Book Launch: Everyday Life in the Spectacular City – Making Home in Dubai

The Jameel is running a third season of Night School, a seminar programme where UAE residents can discuss urbanism and history in Dubai. Under this season’s theme, There You Are, participants will assess how much we can know about a place just by taking a good look around. The seminar itself is fully booked, but there are three public events in Art Jameel’s lobby; this is one of them.

Dr Rana AlMutawa from NYUAD introduces her new book in a discussion with Neha Vora sbout how scholars develop honed senses of sight and hearing. The book shows how Dubai’s inhabitants adapt themselves to top-down development projects, from big malls to megaprojects, to find “a more nuanced story of belonging”, and sounds genuinely fascinating.