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by Anitra Pavlico Lately I’ve been craving the music of French composer Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). As reality continues to be fraught, in the midst of a pandemic, social unrest, culture wars, and on and on, Ravel’s music offers an enticing escape. Described by his close friend, concert pianist Ricardo Viñes, as “inclined by temperament toward the poetic and fanciful,” Ravel created music that continues to captivate with its otherworldly beauty. Another reason for his appeal now, when the public health crisis has disrupted all of our quotidian rhythms, is that rhythm is the sine qua ...

Expo 2020 Dubai gets new boost with French pavilion inauguration 5 hours ago Reem Al Hashimy and Franck Riester along with other dignitaries during the inauguration ceremony in Dubai on Thursday. The French Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai was officially inaugurated on Thursday in the presence of Reem Al Hashimy, Director General of Expo 2020 Dubai and Minister of State for International Co-operation and Franck Riester, Delegate Minister for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness together with the Pavilion’s main sponsors. ENGIE, the first ambassador of France’s P...

06 abril 2021 Expo Dubai: Enel’s innovative light installations will speak to the emotions of visitors of the Italy Pavillion Enel, official provider of the Italy Pavilion, showcases its technologies through two light installations, entitled "Second Sun" and "Second Moon", based on the Internet of Things and an innovative smart metering system that can monitor energy consumption in real time Rome, April 6 th, 2021 Enel's energy will light up the Italy Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai , the world fair set to take place in the United Arab Emirates from October 1 st, 2021– March 31 st...

Charlotte Brontë with a message from the Luddites. Mr. Moore was but half a Briton, and scarcely that. He came of a foreign ancestry by the mother’s side and was himself born and partly reared on a foreign soil. A hybrid in nature, it is probable he had a hybrid’s feeling on many points—patriotism for one. It is likely that he was unapt to attach himself to parties, to sects, even to climes and customs. It is not impossible that he had a tendency to isolate his individual person from any community amid which his lot might temporarily happen to be thrown, and that he felt it to be his b...

abhishek@khaleejtimes.com Filed on April 1, 2021 France, amidst all the Covid clamour last week, quietly nominated its baguettes or the staple bread stick to be included on the Unesco intangible cultural heritage register. And if that verdict, to be announced in late 2022, turns out to be in its favour, then it is sure to go a long way in protecting yet another decades-old tradition, story of deep knowledge and skills, like this status has aimed to do for everything from the UAE’s falconry and date palm to India’s yoga to China’s silk craftsmanship, so they are not lost over t...