In 2005, Sudanese-British entrepreneur Mohammed “Mo” Ibrahim sold the mobile phone company, Celtel, that he’d built from scratch into a business with 24 million subscribers in 14 African countries —
EVENT CATEGORIES Art Galas Dance Music Discussions Showcases Festivals Theater ART April 5 to 26 Breaking Boundaries This new group exhibition showcases genre-defying abstract installations, sculptures and painting
Languages Czech Icelandic Polish English Japanese Portuguese German Korean Spanish Hungarian Mandarin Czech Golden Sting Directed by Radim Špaček (Czech Republic/Slovakia, 2018, 106 min.) Young lawyer and athlete Franta
The canvas serves as the art itself, stretching and pulsing outward in surprising shapes, lines and textures in a remarkable new exhibition highlighting the work of a relatively unknown but
After eight years of a brutal and still unfinished conflict, around half of Syria’s population are currently living as displaced persons — making them one of the largest post-World War
A groundbreaking new study holds heartening news for older Americans. Since the mid-1990s, the number of seniors who suffered a heart attack or died from one dropped dramatically — evidence
Spring has finally arrived in the Washington, D.C., area. For residents and visitors, this means blooms, allergens and warmer temperatures, but for homebuyers and sellers, it likely also means an
Cover Story Moldova's Fragile Democracy Tested by Geopolitics, Corruption Moldovan Ambassador Cristina Balan is proud of the recent economic strides her government has made but concerned about the country's future
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It’s not until the end of John Feffer’s one-man show, “Next Stop: North Korea,” that the foreign policy scholar-cum-playwright offers a withering comment on the failed second summit meeting between
Virachai Plasai, ambassador of Thailand to the United States, died on March 16 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., where he was being treated for myelodysplastic syndrome, a type
For those brave at heart and with a penchant for the compelling and morose, Signature’s premiere of “Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity” might be for you.
Armenia Varuzhan Nersesyan became ambassador of Armenia to the United States on Jan. 11, 2019, having previously served as assistant to the Armenian prime minister since April 2018. Ambassador Nersesyan
Washington, D.C., is an inherently hot travel destination (think White House, Smithsonian museums, Shakespeare Theatre). In recent years, it’s shifted from being solely a place of historical and cultural significance
