The UAE recently celebrated a festival called 'Dalma Sailing' on October 27, 2018. Dalma Sailing Festival took place on the coast of Dalma island in the Persian Gulf, located about 40 kilometres off of the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi.

The annual Boujloud Festival, also known as Moroccan Halloween, is a popular exotic rite that includes singing, dancing and masquerading. Dressed in sheepskins and spooky masks, young Moroccans dance through the neglected city streets of Sale north of the kingdom's capital. They are celebrating the carnival of Boujloud (Father of Skins), also known as Belmawne. The rituals are particularly popular in the south of the kingdom. In addition to the skins of the sacrificial animals, the youths sometimes also wear their horns over their heads. Across the neighbourhood, young people ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Instanbul in order to attend a summit on Syrian settlement along with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. During the summit, leader are set to debate Syria crisis, focusing on the situation on the ground, the political process, and ways to harmonize joint efforts to find a lasting solution.

At least 21 people, died and another 35 wounded over a flash flood near Jordan’s Dead Sea, Jordan officials said Saturday. Most of the dead were young pupils and teachers whose bus was swept away during a school outing, Jordanian Civil Defense Directorate said in a statement. Jordanian rescue teams have been searching for the missing, according to the statement. The Jordan Royal Court declared three days of national mourning over the incident. On Thursday, areas in the kingdom were hit by flash flood due to heavy rains -- which ...

Journalists who make it in are tracked and intimidated to leave, and China’s state-of-the-art surveillance system has made it nearly impossible to travel to the locked down province without your every movement recorded and monitored. However, Al Bawaba has acquired a set of photographs that document China’s so-called ‘anti-halal’ campaign and wider efforts to coerce Uyghur, Kazakh and Hui Muslims from practicing their religion. The photos, which were taken and provided by Dr. Joanne Smith Finley, a Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Newcastle University, show mosques surrounded by razor ...

October, which is commonly known as 'Breast Cancer Awareness Month', is an international health campaign organized by main breast cancer charities every year in order to increase awareness of the disease. On the other hand, Arab countries recently started to take part of this month celebrations throughout its charities, and campagins.

Persepolis' Ali Alipour (R) walks by Al-Sadd Xavi Hernandez (L) during the AFC Champions League football match Al-Sadd (Qatar) vs Persepolis FC (Iran) at the Azadi Stadium in the Iranian capital Tehran on October 23, 2018. ATTA KENARE / AFP

A rounded rocky outcrop covered in metallic shacks, Migingo Island rises out of the waters of Lake Victoria like an iron-plated turtle. Nevertheless for over a decade Migingo has been a source of tension between Uganda and Kenya, who have been unable to decide to whom it really belongs. This is Lake Victoria, near Kenya: 500 people live on Migingo Island. Land half the size of a football pitch. The densely-populated island is barely a quarter of a hectare large, its residents crammed into a hodge-podge of corrugated-iron homes. It ...

At least 30 young Palestinians dive deep inside the sea in Gaza Strip. The Kids' ages ranged between 11 and 16. They make up a rare swimming club in the Palestinian enclave, and perhaps its only mixed-sex one. Coach Amjad Tantish said "We lack even the simplest equipment such as goggles and swimsuits. We don't have any funding."

Bloody violence has forced thousands of polling centres to close and stopped millions of people from registering to vote. Almost nine million people are eligible to vote in the ballot, which is more than three years late and largely funded by the international community. Afghanistan's long-delayed legislative election got off to a shaky start October 20, with many polling centres still closed hours after they were supposed to open, as the Taliban issued a new warning it would attack the ballot. Hundreds of Afghan polling centres opened October 21 for ...

For the first time in 40 years women in Tehran were allowed to attend football at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran for the Iran- Bolivia friendly match. The decision was widely welcomed, and praised by Iranian female activists who long advocated the allowing of women to re-enter stadiums since they were banned from attending men's games after the 1979 Islamic Revolution .