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Breathing life into Bedouin poetry

  Abu Dhabi / AFP The Middle East’s poetry equivalent of “Pop Idol” is helping to keep alive an age-old tradition using bedouin dialect, which is barely understood outside the Arabian Gulf. Apart from the glory, a Kuwaiti student took home five million dirhams ($1.36 million), the top prize in a television show followed by millions of poetry lovers across ...

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Swipe to swap your fashion

  Mainz / DPA Ethical and fashionable at the same time — this is the idea behind Darpdecade, a digital swapping platform for clothes that aims to combine trend awareness with conscience-free consumption.It all started with a gin and tonic and a scarf swapped for a jacket at a flea market in Tallinn some five years ago. University student Robin Balser ...

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Baked to perfection

  SUNAINA RANA/ Emirates Business 800 Degrees Neapolitan Pizzeria was originally founded by Anthony Carron in the US. Over the years, 800 Degrees is striving to honour the heritage of old world Italian tradition with its pizzas baked with only the freshest and ripest ingredients right in front of the customers. With an innovative menu of completely customisable pizzas, from the ...

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