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Dhahran Rugby Union Football Club (DRUFC): An Unofficial History 1973 to 1989 - Part 5
It is only when you travel a lot that you realise how small the world is, and when Martin moved to live and work on the Dhahran air base for British Aircraft Corporation (BAC, later to become BAE) in the English Language Wing, he did not at first think there was any likelihood of a sporting and social side to life in Saudi. That was until he caught sight of Bill Flynn (Part 4) driving to the base from Al-Khobar town. They had known each other in Uganda.
AramcoWorld Reading Selections - December 11, 2019
From the Babylonian clay tablet of 600 BCE to Katip Çelebi’s map of Japan drawn in 1732, geographers and cartographers of the Islamic world drew upon Greek, Babylonian, Syriac, Sassanian, Indian, Chinese, Turkic and European knowledge to produce a new, atlas-like genre of detailed maps of the world known to them.
AramcoWorld Reading Selections - Septembert 15, 2021
Custom designed to travel up and down the daunting slopes of the mountains that separate Beirut and Damascus, the railroad linking what are now the capitals of Lebanon and Syria was a world-class engineering feat of the late 19th century.
AramcoWorld Reading Selections - July 6, 2023
Since 2012 Hatem Belyamani, Moroccan native and New York resident, has focaused his nonprofit, Remix-Culture, on digital sampling and remixing tools that draw from traditional music around the world.
AramcoWorld Reading Selections - December 20, 2023
For more than 40 years, British photographer Peter Sanders has documented communities across the Islamic world. Sanders discusses his legacy with us, including his inspiration and influences over the course of his career.
AramcoWorld Reading Selections - October 16, 2019
It was a Cairo composer who produced the world’s first electronic remix 75 years ago. Today, EDM fans and DJs from across the globe are gathering on the shores of the Red Sea at the annual Sandbox Festival.
AramcoWorld Reading Selections - October 03, 2019
A marvel of ultramodern architecture and engineering inspired by a simple arrangement of stones, The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, or Ithra, is one of Saudi Arabia’s newest sources of energy—creativity, culture and knowledge.
AramcoWorld Reading Selections - September 5, 2018
The event was the second edition of Saudi Film Days, sponsored by Ithra, the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, in collaboration with the Saudi Films Festival. Each screening included a panel discussion with Saudi and us film directors. Here are the highlights.
AramcoWorld Reading Selections - March 21, 2018
Often considered poor man’s food because it is cheap and filling, kushari (koo-shar-ee) showcases the simple flavors of Egypt, making it popular among children and world travelers alike.
AramcoWorld Reading Selections - February 15, 2023
Photography “speaks directly to your emotions,” says Joumana El Zein Khoury, executive director of World Press Photo, which holds the world’s leading contest for news and documentary photography. Since she joined in 2021, she has organized six global partnerships to “be our guides” and diversify the images and themes that earn annual awards for top visual storytelling. And she isn’t a photographer.
Thomas Lee Watson
Thomas Lee Watson, 74, of Tomball, passed away August 18th, 2022. Tom was born on July 13, 1948, in Ohio to the late Virgil H. Watson and Merle Elizabeth (Bettie Niland) Watson. Tom is survived by his, wife of 51 years, Susan Watson and sons, Jonathan H. Watson and Jeremy T. Watson.
Charles E. Adams
Charles E. (Chuck) Adams passed away the morning of March 25, 2012 with Marianne and family nearby. He will be interred in Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver, Colorado. With friends scattered around the world, a virtual memorial will be held in his memory.
AramcoWorld Reading Selections - January 20, 2021
Built in 1884 to represent Mexico at the World Cotton and Industry Centennial Exhibition held in New Orleans, US, the Kiosk of Santa Maria la Ribera was called at the time “The Mexican Alhambra.” Now standing in a park in Mexico City, it inspired the construction of more than a dozen smaller neo-Arabic kioscos throughout Mexico.
AramcoWorld Reading Selections - February 03, 2021
The series Spice Migrations opens in Sri Lanka with one of the world’s favorite spices, which once grew exclusively on that island. Traders priced cinnamon like gold, and those who could get it used it for health as much as for flavor. A storm, and a Portuguese fleet, changed everything.
AramcoWorld Reading Selections - August 18, 2021
At the end of the 19th century, the East African archipelago of Zanzibar was the capital of cloves. Ninety percent of the world’s cloves grew there. People used cloves for numbing a toothache, seasoning a biryani or pulao rice dish or even for stringing into an ornamental, aromatic necklace.
AramcoWorld Reading Selections - August 31, 2022
More than 100 new events sponsored by more than two dozen arts organizations now offer opportunities for Saudi artists and international creatives across a country that has emerged as one of the world's fastest growing centers of contemporary art.
AramcoWorld Reading Selections - April 26, 2023
From the peak of Cerro Pachón in Chile, the 8.4-meter-wide telescope of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to start scanning the skies this summer. Equipped with the world’s largest digital camera, it will capture images with an unprecedented resolution of 3.2 gigapixels.
AramcoWorld Reading Selections - August 16, 2023
Visits to Spain in 1922 and 1936 led Dutch artist M.C. Escher to discover the world of designs in Granada’s 13th-century Alhambra palace, where interlocking patterns in tiles and stucco on its walls and ceilings became springboards to ideas that shaped his art for the rest of his life.
AramcoWorld Reading Selections - September 14, 2023
Celebrated as one of Egypt’s most influential women in fashion and design, Azza Fahmy has creations that translate the MENA region’s culture, art and historical references to the world through contemporary jewelry, capturing the attention of cultural buffs and fashionistas alike.