0927 GMT January 19, 2020
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Mamadou Boye Diallo, an art curator with a penchant for heart-shaped glasses, calls Dakar's working-class Medina neighborhood an open-air museum.
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Art & Culture Desk
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Mauritania’s Ministry of Education is introducing the Persian language into the curriculum of the University of Nouakchott Al Aasriya as of next semester as per an agreement with its Iranian counterpart.
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Art & Culture Desk
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An archeologist uncovered what he believed to be the remains of a Roman massacre of Britons in Dorset, describing it as his “most dramatic find”.
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A rare coin featuring Britain’s King Edward VIII, who abdicated to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson, sold for a record £1 million ($1.3 million).
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A painting found hidden in an Italian gallery in December is an authentic Gustav Klimt piece stolen almost 23 years ago, experts confirmed.
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Iranian feature film, ‘Domino,’ directed by Laleh Barzegar, will take part in the 2020 Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival in Germany, slated for January 20-26.
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A stolen 15th-century book by the famed Persian poet Hafez was recovered by a Dutch art detective after years that Iranian authorities had also been on the hunt for it.
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In the eighth century BC, Assyrian King Sargon II ruled over a wealthy and powerful empire that included much of today’s Middle East and inspired fear among its neighbors. Now a team of Italian and Iraqi Kurdish archeologists working in northern Iraq have uncovered ten stone reliefs that adorned a sophisticated canal system dug into bedrock.
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