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Sites in Conversation

[various Sharjah locations]

A two-day symposium of readings, discussions, and shared meals as part of that unfolds across Sharjah as part of Sharjah Architecture Triennial's DAAS programme. DAAS is Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies, a programme with no fixed curriculum but instead an environment [... more]

Free, but pre-register

CLOSING TODAY Abdelkader Benchamma: Rumors from the Skies

Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

For his third solo exhibition here, the French-Algerian artist has taken inspiration from Kometenbuch (The Comet Book), a 16th-century Flemish treatise depicting comets and fantastical apparitions; Benchamma suggests how astronomy and astrology, science and folklore, continue to overlap in shaping [... more]

Free

CLOSING TODAY Mahmoud El Safadi: Personal Sea

Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

Exhibiting for the first time in Dubai, Lebanese artist Mahmoud El Safadi is showing a collection of miniature paintings on playing cards, a series of works that reflect on the Mediterranean as a site of memory, inheritance, and continuity – [... more]

Free

CLOSING TODAY Sophie-Yen Bretez: The Unsaid Remains Remembered

JD Malat Gallery ACT 2 Tower, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Blvd 13A ,Downtown Dubai, Dubai

A solo exhibition by Paris-based artist Sophie-Yen Bretez for a new body of work that captures moments when one space becomes another, when times overlap, and when memory persists as life shifts forward. This “dramaturgy of passage” is expressed through [... more]

Hussein Nassereddine: You, Only, Inhabit My Years

Alserkal Arts Foundation Common Room Warehouse 51, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

Artist and writer Hussein Nassereddine, the Alserkal Arts Foundation's Fall 2025 resident, presents an afternoon of film and reading around poetics of time, repetition, and the limits of language. He will present his recent video work You, Only, Inhabit My [... more]

Free

Poetry in Action: The Poets’ Quest

Cultural Foundation Qasr al Hosn, Abu Dhabi

A second performance for this time travelling adventure, where poetry saves the world as Blake journeys through time to win back his true love ... The show demonstrates how to master rhyme, rhythm, and imagery while rooting for Blake’s quest [... more]

AED 100

Poetry in Action: Muse It Or Lose It

Cultural Foundation Qasr al Hosn, Abu Dhabi

A second performance for this high-energy exploration of poetry through live performances, linking classic literature with contemporary works and showcasing techniques like metaphor, symbolism, and why words matter — with plenty of laughs along the way. One of a series [... more]

AED 100