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Big Bad Wolf Book Sale

Dubai Studio City Dubai

The self-styled "World’s Biggest Book Sale” is returning to Sound Stages, Dubai Studio City, from 26 February to 8 March, open daily 10am to midnight with something like two million titles in various genres on sale with prices from AED [ ... ]

Free

Collectors as Patrons: Tracing the Legacy of Art Patronage

Al Safa Art & Design Library Al Safa Park, Jumeriah 3, Dubai

This conversation brings together Dubai Collection patrons Malini Gulrajani and Jafar Dajani in conversation with Hala Khayat to unpack the role collectors play in shaping artistic legacy. The session looks at how patronage evolves across generations, how collections reflect personal [ ... ]

Free, but pre-register

Preservation through Archiving: Sustaining Memory Across Generations

Al Safa Art & Design Library Al Safa Park, Jumeriah 3, Dubai

Adina Hempel, Director of Zayed Institute of Architecture, Heritage, and Arts, and art historian Nada Shabout join Myrna Ayad  to discuss the methods, ethics, and urgency of preservation – how stories are documented, how histories are recorded, and how archiving [ ... ]

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Dubai Bibliophiles: Andy Clark, The Experience Machine

The Coffee Club Times Square Center, 4B Street, Dubai

Anyone who has read Clark’s sweeping but very accessible vision of cognitive science is free to join this Dubai Bibliophiles Book Club meetup. It’s a great choice: the key takeaway – experience itself is a kind of controlled hallucination because [ ... ]

Free

POSTPONED Ramadaniyyat: Naïssam Jalal and Hazem Shaheen

The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

Flutist and vocalist Naïssam Jalal and oud master Hazem Shaheen have been friends and collaborators for nearly 20 years, composing and performing an intimate, meditative repertoire that uses just their two instruments and brings together the classical Arabic tradition of [ ... ]

AED 105