Including Fine Jewellery, Watches, Modern & Contemporary Arab, Iranian, Indian & Pakistani Art Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 March 2008 The Royal Mirage Hotel, Dubai
Bonhams is pleased to announce its first sale to be held in the Middle East.
Bonhams Dubai will provide access to the global art market for a new generation of collectors, dealers [...]

Iraq’s Oil Ministry Sunday stopped auctioning its Kirkuk oil and began selling term contracts as production from the north has increased.
“The auction system is no longer in effect after Iraqi oil exports from Kirkuk oilfields have stabilized,” Assem Jihad, spokesman for the Oil Ministry, told the Voices of Iraq news agency.

The government has postponed the auction of Lebanon’s two cellular companies from February 22 to May 1 to await the creation of a national unity government, an official said on Monday. “The government decided to delay the auction for few months to determine if a broader cabinet will be formed,” Ziad Hayek, the president of [...]

Bonhams, the international fine art auction house established in the UK since 1793, will hold its first Middle East auction sale in Dubai. The auction will be held March 2 to 4 at Dubai’s Royal Mirage Hotel. Featuring some works from some of the biggest names in modern and contemporary Arab, Iranian, Indian and Pakistani [...]

The five-digit car number plate 11111 will go under the hammer on January 12 in Abu Dhabi, Lt-Col. Abdul Rahman Al Kamali, Director of Privatisation and Financial Investments Department in Abu Dhabi Police announced yesterday.
Also on auction will be numbers 55555 and 77777.
Lt-Col. Al Kamali said arrangements had already being made with the company tasked [...]

Children at the Disabled Children Association (DCA) will show their talents in painting and handicrafts for the sixth year in a row during the “Color Their Lives” auction and bazaar, taking place at Lailaty Hall in Jeddah on Monday.
The disabled children used their abilities to draw. Some of them drew their pictures using their feet [...]

A Tel Aviv, Israel, auction house has sold two yellow badges that were used to identify Jews during the Nazi era.
The items, Star of David-shaped yellow badges marked with the word “Jew,” were among 1,344 items sold Sunday at the Ben Ami Anders Auction House in Tel Aviv, Ynetnews reported Monday.
A representative of the auction [...]