DIVERSIONS
| Nuremberg Stands Tall |
| There’s no other city in the world quite like it. And as Brian Salter
discovers, it’s where the beauty of medieval Germany comes face to face
with the monstrous architecture of Hitler’s Third Reich… |
| And the Winner is... |
| Miss World hopefuls descended upon Abu Dhabi and the stylish Yas Hotel for a night of fashion and fun |
| Chic Happens |
| Louis Vuitton opened its first global concept store and raised the bar for haute happenings in Dubai |
| Write this way |
| National Book Award finalist Bonnie Jo Campbell may soon be cycling to the UAE |
| The sum of all Fractions |
| Oscar Wilde’s claim that “every portrait that is painted with feelings is a portrait of the artist, not the sitter” is almost true in the case of Manaf Edavanakad. His art essay ‘Visible Spirits’ that includes paintings, photographs and fractal art was displayed at the Iranian Club from November 13 to 15. |
| Cultural kaleidoscope |
| The SAARC Folklore Festival 2009 got together a host of traditional offerings from eight countries |
| A Trip worth Taking |
| Marley & Me author John Grogan recounts growing up and grappling with faith in new novel The Longest Trip Home |
| Asia’s top literary honour goes
to Su Tong |
| Chinese writer Su Tong has won Asia’s top literary prize — the Man Asian Literary Prize — with The Boat to Redemption, a bleak novel about a disgraced Communist Party official’s attempts to rebuild his life after the tumultuous Cultural Revolution. |
| QUIZ |
| Compiled by Karen Ann Monsy |
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