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💥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Sheffield Doc/Fest,Culture,Festivals,Syria,Middle East and north Africa,World news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen Wafaa Mostafa was a child, she remembers her father playing Umm Kulthum’s music non-stop at home in Syria, harmonizing with the notes of the legendary Egyptian singer. One day, in an attempt to encourage his daughter to appreciate music, he asked her to take a pen and paper and write down the lyrics to a song she liked. Wanting to impress him, Mustafa chose a song by Umm Kulthum called “Aghrd Al-Qaq,” which translates…

🚀 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Olivia Rodrigo,Music,Pop and rock,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WWith a certain overwhelming inevitability, the arrival of Olivia Rodrigo's third album was accompanied by a lot of deciphering its lyrics in search of references to Louis Partridge, the British actor whose relationship with the singer ended late last year. A magazine published a 1,200-word article, complete with captions, analyzing her songs for nuggets of gossip: the fourth piece she's published on the subject in recent months. A British newspaper published a news story about the fact that Rodrigo…

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Women's prize for nonfiction,Taliban,Books,Culture,Afghanistan,History books ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: toYessi Doucet first walked into the InterContinental Hotel in Kabul on Christmas Day 1988, as Soviet forces were withdrawing from Afghanistan at the end of a decade-long occupation. She expected to stay for a short time. Instead, she stayed for about a year, and the hotel became her first Afghan home.More than three decades later, it became the subject of her first book, The Best Hotel in Kabul, which has now won the Women's Prize for Nonfiction. But…

💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: David Hockney,Art,Photography,Art and design,Culture,Yorkshire,Painting,Bradford,UK news,Los Angeles,Sexuality,Society,Polaroid,Older people,iPad,Tablet computers,Technology ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: David Hockney, the famous British painter who cast a revolutionary outlook on twentieth-century art, has died at the age of 88.He made his name as a Pop artist during the 1960s and is perhaps best known for his paintings of swimming pools that helped define the Los Angeles aesthetic. Works such as A Greater Splash and Portrait of the Artist (A Pool with Two Figures) depict hedonistic scenes of love, lust and loss that…

🔥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Lena Dunham,Television,Television & radio 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I've been with my partner Martin for 10 years, and he always tells me he doesn't want to get married. He believes that the institution of marriage is a way for the state to control us. He also believes that marriage is inherently patriarchal – and frankly, I can't argue with him about any of this.But the truth is, I've been planning my entire wedding day in my mind since I was seven years old. When I was a…