Culture & Arts

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) recently unveiled six additional permanent galleries in its Art of the Islamic Worlds wing. An Iranian-born collector, Hossein Afshar, and al-Sabah Collection in Kuwait have provided most of the works on display. The…

World Book Day is an internationally recognized event celebrated on the 23rd of April, which was introduced by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The idea was inspired by booksellers in Catalonia, Spain, where a strand of…

A massive fire raced through an overcrowded refugee camp for Rohingya people in southern Bangladesh, leaving thousands homeless, a fire official and the United Nations said. Thousands of people lost their homes as the fire, which broke out on Sunday,…

The American famous “Metropolitan Museum of Art” has published on its official website, an art painting, dating back to the Ottoman era, which lists what it described the first historical stages leading to the Battle of Karbala. In its description…

The United Nations on Wednesday (Jan 24) inscribed an ancient city and its dam in war-torn Yemen and a futurist park in cash-strapped Lebanon on its world heritage list. The UN cultural agency listed both as world heritage sites in…

Karbala Scholars’ Heritage Revival Conference was held on December 10 and 11, 2022, under the auspices of the Karbala Center for Studies and Research, one of the centers under the supervision of the Holy Shrine of Imam Hussein, peace be…

The Collector, a global research site specialized in antiquities and heritage affairs around the world, lauded the aesthetic architecture and designs of the historic Al-Ukhaidir Palace in the holy city of Karbala. In a detailed article, the site said, “The…

Zaid the Martyr Holy Shrine witnessed the establishment of the Tenth Annual ‘Haleef Al-Quran’ Festival, in the presence of a number of official and popular personalities and followers of AhlulBayet, peace be upon them. The festival, which was held under…

Bein al-Haramein in Karbala witnessed the inauguration of the International Exhibition of the Holy Qur’an, with the participation of a selection of Quranic institutions and specialized centers from inside and outside the country, in addition to more than 30 Quran…

An exhibition of rare Quran copies and other manuscripts has been launched by Imam Ali Holy Shrine in Najaf, Iraq, on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Imam Ali, peace be upon him.Old handwritten copies of the Quran, some…