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Abu Dhabi International Book Fair

ADNEC Abu Dhabi

The 35th edition of the book fair is its most festival-looking yet, with more than 1,400 events in total and six stages for sessions alongside 1,350 exhibitors from 95 countries. The programme also brings together winners of this year’s major [... more]

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CLOSING TODAY Kevork Mourad: The Echoes of Silent Bells

Leila Heller Gallery Dubai

A descendant of Armenian Genocide survivors and raised in Syria, Mourad approaches his work with a profound sense of responsibility to preserve culture and history; his practice aims to give voice to places that no longer exist, offering an interpretation [... more]

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CLOSING TODAY Sultan Bin Fahad: Blue Note

Leila Heller Gallery Dubai

This exhibition by the Saudi artist embraces the experimentation of jazz, commemorating its role as an audiovisual gathering for culture to flourish from and exact its designs on the world as it moved from older models of audiovisual art – [... more]

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Library Circles: Rend Beiruti

Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

Rend Beiruti’s research display, sharing insights into her investigation of the baqala neighbourhood grocery store as a vital urban entity in Dubai, exploring its history, its influence on urban development, and its role as a cultural signal. Through photographs, mapping, [... more]

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House to House: Articulating a Poetics of Translucence

NYUAD Institute Building Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

Shamma Al Bastaki – poet, writer, interdisciplinary artist and NYUAD alumna – discusses her latest poetry collection, House to House. Drawing on memories spanning the 1940s to the 1980s, Shamma traces the infra-ordinary details of daily life along the Dubai [... more]

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