workplace with many female employees holding top positions.
Dur Kattan, the general director of the deputyship of communication and media, outlined the Ministry of Culture’s mission of empowerment aligned with Vision 2030.
She said that Vision 2030 sought to “empower everyone; men and women. I am lucky to live in these supportive, inspiring and motivational circumstances, with men and women of my generation.”
Over the past two years, the ministry has been exploring new ways to empower Saudi women, not only by offering employment opportunities but also by providing skill development and professional training, and ensuring equal opportunities without gender bias.
DUBAI: Last week it was announced by Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture that Burak Cakmak had been appointed to lead the Kingdom’s Fashion Commission, one of the 11 bodies under the Kingdom’s Ministry of Culture, to help develop the country’s burgeoning fashion industry.
“I was honored to have a chance to join the team at the Fashion Commission to lead the implementation of an ambitious strategy to build a robust fashion industry in Saudi Arabia,” said Cakmak, a former Dean of Fashion at the Parsons School of Design in New York, to Arab News.
“Saudi Arabia has all the key elements for building a successful fashion industry today. With traditions and heritage to inspire, its creative community keen to build new businesses and a fashion conscious young population engaged in retail and social media with fashion. Saudi (Arabia) is in a great place to become a key influencer in the region and globally,” he added.
Burak Cakmak to Lead Saudi Arabia s Fashion Commission businessoffashion.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from businessoffashion.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
What is the most characteristic element of a
Salvator Mundi, the archetypal image of Christ as Saviour of the World? It is Christ’s right hand raised in blessing. The left hand cradling an orb completes the type, which was fashionable in north-eastern Italy from around 1500, originating in Northern Europe.
But now, two very different kinds of examination of Leonardo’s enigmatic picture, which sold for $450m at Christie’s New York in 2017 and is now owned by the Saudi Arabian culture ministry, suggest that this “
Salvator Mundi” was initially conceived as just a head and shoulders, with the hands and arms added later on. One analysis was conducted by the Louvre’s experts, when Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture permitted detailed scientific analysis of its picture in 2018; the other was conducted by a computer scientist and an art historian, and has just been accepted for publication in The MIT Press’s