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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260913
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SUMMARY:Abu Dhabi International Book Fair
DESCRIPTION: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 Arabic literary prizes\, musicians\, artists and cultural figures\, with notable sessions on Egyptian singer Nagat Al Saghira\, Egyptian painter Inji Efflatoun\, downtown Cairo’s famed Café Riche\, the Egyptian actor and singer Abdel Halim Hafez\, and the UAE’s use of space diplomacy. \nDon Quixote has been designated Book of the World (a newly intriduced accolade this year)\, the 8th-century scholar Al Khalil ibn Ahmad Al Farahidi is the fair’s Focus Personality\, and the culture of the Balkan region is being celebrated as Guest of Honour.
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/abu-dhabi-international-book-fair/
LOCATION:ADNEC\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Book Fair
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260917
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Kevork Mourad: The Echoes of Silent Bells
DESCRIPTION: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 of what has been lost while seeking ways that history and culture might be recovered\, at least within emotional memory.
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/last-chance-kevork-mourad-the-echoes-of-silent-bells/
LOCATION:Leila Heller Gallery\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260917
DTSTAMP:20260507T102825Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Sultan Bin Fahad: Blue Note
DESCRIPTION: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 – “these musicians’ ancestral mixologies harmonising into an open-ended future\, its rhythm never finished …”
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/last-chance-sultan-bin-fahad-blue-note/
LOCATION:Leila Heller Gallery\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260917
DTSTAMP:20260913T150024Z
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SUMMARY:Library Circles: Rend Beiruti
DESCRIPTION: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\, and archival documents\, the display brings together the findings of this urban investigation and considers the ubiquitous baqala as both an everyday space and a cultural signal. To 11 January.
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/library-circles-rend-beiruti/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260916T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260916T193000
DTSTAMP:20260913T141941Z
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SUMMARY:House to House: Articulating a Poetics of Translucence
DESCRIPTION: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 Creek\, bringing the voices\, values\, and stories of a generation into poetic form. Blending documentary poetics\, archival research\, and text-image practices\, Shamma reflects on her processes of listening\, translating\, and transducing\, as she transformed collective memory into poetry\, drawing\, and collage.
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/house-to-house-articulating-a-poetics-of-translucence/
LOCATION:NYUAD Institute Building\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Talk
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