Dubai Future Accelerators, the project-based co-working initiative of the Dubai Future Foundation, has been named as one of the winners of the international iF Design Award 2022. The iF Design Award is one of the biggest and best established competitions [ … ]
It seems the UAE likes to read. The LiFest organiser Emirates Literature Foundation and its PR agency Four Communications have published an analysis of online and social media data referencing books and reading – and in the UAE there was [ … ]
The 15th edition of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction has been won by Bread on Uncle Milad’s Table, the debut novel by Mohamed Alnaas – the first Libyan author to win the prize, and at 31 the youngest winner [ … ]
As part of its 10-year AED 30 billion Culture and Creative Industries Strategy, Abu Dhabi has plans to develop a regional comic book industry that could “ultimately” compete on the world stage; and step one is the launch of Sandstorm [ … ]
One of the Jameel’s clever ideas has been to find a group of bright young artists, creators and other arts activists and hand over the arts centre’s programming to them for a while. This project – the Youth Takeover – [ … ]
The Sharjah Architecture Triennial has been reconstituted as an official Foundation, under the commendably predictable name Sharjah Architecture Triennial Foundation (aka SATF). The Emiri Decree signed a couple of weeks ago by the Ruler of Sharjah, Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad [ … ]
Fatspatrol – Fathima Mohuiddin – is an artist that magpie has been following for a while now. She lives between Dubai and Toronto (“I’m still going back and forth seasonally, like a migratory bird”) and her practice is rooted in [ … ]
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