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Abu Dhabi, UAEThursday 25 February 2021

Mortazavi x Thinking Huts Design. Courtesy Studio Mortazavi

US non-profit to build 'world's first 3D-printed school' in Madagascar
'No Time to Die' will release a week early in the UK, while 'Loki' and 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' have also had their release dates revealed. 

'Spider-Man 3', 'Loki' and 'No Time to Die' release dates

Film
Paul McCartney will trace his life through 154 songs, from his teens and early partnership with fellow Beatle John Lennon to his solo work over the past half century, in a new memoir. AP

Paul McCartney to release 900-page memoir in November

Music
Kelsey Grammer is confirmed to be returning to 'Frasier' when it is rebooted in 2022. Getty Images 

'Frasier' and 'Rugrats' reboots coming to streamer Paramount+

Television

10 stars you didn’t know had famous parents

Film

UK's Reading and Leeds music festivals to go ahead

Music

Will Bollywood's remake of 'The Girl on the Train' live up to Hollywood original?

Film
IN DEPTH
Aditi Rao Hydari in the Bollywood remake of 'The Girl on the Train'. Netflix

Will Bollywood's remake of 'The Girl on the Train' live up to Hollywood original?

Film
'Bridesmaids' star Maya Rudolph, 'Tenet' actor John David Washington and 'Once Upon a Time In ... Hollywood' actress Margaret Qualley all have very famous parents. AFP

10 stars you didn’t know had famous parents: From Maya Rudolph to Eve Hewson

Film
The author uses Strava to meet up with like-minded cyclists for rides around Al Qudra bike track in Dubai. Courtesy Dubai Media Office

Why this fitness tracking app is the friendliest social media network

Arts&Culture
French electronic music stars Daft Punk have split up, ending one of the era's defining dancefloor acts. / AFP / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Karl Walter

One More Time: 10 songs that showcase the musical evolution of Daft Punk

Music
The Academy Awards are the biggest, most respected, highest profile of all the movie awards in the world. AP 

An indispensable guide to the film awards season

Film
'Celebration' (2020) by Esraa Zidan. Courtesy of the artist

'Everything came together beautifully': What to expect from Egypt Art Fair
Artist Sara Ahli. Courtesy 101

Emirati artist Sara Ahli takes inspiration from the human body in new show
'Through the Gates', shot in Al Qou'a. Samy Olabi

The Dubai astrophotographer capturing the UAE's starry skies
'weeper capuchin' by Stelios Kallinikou. Courtesy the artist and Grey Noise, Dubai

How the Japanese concept of being half-asleep inspired this new art series
An interior image from The Green Corner, a new cultural space that has opened in Al Muharraq, Bahrain. The Green Corner

Green Corner: How Bahrain's new cultural landmark is preserving regional heritage
Wei Fu's 'People on a Train' won the prize for best travel photograph. Wei Fu

Dutch photographer Hossein Fardinfard wins best photograph at Xposure Awards
Al Najwa’ is a love deeper than words. Scripted by Nihad Nadam.

Say it right this Valentine's: 6 Arabic words that describe stages of love
Lawyer Rod Ponton appears with a kitten filter turned on during a virtual hearing of the 394th District Court of Texas on February 9. Reuters

The cat, the lawyer and 8 other hilarious Zoom mishaps
FILM
'No Time to Die' will release a week early in the UK, while 'Loki' and 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' have also had their release dates revealed. 

Here's when 'Spider-Man 3', 'Loki' and 'No Time to Die' will be released

'Frasier' and 'Rugrats' reboots coming to streamer Paramount+

10 stars you didn’t know had famous parents: From Maya Rudolph to Eve Hewson

Will Bollywood's remake of 'The Girl on the Train' live up to Hollywood original?

21 children's films adults will actually enjoy watching
ART
The creatives part of the Arab British Centre's Connect ME Digital Residency programme

Arab British Centre launches new artwork from Middle East digital residency

'Everything came together beautifully': What to expect from Egypt Art Fair

Emirati artist Sara Ahli takes inspiration from the human body in new show

100,000-piece Lego bricks sculpture reimagines medieval Mauritanian city Kumbi Saleh

Culture Summit Abu Dhabi: 2021 event to focus on the 'cultural economy​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​'
BOOKS
Hillary Clinton with her 2017 memoir 'What Happened', which covered her 2016 presidential campaign against Donald Trump. AFP

'State of Terror': Hillary Clinton to dip her toe into fiction with new political thriller

Famed Beat poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies aged 101

Planet Word: Inside Washington DC's newest museum

Find books from Dubai public libraries using this new app feature

How this new book traces the history of graphic design in the Arab world
MUSIC
Paul McCartney will trace his life through 154 songs, from his teens and early partnership with fellow Beatle John Lennon to his solo work over the past half century, in a new memoir. AP

Paul McCartney to release 900-page memoir, woven with 154 songs

How Lina Makoul's debut album tells the stories of Palestinian youth

UK's Reading and Leeds music festivals to go ahead this summer

One More Time: 10 songs that showcase the musical evolution of Daft Punk

Spotlight on Muslim voices: Obamas to produce Ramadan podcast for Spotify
ON STAGE
Performer Alice Rende from Brazil limbers-up before performing her cortotionism show at the International Circus Arts Biennale, in Marseille, Frane. AP

Covid-19 hits circus’s big event but the show goes on

Legendary Arab divas of film and music immortalised in Paris

UK theatre industry appeals for Brexit clarity and more funding

Eurovision Song Contest 2021 will 'definitely' go ahead in May

'A true legend': Award-winning actor Hal Holbrook has died aged 95
TELEVISION
Hend Sabry is reprising her popular role as the young pharmacist Ola Abd ElSabour in a new Netflix series. Christopher Pike / The National 

Hend Sabry to reprise her role as Ola in new Egyptian Netflix series

'Frasier' and 'Rugrats' reboots coming to streamer Paramount+

Egyptian actor Youssef Shaaban in hospital with Covid-19

Golden Globes: Ava DuVernay spotlights 'widely known' lack of black representation

'The Simpsons': Kevin Michael Richardson to voice Dr Hibbert on the show

COMMENT
Twitter is enlisting its users to help combat misinformation on its service by flagging and notating misleading and false tweets. AP Photo

Ban the bot: the true force behind malicious disinformation online

How the healing art of sudoku became a YouTube sensation

Pocket prayer mats to apps: 5 ways to make the most of Friday prayers in a pandemic

Augmented reality and 5G: How technology will shape our world in 2021

Facebook’s text summarisation feature to change reading habits