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Youth festival aims to promote cross-cultural interaction

ISLAMABAD: The ‘FATA and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Youth Cultural Festival’ was held on Wednesday in the federal capital. The event was organsied by Community Appraisal and Motivation Programme (CAMP), a NGO aiming at promoting cross [...]

Posted On : Mar, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Youth culture movies: how soon is too soon?

No British youth subculture worth its drugs has gone unnoticed by film-makers, but the 90s rave culture has proved notoriously difficult to pin down with any degree of artistic or box-office success. There was much to enjoy in 1999's [...]

Posted On : Aug, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Homage to Spielberg, 1970s youth culture

JJ Abrams made his reputation with TV's Lost, whose early appeal rested on the threat posed by an unseen enemy. He does the same thing in Super 8, but sitting on his shoulder all the way through is producer Steven Spielberg, whom Abra [...]

Posted On : Jun, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Indian schools begin annual youth festival

The Indian high schools in Qatar are all set to compete with one another in an art and culture competition that opened yesterday. The inaugural, six-day Inter Indian School Youth Festival opened with a simple ceremony at the Birla Public Sc [...]

Posted On : Dec, 13 2008 | Comments : 0

Youths to join trek on connecting cultures

THIS week two men from Qatar, Mohamed Abdulaziz al-Delaimi and Abdulrahman al-Abduljabbar, will set off to Oman to join a tough five-day trek into the mountains around Jebel Al Akhdar, Oman’s highest peak. They will be part of a grou [...]

Posted On : Apr, 01 2008 | Comments : 0

The Elixir of Youth and Beauty

Ancient people performed beauty rituals which seem curious or even downright barbaric to us in the 21st century. We are horrified by accounts of foot binding and ritual scarring. We never think of what future generations might make of our o [...]