Backstreet Boys to headline Saudi Arabia’s Diriyah E-Prix closing concert

US boyband the Backstreet Boys will headline the closing concert at the 2024 Diriyah E-Prix on Jan. 27. (File/AFP)
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Updated 07 January 2024
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Backstreet Boys to headline Saudi Arabia’s Diriyah E-Prix closing concert

DUBAI: US boyband the Backstreet Boys will headline the closing concert at the 2024 Diriyah E-Prix on Jan. 27 alongside Egyptian rock band Cairokee and Dutch DJ Afrojack.

The Backstreet Boys also performed in Saudi Arabia in June 2019 and in May 2023. Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, AJ McLean, and cousins Brian Littrell and Kevin Richardson will take to the stage with a medley of their greatest hits. 

Meanwhile, US rock band OneRepublic will perform on Jan. 26, the first night of the two-day event in Riyadh. Swedish DJ and music producer Alesso and Lebanese pop sensation Nancy Ajram will also perform that day. 

OneRepublic first rose to fame in the mid-2000s, thanks to the hit single “Apologize,” which sold more than 20 million copies, earning a Grammy nomination and helping the band’s debut album “Dreaming Out Loud” sell more than 2 million. More recently, their track “I Ain’t Worried” was featured on the “Top Gun: Maverick” soundtrack.

They have released five studio albums so far, with another on the way, and have reached more than 5 billion streams on Spotify.

This will not be OneRepublic’s first time in the Kingdom. In 2022, they performed at AlUla’s Maraya, the world’s largest mirrored building. 


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

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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.