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LAST CHANCE Jumana Emil Abboud: The Storyteller and the Obedient Tide

Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

Jumana Emil Abboud’s first solo exhibition in the Emirates draws on the lineage of Palestinian folktales and their continued resonance in the present – how stories inhabit landscapes, shape personal histories and collective memory, and create an enchanted relationship to [ ... ]

Free

Maktaba: A Speculative Thought Circle – Sound

421 Arts Campus Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi

Maktaba is 421's monthly gathering dedicated to collective reading, viewing, and discussion across disciplines. For its final iteration this season, researcher and sonic practitioner Safeyya Alblooshi will guide the conversation around sound, soundscapes, and interventions within sound cultures; texts shared [ ... ]

Free, but pre-register

Baarah

The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

Final performance of Gautam Goenka's "gripping" adaptation of Reginald Rose's classic courtroom drama film 12 Angry Men, reimagined for contemporary India. In Hindi, with English subtitles.

AED 120

Book Cellar Dubai: Bartleby, the Scrivener

Le Brasserie sur le Boulevard Kempinski The Boulevard, Mohammed Bin Rashid Blvd, Dubai

You can't really go wrong with a classic like Herman Melville's quizzical short story. What exactly is going on here? Of course you could always take refuge in The New York Times summary of "a quintessential New York book" that [ ... ]

Free

Comedy at the Speakeasy

Moon Bar Mina Al Salam, Madinat Jumeriah, Dubai

The Mad Cat team does the rather cool Moon Bar at the Sana Restaurant in Mina Al Salam. The door price includes one drink.

AED 99

Berklee Abu Dhabi’s Jazz Night

Cultural Foundation Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street, Abu Dhabi

The second edition of this "celebration of musical dialogue, artistic collaboration, and contemporary reinterpretation". Headliner is the Syrian singer-songwriter Faia Younan, known for her cinematic sound and poetic approach to Arabic music and her presenting a special set of her [ ... ]

AED 120