The Comedy Lab @ Easy Tiger
Mad Cat’s standup team at their regular stop at the Easy Tiger bar in Abu Dhabi’s Al Ain Palace. The door price of AED 99 includes two drinks …
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Al Ain Palace Hotel Corniche Road, Abu Dhabi
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Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial
Calligraphy Square – Sharjah Art Museum SharjahThis 12th edition of the Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial has the theme 'Balance' and features 297 works by 145 artists from around the world. It's always an interesting visit because of the range of styles and techniques on show, covering traditional [... more]
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Club Ocha: the Last Laughs of Summer
Basement, HIVE Jumeriah Village Circle, DubaiA Comedy Kix gig with a strong bill – Imail Abdi, Valentina Danubio, Ahmad Kasidcomedy, Saeed Alnahdy and Enoud Metaweaa. Note that is a non-smoking room, and there’s no FnB – but you can bring your own booze (!) and [... more]
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Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya’s Swahili Coast
NYUAD Institute Building Saadiyat Island, Abu DhabiAndrew Eisenberg, Associate Professor of Music at NYUAD and Head of the Music Program there, combines oral history, ethnography, and musical analysis to explore how musicians in twentieth-century Mombasa used Arab and Indian musical influences to navigate questions of identity, [... more]
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Artist Talks: Moza Al Mazrouei – For Purposes Other than Intended
NYUAD Art Gallery Reading Room أبو ظبي, أبو ظبي, United Arab EmiratesA conversation moderated by Sarah Almehairi exploring Moza Al Mazrouei's artistic practice across sculpture, film, mixed media, writing, and curation. Moving between research and fiction, observation and participation, the discussion touches on authorship, selfhood, and the structures of power that [... more]
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Wednesday Night Impro: Maestro
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe Courtyard’s popular evening of elimination improv. Ten actors converge for a night of scenes, songs and games based on audience suggestions. After each round you score the players on a scale of 1 to 5, and the one with [... more]
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Fellow Travellers
Tabari Artspace Gate Village Level 2, DIFC, DubaiAn exhibition conceived and curated by Prof Omar Kholeif, featuring Sonia Balassanian, Jai Chuhan, Luísa Correia Pereira, Lalitha Lajmi, Irene Scheinmann and Omar Kholeif himself. Developed from nearly two decades of Kholeif’s research, writing and relationships with artists, the exhibition [... more]
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Talal Moualla: The Table of Absence
K Gallery Al Barari, Seventh Heaven, DubaiFor more than five decades, the Syrian artist, poet, and critic Talal Moualla has approached the image not simply as representation, but (says the gallery) “as a form of thought ... Moving between painting, criticism, poetry and research, his practice [... more]
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CLOSING TODAY showCACE
Zayed University DubaiThe projects exhibition for seniors of Zayed University's College of Arts and Creative Enterprises – usually among the best student/grad work you see in the UAE. Covers animation, graphic design, interior design and visual arts.
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Music and Sound Club: Session #3: Contextualising Tape Loops and Music Technology
SAF Photography Gallery Al Manakh, SharjahSharjah Art Foundation’s Music and Sound Club is a series of fortnightly hands-on workshops and meetup sessions form anyone interested in music and sonic arts. Bridging the analogue and the digital, this session encourages you to craft hybrid musical works [... more]
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From Istanbul to Cairo – A Thousand Ways of Being Modern: dir Ilana Navaro (2025)
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesIn conjunction with the NYUAD Art Gallery's current exhibition All Manner of Experiments, the Gallery has organised a special screening of Ilana Navaro's well-regarded documentary exploring how late 19th- and 20th-century artists from the region developed alternative modernities. The film [... more]
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The Amy Winehouse Band
Dubai OperaIt’s 20 years since Back to Black was released, so there’s a reasonable hook for this performance by “the original musicians who performed alongside Amy on stages around the world and helped shape her distinctive sound both live and in [... more]
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The Comedy Lab
Radisson Red Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, DubaiMad Cat Comedy's regular Thursday stop in Silicon Oasis promises "insane laughs every week". The door price of AED 99 includes one drink and popcorn.
