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Festival

Anticipating LitFest

We’ve been browsing the newly released schedule for the upcoming Emirates Airlines Festival of Literature, and as always there are some major attractions. First impressions: the Arabic programme looks great, broader than in past years. There’s a lot of accessible [ … ]

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Small but perfectly formed: SFP is back

Sharjah Film Platform is back, spotlighting independent cinema, documentary filmmaking and moving image works that play on new approaches to film and art. The fifth edition of Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual film festival isn’t overcrowded; small but perfectly formed just [ … ]

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Architecture

Sharjah Architecture Triennial gets formalised

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 [ … ]

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LitFest reports record results for 2022

The 14th Emirates Airline Festival of Literature held in February certainly demonstrated how quickly it was able to recover from the effects of the pandemic: more than 105,000 people attended the Festival, either in person or through the online sessions, [ … ]

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LitFest tickets back on sale

Tickets are now back on sale for Dubai’s annual literary extravaganza, the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, after being taken offline for programme tweaks to accommodate the changes to the federal working week. The Festival, which runs 3-13 February mostly [ … ]