Shorouk Express Cursi is a Spanish adjective that describes something or someone that’s kitsch, corny or cheesy. According to Spain’s Royal Academy, the country’s main Spanish language institution, cursi is an adjective which defines something or someone that may appear elegant or delicate, but is really pretentious or of bad taste. There are similar words…
Shorouk Express Typically Spaniards have two surnames, while in many other countries such as the UK, Canada, the United States and Australia just have one. In fact, all Spanish speaking countries have this practice, with the exception of Argentina. When Spaniards are born, they are assigned both their father’s and their mother’s first surnames, giving…
Shorouk Express Spain is one of the few countries in the world in which women don’t change their surname when they get married. Although in other cultures and countries it’s the done thing for women to take their husband’s surname, in Spain this has never been a legal obligation or custom. In fact, to many…
Shorouk Express Rubiales was banned from all football-related activity for three years in the wake of the kiss on Hermoso as she went up to collect her Women’s World Cup winner’s medal in Sydney in 2023. On Thursday, a court in Madrid found Rubiales guilty of sexual assault over the kiss and fined him €10,800…
Shorouk Express The US embassy in Spain has demanded that Spanish suppliers prove they don’t have diversity and inclusion policies at their companies. Spanish suppliers have been contacted by the embassy in Madrid and asked to sign a document certifying that they do not apply any internal policies on “diversity and inclusion” that could “violate…
Shorouk Express If you’re a foreigner who has been legally living in Spain for a total of 10 years (or two years if you’re from a Latin American country, Andorra, the Philippines, Equatorial Guinea, Portugal or are of Sephardic origin) you can apply for Spanish citizenship via residency. This can be a somewhat complex process…
Shorouk Express The city wants to ban horse-drawn carriages from its streets this year to protect the animals after years of criticism of the trade. The decision to follow in the footsteps of other tourist hotspots such as Rome and Chicago dismayed visitors including Anastasia, a chef who had travelled from Britain. “It’s really nice,…
Shorouk Express The power to say “who shall live and who shall die”. This is how Cameroonian historian and political scientist Achille Mbembe defines “necropolitics”. The term, which Mbembe was the first to explore in depth, is now used to describe, among other things, the actions of governments at war, or migration policies, particularly in…
BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 21. Spanish GROINN agricultural producer goals to implement its cutting-edge applied sciences in Kazakhstan, a supply on the firm informed Pattern. “GROINN is dedicated to introducing its superior expertise in Kazakhstan to revolutionize agricultural efficiency, scale back operational prices for farmers, and enhance agricultural exports. This initiative not solely empowers native producers…
