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Light, suspended: Earth hour and a 700 year-old blown glass mosque lamp By Idries Trevathan and Daniel Kany Earth Hour is held…

“Ithra Library Membership” launched for booklovers for a limited time An old Arabian proverb says, “a book is like a garden…

DHAHRAN, SAUDI ARABIA, MARCH 27, 2020 – The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) has created Saudi Arabia’s go-to…

Roses are red, violets are blue…. Poetry has been around for many centuries with an ongoing allure. From Rumi's connection with…

Lulwah Al Homoud: Spirit, Word & PenInterviewed by Daniel Kany - 5 March 2020 On February 27, 2020, London-based Saudi artist…

On view at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) through April 2020 is a lavishly decorated interior space dating…

3 Local Saudi Drummers sit in with the Dhahran Big Band at Ithra Theater By Faisal Alyousif Performing Arts Coordinator…

Before its prosperous blossoming, the desert lands of Saudi Arabia were populated by humble Arab tribes and dominated by the sand…

The Inspiration of the Arabic Language The revolutionary Nelson Mandela once said, “If you talk to a man in a language he…