Stephen Powell, Executive Culture and Programming Director, Jack Morton UAE and KSA.Since 2018, Saudi Arabia has been engaged in a profound and wide-ranging conversation with itself about its identity and place in the world. Culture has been and continues to be at the forefront of that conversation.
Across art, music, sports, gaming, literature, heritage, crafts, museums and media there is a visceral energy. Having spent eight years in Saudi Arabia as Head of Events for Ithra, Aramco’s Centre for World Culture in Dhahran, I got to witness firsthand the beginnings of the country’s remarkable cultural resurgence.
In common with many countries in the Gulf, the cultural landscape is defined by a top-down approach with significant subsidy and direction from the government about cultura
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