2009
The Cultural District on Saadiyat Island is the future – the art and cultural events in the posh Emirates Palace hotel are the present. Within just a few years, Abu Dhabi has made the leap from a cultural desert to a cultural oasis – thanks to the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH).
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Interview with Dr. Saeed Abdullah Salman, President of Ajman University of Science and Technology Network, conducted by Rainer Schubert, Managing Editor, ARAB FORUM, Education is one subject, if not the subject, deemed in the Arab countries as being relevant to the future. more...
2008
Syria is not a country of mass tourism and does want to become one. All the same, tourism is one of its industries with a future and growth potential. In 2007, revenues from foreign tourist amounted to 2.7 billion U.S. dollars, with 6.9 billion U.S. dollars being targeted for 2017, as Tourism Minister Dr. Saadalla Agha Al Kalaa announced at the German-Arab Tourism Forum during this year’s ITB in which Syria was a partner country. more...
Syria’s image has been dominated until now by the unresolved conflict in the Near East. The terms used for this Levantine country have stretched all the way to “rogue state.” But politically movement can be noted both, both internally and externally. One of Syria’s special hallmarks is an incomparably rich history that continues to have en effect to this day, above all through the co-existence of numerous religions.
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2007
Algiers is the 12th Cultural Capital after Cairo, Tunis, Sharjah, Beirut, Riyadh, Kuwait City, Amman, Rabat, Sana’a, Khartoum and Muscat since 1996 when the ALECSO (Arab League Education, Cultural and Scientific Organization) in Cairo began determining the Cultural Capital of the Arab world.
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One of the oldest civilisations on the Arabian Peninsula, Oman is a beautiful country steeped in history where it is thought that man first appeared after the ice age in about 12,000 B.C. Many fascinating discoveries have also been made about the pre-Islamic past and archaeological sites have been found dating back to the third millennium B.C. showing a definite connection with that cradle of ancient civilisation, Mesopotamia. more...
