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‘Discover Al-Khobar’ Chronicles Urban Renaissance in Eastern Saudi Arabia

“Discover Al-Khobar” exhibition, which seeks to highlight the aesthetic charm of this coastal city, received over 344 photographs from 172 photographers (Asharq Al-Awsat)
“Discover Al-Khobar” exhibition, which seeks to highlight the aesthetic charm of this coastal city, received over 344 photographs from 172 photographers (Asharq Al-Awsat)
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‘Discover Al-Khobar’ Chronicles Urban Renaissance in Eastern Saudi Arabia

“Discover Al-Khobar” exhibition, which seeks to highlight the aesthetic charm of this coastal city, received over 344 photographs from 172 photographers (Asharq Al-Awsat)
“Discover Al-Khobar” exhibition, which seeks to highlight the aesthetic charm of this coastal city, received over 344 photographs from 172 photographers (Asharq Al-Awsat)

The urban development movement in the eastern region of Saudi Arabia continues to thrive, with a growing momentum of activity in the city of Al-Khobar, known as the “Pearl of the Gulf.” This city flourishes with unique buildings and expansive green spaces, all along one of the most beautiful shores of the Arabian Gulf.

This picturesque city has captured the attention of a group of photographers who aim to document its landmarks through a diverse range of photographs showcased in the “Discover Al-Khobar” exhibition.

The exhibition is currently taking place at the municipal headquarters of the city, highlighting the modern face of Al-Khobar.

The exhibition, seeking to highlight the aesthetic charm of this enchanting coastal city and the vibrancy of its daily life, received over 344 photographs from 172 photographers.

Among these submissions, a committee of judges selected 45 images for participation.

Furthermore, three winning pieces were chosen for recognition during the exhibition’s opening ceremony held on Sunday evening.

The event was inaugurated by the Mayor of Al-Khobar Province, Eng. Mishal bin Hamidi Al Wahbi, under the patronage of Princess Abeer bint Faisal bin Turki, the President of the Eastern Region Council for Corporate Social Responsibility.

Yousef Al-Harbi, the Director of the Culture and Arts Association in Dammam, clarified in an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat that the association’s members, who are photographers, played an active role in the exhibition.

“Initiating, announcing, and involving all members, participating in judging the submitted works is a role, but in my opinion, the larger role is achieved through active engagement with Al-Khobar Municipality, which organized the exhibition,” Al-Harbi told Asharq Al-Awsat.

“Additionally, working with the Council for Corporate Social Responsibility, introducing the exhibition, guiding and connecting with photographers, contributing to and understanding the exhibition, and these effective initiatives, and encouraging them, are among the most important roles we are working on in community and artistic partnerships with various entities,” he clarified.

“This involves gauging the interests and aspirations of photographers, artists, and recipients alike,” added Al-Harbi.

When asked about the artistic value of this exhibition, Al-Harbi said: “Al-Khobar deserves it, and we consistently present the Eastern Province as a creative city.”

“It is an integral part of creativity, and this dedication to providing the environment and identity is what determines the artistic value of the exhibition,” he added.

Al-Harbi emphasized that the exhibition is not merely a repetition of the conventional image; rather, it delves into the context and time, artistic, sensory, and aesthetic exploration and discovery.

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Scientists Release Plans for an Even Bigger Atom Smasher to Address the Mysteries of Physics

Mike Lamont, director for accelerators and technology, center left, and Fabiola Gianotti, center right, director general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), speak with members of the U.S. House of Representatives in the Large Magnet Facility during a visit to CERN facilities in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, March 21, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
Mike Lamont, director for accelerators and technology, center left, and Fabiola Gianotti, center right, director general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), speak with members of the U.S. House of Representatives in the Large Magnet Facility during a visit to CERN facilities in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, March 21, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
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Scientists Release Plans for an Even Bigger Atom Smasher to Address the Mysteries of Physics

Mike Lamont, director for accelerators and technology, center left, and Fabiola Gianotti, center right, director general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), speak with members of the U.S. House of Representatives in the Large Magnet Facility during a visit to CERN facilities in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, March 21, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
Mike Lamont, director for accelerators and technology, center left, and Fabiola Gianotti, center right, director general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), speak with members of the U.S. House of Representatives in the Large Magnet Facility during a visit to CERN facilities in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, March 21, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Top minds at the world's largest atom smasher have released a blueprint for a much bigger successor that could vastly improve research into the remaining enigmas of physics.

The plans for the Future Circular Collider — a nearly 91-kilometer (56.5-mile) loop along the French-Swiss border and below Lake Geneva — published late Monday put the finishing details on a project roughly a decade in the making at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

The FCC would carry out high-precision experiments in the mid-2040s to study “known physics” in greater detail, then enter a second phase — planned for 2070 — that would conduct high-energy collisions of protons and heavy ions that would “open the door to the unknown,” said Giorgio Chiarelli, a research director at Italy’s National Institute of Nuclear Physics, The AP news reported.

“History of physics tells that when there is more data, the human ingenuity is able to extract more information than originally expected,” Chiarelli, who was not involved in the plans, said in an e-mail.

For roughly a decade, top minds at CERN have been making plans for a successor to the Large Hadron Collider, a network of magnets that accelerate particles through a 27-kilometer (17-mile) underground tunnel and slam them together at velocities approaching the speed of light.

“Ultimately what we would like to do is a collider which will come up with 10 times more energy than what we have today,” said Arnaud Marsollier, a CERN spokesman. “When you have more energy, then you can create particles that are heavier.”

The blueprint lays out the proposed path, environmental impact, scientific ambitions and project cost. Independent experts will take a look before CERN's two dozen member countries decide in 2028 whether to go forward, starting in the mid-2040s at a cost of some 14 billion Swiss francs (about $16 billion).

CERN officials tout the promise of scientific discoveries that could drive innovation in fields like cryogenics, superconducting magnets and vacuum technologies that could benefit humankind.

Outside experts point to the promise of learning more about the Higgs boson, the elusive particle that has been controversially dubbed “the God particle,” which helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang.

Work at the particle collider confirmed in 2013 the existence of the Higgs boson — the central piece in a puzzle known as the standard model that helps explains some fundamental forces in the universe.

“This set of reports represents an important milestone in the process, but a full sense of the likelihood of it being brought to fruition will only be known through careful studies by scientists, engineers and others, including politicians who must make difficult decisions at time when uncertainty rules the day,” Dave Toback, a professor of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M University, said in an e-mail.

The new collider “provides an exciting opportunity for the particle physics community, and indeed all of physics, on the world stage,” said Toback, who was not affiliated with the plans, and who worked for years at the Fermilab Tevatron collider in the United States that was shut down in 2011.

CERN scientists, engineers and partners behind the plans considered at least 100 scenarios for the new collider before coming up with the proposed 91-kilometer circumference at an average depth of 200 meters (656 feet). The tunnel would be about 5 meters (16 feet) in diameter, CERN said.