Celebrating Earth Day 2008 at Prince Salman Science Oasis – May 5-11, 2008
The Public Affairs Office of the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, in collaboration with Prince Salman Science Oasis, is organizing a week-long event celebrating Earth Day 2008. The event includes activities focusing on Earth awareness issues for students and parents from Monday, May 5 until Sunday, May 11. Activities include a Green Technology Poster Show, the Earth Balloon, tree planting, coloring, environment-related interactive games and movies, and a live demonstration on water preservation.
U.S Department of State webchats in Arabic
Here is a list of upcoming Webchats in Arabic
- Detainees and Military Commissions: May 7
- Inflation in the Gulf: May 14
- Iranian Nuclear Aggression: June 11
- To participate in any of these webchats, please click here
- For a list of past webchats and their transcripts, please click here
- For details about this program in English and Arabic, please click here
Kennedy Center to Showcase Artistic Traditions of Arab World
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| Lebanese musician/composer Marcel Khalife performs on the oud, an Arab lute. (John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts) |
Washington -- “The best way to learn about other people,” says Michael Kaiser, president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, “is through their culture.” Kaiser practices what he preaches. In cooperation with the League of Arab States, Kaiser has spent the past four years shaping a major three-week festival highlighting the arts and culture of the Arab world. The festival will take place at Washington’s Kennedy Center early in 2009. Called “Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World,” the event will be a panorama of creativity -- embracing dance, music and theater and encompassing such specialized presentations as oud (Arabic lute) music and the sacred 13th-century mystical art of the whirling dervishes. An arabesque -- the term derives from the word “Arab” -- is a ninth-century Islamic decorative element utilizing intricate floral and geometric patterns. The term also commonly defines a ballet position, but more generally, it describes visual, dance, theater or musical styles that emerge from Arab culture or are influenced strongly by the Arab world .... “Al Kasaba Theater, based in Ramallah on the West Bank, has created a dramatic oral history collage, Alive From Palestine: Stories Under Occupation. And there are collective tributes, as well -- including an evening of sacred music drawing on instrumentalists and choruses from across the Arab landscape, and Golden Age of Arab Music, an assemblage of leading singers from Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Syria. (English) (Arabic)
President Bush’s Recent Statements on Iraq
Statement by President Bush on Iraq (More) -- (Arabic)
Bush Accepts Petraeus, Crocker’s Recommendations on Iraq (More) -- (Arabic)
