Meghan Markle chats with Malala Yousafzai

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Updated 12 October 2020
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Meghan Markle chats with Malala Yousafzai

DUBAI: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry joined forces with Malala Yousafzai this week to celebrate International Day of the Girl.

The pair took part in a live video chat with the Pakistani activist to discuss “the barriers preventing 130 million girls from going to school and why it’s essential that we champion every girl's right to learn.”

“When young girls have access to education everyone wins and everyone succeeds,” Markle said during the live chat. “It just opens the door for societal success at the highest level.

“It’s not just robbing a society of the cultural richness that comes with educating young girls,” she continued, “It’s also robbing these young girls of childhood.”


Highlights from Saher Nassar’s ‘Chronicles from the Storm’ exhibition in Dubai

Updated 27 February 2026
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Highlights from Saher Nassar’s ‘Chronicles from the Storm’ exhibition in Dubai

DUBAI: Here are three highlights from Saher Nassar’s ‘Chronicles from the Storm,’ which runs until March 18 at Zawyeh Gallery in Dubai.

‘Chronicles No. 1’

In his latest solo exhibition, the Palestinian artist “reimagines events that push past emotional capacity toward moral exhaustion, questioning the ethical certainty of the human spirit when faced with immense suffering,” according to the show catalogue, with works that “contemplate the devaluation of hope as a fundamental factor of human survival, sometimes revealed as currency for escape, sometimes seen in people resorting to their primal instincts to endure.”

‘Chronicles No. 8’

“Drawing from both personal and collective experiences, the exhibition unfolds as a layered reflection on how repeated trauma reshapes perception, belief, and the instinct to survive,” a press release for the show states. “Nasser translates lived realities into visual studies that move beyond immediate reaction. Rather than seeking resolution or catharsis, the works dwell in a state of moral exhaustion.”

‘Chronicles No. 3’

In “Chronicles from the Storm,” the UAE-based multidisciplinary artist is not attempting to offer answers, the press release suggests; rather, he is “bearing witness” and “inviting viewers to sit with unresolved questions and the uneasy persistence of the human spirit in the aftermath of the storm.” The works on show “carry a restrained intensity, resisting spectacle in favor of contemplation,” the release continues.