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Al Sidr Environmental Film Festival
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThe fifth edition of the Al Sidr Environmental Film Festival, presented with Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi, is themed Mend, or رَمِّم in Arabic. In this context, the word considers environmental restoration, from habitat and species recovery to water stewardship [... more]
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Cineolio’s Cinenights
Alliance Française Dubai Dubai, United Arab EmiratesFounded by Emirati filmmaker and curator Nawaf Al Janahi in 2020, Cineolio‘s mission is focused on promoting short films and expanding their audience reach internationally. Its Cinenights screening series presents a diverse selection of short films on the big screen, [... more]
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Pitch Them Perfect: Pitches + Confessions
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiA week of this interactive live dating comedy show for Dubai Comedy Festival "where we laugh about your worst dates, talk relationships, and give you the chance to pitch your single friends. Help them find true love, and help yourself [... more]
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Naïssam Jalal and Hazem Shaheen
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesA concert with flautist Naïssam Jalal and oudist Hazem Shaheen that brings together modern jazz and the classical Arabic tradition of improvised taqsim. Jalal has a storied career in collaborations across a variety of musical styles, primarily in contemporary jazz [... more]
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Politically Incorrect Comedy
Xandros Singature 1 Hotel, Barsha Heights, DubaiMad Cat Comedy’s regular standup night at Xandros in Signature 1 Hotel, TECOM. The cover charge of AED 80 includes one drink.
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The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club
Radisson DAMAC Hills Hessa Street Dubailand, DubaiYet another strong-looking bill for this month's Laughter Factory tour: Marlon Davis – one of the UK’s rising comedy talents, breezily confident and good at observational comedy George Zach – standup whose credits extend beyond the comedy club circuit to [... more]
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Heritage Symphonic Orchestra: Nagham
Space 42 Arena Al Raha St, Abu DhabiAn evening of Arab music reworked with sweeping orchestral arrangements, celebrating the richness of the region’s musical heritage and blending authenticity with contemporary orchestral performance. The Yemeni Heritage Symphonic Orchestra is conducted by its founder, the Yemeni composer and conductor [... more]
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Ahmed Ahmed & Friends
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiA Dubai Comedy festival gig – Ahmed Ahmed, a co-founder of the groundbreaking Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, will be joined by Brandon Johnson, Sean Fawaz, Barney Rivera and UAE-based comedians Amr El Assal and Noha for what looks like [... more]
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Short + Sweet Comedy Junior Finale
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiThe UAE’s next generation of comedians? Standups aged 12 to 18 compete for the title of Short + Sweet Comedy Junior Champion 2026.
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The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club
Jumeirah Golf Estates DubaiYet another strong-looking bill for this month's Laughter Factory tour: Marlon Davis – one of the UK’s rising comedy talents, breezily confident and good at observational comedy George Zach – standup whose credits extend beyond the comedy club circuit to [... more]
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Pitch Them Perfect: Pitches + Confessions
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiA second run of this interactive live dating comedy show for Dubai Comedy Festival "where we laugh about your worst dates, talk relationships, and give you the chance to pitch your single friends. Help them find true love, and help [... more]
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Joke Hub
Canopy by Hilton Dubai Al Seef Al Seef Street, Umm Hurair 1, DubaiA regular Mad Cat Comedy night – “Dubai’s wildest comedy show on Saturday” at “the first purpose built comedy room in the country”. The cover charge of AED 99 includes two F&B coupons.
