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Individual and group classes on Eastern and Western instruments, plus opera singing, for anyone over fourteen. Three new teachers, among them a qanun player and a Kuwaiti soprano.
Public Works has brought part of the structure into use after twelve years of standstill. Which two are running now, what is still closed, and why there is no announced completion date.
A 20-dinar ticket becomes 75 if you let it sit. The window, the numbers, how to check and pay, and the warning which stops you paying twice.
Start on the ministry portal rather than at the clinic door. Seven documents, a class list that begins at kindergarten, and one centre listed with two contradictory times on the same day.
The airline named the destination, the start date and when booking opens. Frequency and aircraft type are still unannounced. What to sort out before you book: the visa, the digital arrival card, and the season.
Staff return on 6 September and pupils arrive in three waves. Mid-year break, exam windows, the start of summer, and the last week of Ramadan now an official holiday.
An ice rink, a snow games hall, a Roman-style theatre and an open-air screen across 243,000 square metres. The numbers, and what changes on the ground.
The Foreign Office no longer advises against all but essential journeys. The real effect is in insurance policies and corporate trip approvals, not tourism.
A ministerial decision in force since 17 August links entitlement to the person rather than the loan, and deducts quantities already taken when a house is demolished and rebuilt.
The mall has been shut since January, with the fish market and the marina excluded from the eviction. What is being built there, and why no opening date exists.
A ministerial decision sets an upper limit on platform commission and on the fee a customer pays, and 250 companies have objected. Plus the rights a digital buyer now has.
The interior ministry stops rolling these over from 1 September. Anyone who left before the end of August keeps the exception; after that, the normal count applies.
