Popular Bahraini stand-up artist Imran Al Aradi takes comedy quite seriously. His performance arts platform Sometimes Funny just celebrated its first anniversary, and he’s already making plans to establish Bahrain as a comedy base in the region.
Bahraini-owned luxury watch brand Qannati Objet d’Art made a stunning apperance at Cannes Film Festival by donating a one-of-a-kind timepiece for charity in collaboration with Hollywood actress Eva Longoria.
GulfWeekly has launched a new ‘Speak Your Mind’ feature where we invite you, our family of readers, to share your queries on the chosen subject with our panel of mental health experts who will respond to a selection of them.
BAHRAIN-based writer Merlyn D’Souza has released her first novel Unconditional Love at the tender age of 17 years, and is already writing a new book that she plans to publish by the end of the year.
POP singer Normani Kordei Hamilton aka Normani is finally boosting her fans up as she is set to release her long-anticipated debut album Dopamine tomorrow. The album’s release marks nearly five years since her debut single Motivation in August 2019. The singer began teasing the LP (long play) in 2018, revealing on social media that she had the title ready, however, she only announced it alongside the cover in February this year. In a recent interview, Normani acknowledges the sweet time she took to release the creation, and expresses her appreciation of her fans for being patient. The singer also reveals that she spent the past five years revisiting the album ‘four or five times’. “I could’ve put three albums out by now in that duration. I’m not oblivious to that. But I felt like I owed it to myself to be able to take my time, and reinvent, and be experimental.” she said.
APPLE TV+’s Land of Women starring Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria is set to premiere its first two episodes on June 26, followed by four episodes scheduled to air weekly until July 24.
Bahrain Victorious 13 superstar Kat Matthews scored a silver medal at the San Francisco T100 over the weekend despite her last-minute entry into the race, finishing with a time of three hours 41 minutes and 48 seconds over the two-kilometre swim, 80-kilometre bike, and 18-kilometre run, writes Lisa Pringle.
The Canadian Grand Prix last weekend proved to be the perfect example of how topsy-turvy the racing in Formula 1 has been this season, with one of the midfield teams having one of its ‘best’ races so far, and a top team having one of their ‘worst’ drives, writes Naman Arora
TV critic Emily Nussbaum is taking her readers behind the scenes in her upcoming nonfiction titled Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV, releasing June 25.
AWARD-WINNING Afghan director Sahra Mani documents the reality of her country’s women in Bread and Roses, coming to Apple TV+ on June 21, following its Cannes Film Festival debut last year.