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UAE National Orchestra: Abu Dhabi Festival
Etihad Arena Yas Island, Abu DhabiLed by conductor François López-Ferrer, recipient of the 2024 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award, the UAE National Orchestra opens the Abu Dhabi Festival's 2026 season with what looks like a super programme. It kicks off with Franz von Suppé’s Overture [... more]
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The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club
Dukes The Palm Palm Dubai, DubaiThe final gig for this month's Laughter Factory tour. On the bill: Marlon Davis – one of the UK’s rising comedy talents, breezily confident and good at observational comedy George Zach – standup whose credits extend beyond the comedy club [... more]
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Ahmed Ahmed & Friends
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiA second set for Ahmed Ahmed plus Brandon Johnson, Sean Fawaz, Barney Rivera and UAE-based comedians Amr El Assal and Noha. A Dubai Comedy festival gig.
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CLOSING TODAY Hamad Almuzaini: Precarious Beings
Tashkeel Studio and Gallery Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, United Arab Emirates“What is the ultimate goal of a city?” asks architect/artist Hamad Almuzaini: “Governance and the streamlining of lived experience – an impossible task – or something more open, broken, and constantly reinvented?” The exhibition looks at placemaking within the context of [... more]
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CLOSING TODAY Golden Harvest, Lasting Bloom
Andakulova Gallery Unit 18, P4 Level Damac Park Towers, DIFC , Dubai, United Arab EmiratesAn exhibition dedicated to the natural maturity, abundance, and fullness of autumn, including works by Rimma Gagloeva, Javlon Umarbekov, Timur Akhmedov, and Vera Nechaeva. Because each artist approaches the theme of autumn in their own way, discovering a personal language [... more]
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CLOSING TODAY Sara Masinaei: Boundaries and Breaches
Dom Arts Projects Warehouse 40, Al Khayat Avenue, DubaiSara Masinaei’s solo show explores how urban spaces shape memory, movement and lived experience: "through walking, collecting found objects and recording traces of overlooked surfaces, she treats the city’s ground as an active part of how we experience and navigate [... more]
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CLOSING TODAY Heritage and Horizons
Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi Reem Island, Abu DhabiThe AD’Art artist collective with an exhibition celebrating the Sorbonne’s 20th anniversary – new works exploring heritage, knowledge transmission, and cultural dialogue, through "diverse and personal artistic perspectives".
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Star Wars – A New Hope: dir George Lucas (1977)
Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThe original, and possibly the best, of the Star Wars mega-franchise. Written and directed by George Lucas, and featuring one of the most dramatic intros ever, this unmissable adventure introduced a galaxy of cleverly drawn characters – Princess Leia (Carrie [... more]
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A Little Prayer: dir Angus MacLachlan (2023)
Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesA sensitive portrait of an American family and an emotional drama about finding kindred spirits in unexpected places. Bill (David Strathairn, excellent) is a pillar of his Southern community: a business owner, a veteran, and the proud patriarch of an [... more]
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Short + Sweet Comedy Finale
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiWe must've missed the preliminaries, but here we are with what are described as "the best UAE-based comedians together for one hilarious Finale — 60 minutes of fast, fearless and seriously funny comedy". They each get five minutes to win [... more]
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Pitch Them Perfect: Confessions
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiA variant of this interactive live dating comedy show for Dubai Comedy Festival: as the audience arrives, they fill out confession cards with their dating and relationship stories; host Akkaoui reads the confession cards, using the stories to spark jokes, [... more]
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Comedy at the Speakeasy
Moon Bar Mina Al Salam, Madinat Jumeriah, DubaiThe Mad Cat team does the rather cool Moon Bar at the Sana Restaurant in Mina Al Salam – a great venue: quite intimate, few distractions. Featuring surprise drop-ins, fresh material, and “the kind of intimate room where sitting in the [... more]
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Morgan Jay: The Goofy Guy
