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A TRIUMPHANT SCALE
Spread across ten separate gallery spaces are the works of Africa’s most prominent living artist, El Anatsui.
WORLD-FAMOUS ATHLETES VISIT THE MINI ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIP World-renowned athletes, Ashton Eaton, Stefan Holm and Mike Powell held a meet and greet at the Mini Athletics Championship in Doha Festival City.
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he popular Mini Athletics Championship Competition has come to an end. To create a memorable experience for shoppers and visitors, champions in the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 visited the site and met young athletes who participated in the competition. Meeting and greeting fans at Doha Festival City, two-time Olympic Champion, Ashton Eaton, as well as Gold and Silver Olympic Medal high jumper, Stefan Holm, and two-time track and field World Champion, Mike Powell, engaged with the competing children, encouraging and commending them for their performance.
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rab Museum of Modern Art launched acclaimed Ghanian artist El Anatsui’s first-ever solo exhibition in the Middle East. Entitled “Triumphant Scale”, the exhibition focuses on the triumphant and monumental quality of the artist’s sculptures. Various mediums were used in the exhibition, all showcasing the artist’s 50-year career. A part of this collection is his signature bottle-cap series which started two decades ago as well as wood sculptures and wall reliefs spanning the mid-1970s to the late 1990s; ceramic sculptures of the late 1970s, as well as drawings, prints and books. Included in the exhibit is “Logoligi Logarithm”, a specially created installation that is related to his 2010 work Gli (Wall) which displays an alluring play of light and material that resembles the refraction of sunlight in a mist.
TALKS ON FAMILIES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Doha International Family Institute (DIFI) held a series of seminars in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of the State of Qatar to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
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eld in Paris, the event forms part of the organization’s efforts to support and contribute to family issues at all levels by helping to place the subject at the top of policy makers’ agenda’s around the world. The session began with talks on fertility policies and fertility rates both
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globally and in the Arab world, while the second session highlighted work-family balance and its role in the sustainability of marriage as an institution. The set of sessions concluded with a discussion on marital rehabilitation programmes and their impact on family cohesion.