DUBAI: Move over, Cairo, Beirut and Casablanca...
Dubai is launching a drive to become one of the Arab world’s top centres for art, design, film and fashion — areas that have traditionally been dominated by old Arab cities outside the Gulf
Han Bekke, president of the International Apparel Federation (IAF), thinks Pakistan’s apparel manufacturers must invest in product development, fashion education and creativity to build their own brands to boost exports and compete with other countries in global markets...
Probably they ignored what happened globally,” Mr Bekke responded when asked if he could explain the factors that might have hampered Pakistan’s apparel industry...
A writer, professor and civil society activist from the University of Sindh, Sindhu built a cafe at the Sindh Museum to offer a space for creative people and intellectuals from Hyderabad and other parts of Sindh where they would engage in lively discussions...
When I asked Sindhu about her brainchild, she answers: “I always have had this feeling that Hyderabad needs a space or an autaq [drawing room] as we say in Sindhi, where...
'Gauguin the Alchemist’ is how the organisers of the exhibition at the Grand Palace in Paris try to construe the character and the achievements of an artist who lived a stormy and tumultuous life, leaving behind him an unaccountable assortment of creations —paintings, ceramics, wooden sculptures and engravings...
These artworks are impossible to be classified in a single category even more than a century after his death
This creative facet is not visible to a big number of his admirers...
KARACHI: The Creative Cities project of the British Council kicked off two years ago in an attempt to introduce interventions in different Pakistani cities, namely Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad, and focused on the creative enterprises within them...
After launching a research report that identities “five Pakistani creative cities that have the potential to become thriving creative economies”, a panel discussion was held at the British...
How do the silenced speak when there is none to speak for them? It requires creative thought to ensure the message is communicated...
Perhaps Khwaja, interviewed by the BBC, who sits on a village charpai and rustles up customised mobs for hire with a few phone calls, can be replaced with a group of creative minds who can get messages across peacefully...
Then comes the '80s with Nazia Hassan's 'Aap Jesa Koi', followed by Mussarat Nazir's 'Chitta Kukar Banay' and ending with none other than the beloved 'Dil Dil Pakistan' by Vital Signs...
Creative thinking is often associated with masculine qualities, and people in positions of high power are more likely to rely on stereotypes when forming judgments about others...
IT is no secret that my name appears on the list of journalists Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to see behind bars, and I won’t hide my own expectations that he will suffer that end...
So, despite my intrinsic optimism about the future of my country’s democracy, I am writing this article in pre-emptive exile, self-imposed so as to avoid imprisonment
“Creative thinking and critical thinking are interlinked,” she said...
uk — the site that provides (completely free) writing prompts and exercises to help you get started with creative writing and break through writing blocks...
But (more than any state functionality) the office of deputy commissioner was the best possible (and creative) solution for the exigencies of those turbulent times for establishing the state’s writ in war-torn jurisdictions...
Nearly a century passed before Pakistan experienced a major shake-up in the historical institution of district administration as a result of the introduction of Local Government Ordinance, 2001...
“Creative expression is individualistic – every drawing should be different from the other...