This year’s mass wedding ceremony took place at a service organised by the Palestinian Presidency and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and held in the Lebanese fishing town of Rmaile, south of the capital Beirut. Newly-wed 150 Palestinian couples and 50 other Lebanese couples came together in the mass wedding ceremony. The goal is to allow young couples who are financially unable to pay for their own wedding, to celebrate their marriage. The wedding is allways an amazing experience. Never stressful as the organizers took care of most things, making ...

Al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad is known as the estuary of Iraq’s literature. Tens of thousands of books are displayed here in multitudes of titles. The street goes back to the time of the Ottomans in Iraq. It was once called Qishla. In 1932 it was given the name al-Mutanabi, after Iraq’s most famous poet who lived in the 10th Century. Al-Mutanabbi Street boasts many bookstores and is the perfect home for avid book lovers and poets. The street, filled with bookstores and outdoor book stalls and is often referred to ...

The Camel Wrestling Festival is considered a famous sport in which two male Tülü camels wrestle, typically in response to a female camel in heatbeing led before them. This sport is most common in the Aegean region of Turkey , but is also practiced in other parts of the Middle East and South Asia. The events were historically held during mating season.The camels fight by using their necks as leverage to force their opponent to fall down. A camel is declared the winner if his competitor falls to the ground ...

While defining herself as a feminist, Mjalli says that her fight against harassment of women is unconnected to the #MeToo movement. On fabrics of muted colours and on canvas bags from her BabyFist label, she places messages in English and Arabic inside drawings of flowers and other designs. It's only three words on a T-shirt or embroidered on a denim jacket in Palestinian designer Yasmeen Mjalli's collection, but they carry a powerful message: "Not your habibti", or darling. Yasmeen Mjalli, 22 is "BabyFist" label founder. She sees the clothes as ...

Palestine's team pose for a group picture during the 2019 AFC Asian Cup group B football match between Palestine and Jordan at the Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on January 15, 2019. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP

Dating back centuries, Algeria's pyramid tombs are unique relics of an ancient era but a dearth of research has left the Jeddars shrouded in mystery, According to AFP. The 13 monuments, whose square stone bases are topped with angular mounds, are perched on a pair of hills near the city of Tiaret, some 250km southwest of the capital Algiers. Constructed between the fourth and seventh centuries, the tombs are believed by some scholars to have been built as final resting places for Berber royalty - although nobody knows who truly ...

If I hear “Lifting makes you bulky and masculine”, I’ll knock myself out with a 45lbs dumbbell. No, weight training does not make you masculine, if anything, it makes you sexy! I’m tired of infamous juice cleanses, detox teas, waist trainers, and other Insta-famous products to keep a starving size zero. We’re over the Paris Hilton 2000’s era of peaking hip bones, rib cages, Fad diets, and salads,. Thinner is not better, let’s add mass to our glutes, cinch the waist, and tone up our arms.

It’s called Burj Al Babas - truly extraordinary looking and targeting Middle Eastern buyers, although located in Turkey. The idea was to build 732 villas and a shopping centre. The hundreds of faux chateaux being built for wealthy Gulf investors in Turkey’s northern Bolu province to be for royals. The Burj Al Babas project remains unfinished after the developers filed for bankruptcy. The project began in 2014 but soon encountered difficulties as Sarot Group applied for bankruptcy protection. The Sarot Group made the decision to apply for bankruptcy protection after ...

A 43-year-old cat-lover who grew up in Aleppo is one of few who refused to leave Aleppo during the war. Mohammed Alaa al-Jaleel has been an animal lover and especially cats since his childhood. The “Cat Man of Aleppo” has become a famous figure in the city as the number of cats he was taking care of increased rapidly. Regional media outlets started reporting his story until he found someone to help him open a shelter for all the cats and other animals he is taking care of.

Hundreds of fans hit trians to an outback festival celebrating their rock 'n' roll idol Elvis Presley who died in the 1970s. His spirit is still alive and well at Sydney's main station Thursday. People dressed in colourful sequined jumpsuits, blue suede shoes and having used copious amounts of hairspray, lookalikes sang and danced to hits belted out by tribute artists.

Kuwaiti girls are spending more than 12 hours a week learning kajukenbo, a mixed martial art to boost confidence. The sport's name was derived from the various forms of martial arts it includes: Karate (KA), judo and jujitsu (JU), kenpo (KEN) and boxing (BO). Each form teaches techniques that can be used to fend off an attack. More than 120 girls and women between the ages of four and 50 participate in the Kuwait Martial Arts Academy which teaches different kajukenbo classes held in a room with training weapons lining ...