Islamabad: The historic Qaqlasht festival in Chitral is one of the best places to experience the vibrant culture, music and traditional sporting prowess of the mountain communities of Pakistan’s Hindukush and Karakorum region. This 2,000 years old festival is celebrated by the people of Chitral every April. The four-day Qaqlasht festival (April 12-15), taking place […]

‘The event created an atmosphere of peace and bridged international divides,’ Yunus Emre Institute’s US director says The US branch of Turkey’s Yunus Emre Institute in collaboration with the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) organized an event introducing Turkish cuisine to American students in the US capital Thursday. The students had an opportunity to taste […]

The Cranston Public Library’s Central Branch held its first ever Cambodian culture event Saturday, April 7 to commence National Library Week from April 7 to April 14. More than 60 people were in attendance. The event included a Buddhist blessing, authentic food, and the unveiling of a bilingual book collection. In recent years, the Cambodian […]

Strong, multi-generational ties help the cetaceans make the same migrations year after year The belugas were due to arrive in droves, but Gregory O’Corry-Crowe was nervous. Just a few years into a postdoctoral biology fellowship, O’Corry-Crowe had taken this opportunity in 1998 to fly to remote Somerset Island in the Canadian Arctic with a pair […]

The sweet smell of baklava wafted in the air as gentle Arabic music welcomed Pitt students of different ethnicities and cultures for a Middle Eastern experience. Students wandered the room, chatting with their friends, dipping pita bread into hummus and getting henna tattoos. According to Amani Attia — the coordinator of Arabic Language program — […]

Patient safety is part of the patient experience promise clinicians make. Clinicians must integrate the patient into the care team to deliver on that promise. When a patient visits a hospital, she has the expectation that she will be treated with empathy, respect, and clinical excellence. At the core of each of these elements is […]

I’ve noticed a weird pattern, in fiction and life, about sexual encounters: women decide they’re not attracted to a guy they’re nestling with. Limerence is not in the cards. But they go ahead and have sex anyhow. First, we have college student Margot in the New Yorker’s much-discussed short fictional story Cat Person who recoils as she watches […]

Mark Zuckerberg would likely see little resemblance between Facebook and Royal Dutch Shell. But in one key respect, the social network and the oil giant are similar—and that similarity may be a source of Facebook’s current woes. Like Shell, Facebook is full of engineers, mainly introverted men who tend to make decisions based on emotionless […]

Saudi Arabia’s first female director, Haifaa al-Mansour will be on the board of directors as well. Al-Mansour’s work is renowned in the kingdom where she has been very outspoken about the importance of culture. (AFP) Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Culture and Information, Dr. Awwad bin Saleh Al-Awwad, has appointed a new board of directors for […]

Scientific research is increasingly revealing that whales form highly complex societies that are comparable, in many ways, to our own. Now, a new study of beluga whales conducted by an international team of researchers has demonstrated that the animals value culture, ancestral roots and family ties just as much as humans do. The scientists found that related […]