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culture

A portion of the Epic of Gilgamesh that was looted from Iraq and sold for $1.6 million to Hobby Lobby for display in the Museum of the Bible. AFP

US to return to Iraq thousands of artifacts looted after invasion

culture

Ancient artifact smuggled into the US is shown at an event in Washington. AFP

Ancient ‘Gilgamesh’ tablet to be returned to Iraq from US

Morocco

A file picture shows a Moroccan archeologist cleaning up a 5000-year old human skeleton in a grotto near Khemisset (80km east of Rabat). (AFP)

Archeologists hail ‘chronological rebound’ after Morocco stone age find

Lebanon

Lebanese artist Sara Abou Mrad sands a sculpture, made of shattered glass collected in the aftermath of the August 4 explosion at Beirut port, at her studio in the Lebanese capital. AFP

British Museum to restore Lebanese artifacts damaged in blast

Syria

A self-portrait by Hala al-Faisal: Painting and music, food to the soul. TAW

‘Stand by Syria’, says multi-talented artist Hala al-Faisal

festival

Actors perform on stage at the National Theatre in Baghdad. (Reuters)

The curtain rises on first Iraqi theatre festival

film

A file picture of Moroccan film director Nabil Ayouch in Casablanca. (AFP)

Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch scoops two top prizes at Cannes Film Festival

cine

The 74th Cannes Film Festival – Photocall for the film “Lingui” (The Sacred Bonds / Lingui, les liens sacres) in competition – Cannes, France, July 9, 2021. (REUTERS)

Chadian women take Cannes festival centre stage

Morocco

The Sultan of Morocco is an 1845 oil on canvas painting by the French Romantic and Orientalist painter Eugène Delacroix. (facebook)

Delacroix comes back to Morocco in unprecedented exhibition