Water Splashing Festival begins in China’s Yunnan Province
People splash water on each other during a celebration marking the upcoming Water Splashing Festival in Mangshi, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, April 11, 2013. The Water Splashing Festival, also the New Year of the Dai ethnic group, will last for three or four days. People in folk costumes participate in a celebration marking the upcoming […]
Indian devotees gather at Hindu Temple for Navratri festival
Indian devotees stand in queue to offer prayers at a Hindu temple on the first day of ‘Navratri’ or the nine nights festival in Allahabad, India, Thursday, April 11, 2013. ‘Navratri’ honors the Hindu goddess Shakti, or divine mother. <AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh>
Mazen Maarouf: The Arab Dictators create their intellectuals
He is one of the creative voices of Arab poetry. He worked for several newspapers in Lebanon as for some newspapers abroad. Belonging to a Palestinian 1948 refugee family, (b. 1978) lived and studied in Beirut to hold a BS degree in general chemistry at Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences. His latest collective poetry book […]
Nepalese Hindu devotees celebrate the Bisket Jatra festival
Nepalese Hindu devotees pull an ancient chariot containing depictions of Bhairava and Bhadrakali around the city as they celebrate the Bisket Jatra festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. During the festival, also regarded as New Year festival, images of the god Bhairava and his female counterpart Bhadrakali are enshrined in two large chariots […]
A young Hindu nationalist plays bugle to mark Hindu new year
In this Sunday, April 7, 2013 photo, a young Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) volunteer plays the bugle or the trumpet, marking the upcoming Vikram Samvat in Allahabad, India. Vikram Samvat, the beginning of a new year in the Hindu calendar, will start April 11, 2013. In this Sunday, April 7, 2013 photo, young […]
A tourist takes photo with tulips in full bloom in Indian-coltrolled Kashmir
A tourist takes photographs of tulips in a tulip garden in Srinagar, summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir, April 3, 2013. The Tulip Garden in Indian-controlled Kashmir has become the prime attraction for visiting foreign and domestic tourists, officials said. A tourist takes photographs of his son amid tulips in a tulip garden in Srinagar, summer […]
The 6th Artbosphorus contemporary art fair opens in Istanbul
A spectator looks at a painting at the Artbosphorus contemporary art fair in Istanbul, Turkey, April 4, 2013. The 6th Artbosphorus contemporary art fair opened at Istanbul’s Halic convention center on Thursday. The fair’s concept is “Parallel Stories, Constructs, Unknown”. The exhibition will showcase paintings, photographs, sculptures, video art programs and other works of art […]
[Book Review] The world is a map of books given to knowledge lovers
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The world is a map of books given to minds that love knowledge. Here we have some of the new publications in the Arabic world, and internationally, as electronic drops from the ink of knowledge all over the world. New Releases in Arab world: • “The Queue” novel by doctor and artist Basma Abdel Aziz, […]
Villagers showcase Indian rural arts and craft traditions at a Delhi festival
Villagers of Mubarakpur of Azamgarh District show the handmade sarees at the Festival of Rural Art and Craft of Azamgarh in New Delhi, capital of India, April 4, 2013. The 3-day festival in New Delhi will showcase the arts and craft traditions of three villages in Azamgarh District – Hariharpur which has a heritage of […]
Folk artists perform traditional Chinese fire conferring ritual in Kaifeng
Folk artists take part in a performance of the traditional fire conferring ritual in Kaifeng City, central China’s Henan Province, April 3, 2013. It was an ancient local tradition to build new fire and confer the kindlings on the occasion of Qingming Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, which falls on April 4 this year. <Xinhua/Wang Song>
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