Etihad Arena Yas Island, Abu DhabiThe 38-year-old comedian and content creator coined the term ‘goofy guy’ to capture his mix of lighthearted crowdwork, musical performance, and playful irreverence. He works hard at the job, though; he obviously takes show preparation seriously, and as a result [... more]
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Mohamed Toukabri: Every-Body-Knows-What-Tomorrow-Brings-And-We-All-Know-What-Happened-Yesterday
Africa Hall Al Manakh, SharjahKnown for his ability to navigate between different worlds – street and stage, hip-hop and postmodernism, personal and political – Mohamed Toukabri has a new solo work where movement becomes both excavation and rebellion. Says SAF: "This piece pulses with [... more]
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Mo Gilligan: The Mo You Know
Dubai OperaMulti-award-winning British comedian Mo Gilligan is stopping off at the Dubai Comedy Festival with his new show, 90 minutes of solid material delivered with characteristic high-energy delivery. He's moved seamlessly from viral one-minute internet sketches to sold-out hour-plus arena shows [... more]
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Pitch Them Perfect: Confessions
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiAn interactive live dating comedy show for Dubai Comedy Festival: as the audience arrives, they fill out confession cards with their dating and relationship stories; host Akkaoui reads the confession cards, using the stories to spark jokes, conversations, and interactions [... more]
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Katherine Ryan
Dubai OperaSharp, bright, quick-witted, award-winning and very funny, especially about her own life. One of the safer bets in this year's Dubai Comedy Festival.
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DCFxPPC Comedy Showcase
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiA week of club standup for Dubai Comedy Festival (DC) at Pepperoni Comedy Club (PPC), mostly featuring familiar faces from the local circuit (and none the worse for that). Tonight Anand Raman hosts Denise, Emaad, Sundeep, and Luca.
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Pitch Them Perfect: Confessions
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiAn interactive live dating comedy show for Dubai Comedy Festival: as the audience arrives, they fill out confession cards with their dating and relationship stories; host Akkaoui reads the confession cards, using the stories to spark jokes, conversations, and interactions [... more]
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Fridge Concert Series 50: That’s Julian | Josh Job
The Fridge Warehouse Warehouse 5, Alserkal Avenue, DubaiThe UAE really is building a good ecosystem of indie bands. Following PeachPuffs last week, the headliners this time are That’s Julian – a four-piece from the UAE who do a kind of West-Coastish indie-folk with top-notch melodies and good [... more]
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The Comedy Lab @ Easy Tiger
Al Ain Palace Hotel Corniche Road, Abu DhabiMad Cat’s standup team at their regular stop at the Easy Tiger bar in Abu Dhabi’s Al Ain Palace. The door price of AED 99 includes two drinks …
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DCFxPPC Comedy Showcase
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiSecond night of a week of club standup for Dubai Comedy Festival (DC) at Pepperoni Comedy Club (PPC), mostly featuring familiar faces from the local circuit (and none the worse for that). Tonight looks particularly good: Imah hosts, the bill [... more]
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CLOSING TODAY Artist Residency Exhibition: Lynn Issa, Yang Lan, Yara Chaalan
Fann à Porter The Workshop, Villa 45, St. 23b, off Al Wasl Road (opposite Box Park), Jumeirah 2, DubaiAn exhibition of the works created by the first cohort of residents from Fann à Porter’s Summer 2026 artist residency in Dubai – Lynn Issa, Yang Lan and Yara Chaalan. Working across sculpture, painting, collage, and charcoal drawings on paper, [... more]
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CLOSING TODAY Fabian Philandrianos and Pascal Navarro: Beyond the Gaze
La Galerie, Alliance Française Dubai Alliance Française Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates"An exhibition exploring the perception and relationship between the viewer and the artwork ... an invitation to discover what may appear when we take the time to look beyond the surface." The two French artists offer a dialogue between the [... more]
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Spices and Wonders: Sailing the Indian Ocean
Louvre Abu Dhabi Saadiyat Island, Abu DhabiThis spectacular exhibition follows a thousand years of maritime history and culture, charting the routes that connected the civilisations of Africa, Asia, and beyond. It documents the evolution of navigation and the techniques that enabled adventurous sailors to explore the [... more]
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