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Sharjah: Characters of Arab origin living in foreign countries will increasingly feature in books, writers told the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival (SCRF). They were speaking during a ‘Writers and Readers’ session at the 12th edition of SCRF at Expo Centre Sharjah. Author Aisha Bushby — who was born in Bahrain and lived Kuwait, England, Canada and UK — said: “For me, it was very important to showcase both sides of my individual culture and reflect it in my books. I would love to see Arab children represent themselves in books and not have other people represent them. I couldn�...

NFTs and digital art blockchain: Is blockchain’s digital token new frontier its brightest? So here we are. Two years on and a little deflated. While unregistered or non-exempt token offerings were started with great fanfare, reaching their crescendo in 2017 with the wild-west of unregistered ICOs shot down O.K. Corral-style by the SEC, followed by the utility being sucked out of utility tokens, we have now arrived at the third blockchain marvel attracting ever-increasing interest, and, dare we say it, speculation. Enter non-fungible tokens, now intimately called NFTs or Niftys or other vari...

Top 10 Vince Gill Songs Vince Gill songs are some of the best-written and most beloved of the last three-plus decades of popular music. The multi-talented singer, songwriter and guitarist has created a body of work that is nearly unmatched in the history of country music, in the process charting more than 40 singles and winning numerous CMA Awards and Grammys. Gill's unique blend of exceptional song craft and instrumental ability, combined with one of the purest and most instantly identifiable voices in the genre, has helped him to consistently produce work that stands head and shoulders ab...

10 Essential Jackie Chan Movies Tom Jolliffe offers up ten essential Jackie Chan films… With Jackie Chan celebrating a birthday recently, I thought it high time I offered up a list of 10 essential films from the master of physical action comedy. His popularity has spread across the world from Hong Kong and China, to the west (even after early false starts to launch him as a star in the States). In the mid-80’s he was part of a collective of dynamic physical performers who revolutionised action cinema and the way a fight scene could be choreographed, shot and edited. Among the likes of Sam...

‘THE first hint of an idea came when we were up at Souter Lighthouse in the North East,’ Jay LaBouchardiere, one of half of Dorset folk duo Ninebarrow, recalls. ‘There was a large education board about Cuthbert Collingwood, who was second in command to Lord Nelson at Trafalgar. In our innocence, we had never heard of him. But the name of the board was A Pocket Full of Acorns.’ The phrase become the title of the group’s wonderful fourth album, which was released a few weeks ago to deserved acclaim. In Collingwood’s time, oak trees were crucial in the building of the British N...