Culture
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Dubai Design Week 2026: What To See Before November 8
From glowing letters to waterfront installations, here is where to spend your culturally ambitious weekend
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Downtown Design 2026 Is Worth a Look And a Few Conversations
Memphis Milano by the entrance, zebra-print toilets further in, and what happens after the stands come down
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Why Should Penguin Great Ideas Be Your Next Bookshop Purchase?
From Orwell on writing to a Russian prince against privilege, a guide to the series making serious ideas surprisingly tempting
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Your Week In Dubai: November 3–9
Design takes over the city, with a neighbourhood exhibition, vintage shopping and coffee inside a flower along the way
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A 3,000-Year-Old Story Told Through Contemporary Art
Inside one of the most powerful works of contemporary Lebanese art, with Muriel Asmar
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Your Week In Dubai: October 27–November 1
New art, a fresh coffee stop and the return of outdoor cinema
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Corners Of the City: Dubai Through the Lens Of Local Photographers
When familiar places take on new meanings, ordinary moments become stories
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There Is Life Before Addis Ababa. And There Is Life After
Ten days in Ethiopia brought a group of Dubai creatives face-to-face with a remarkable music scene and a film collaboration nobody had planned
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Your Week In Dubai: What To Do, October 20–25
A big week for foodies (but not only for them), with new openings, chef collaborations and plenty of reasons to book a table
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What Makes A Place Feel Like Home? Abu Dhabi’s Public Art Biennial Returns
More than 20 artists, two cities and one big question: what does it mean to belong?
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Lebanese Art Is Anything But Boring. We Have Five Works To Prove It
One painting caused a scandal. Another was censored. What else is hiding in Lebanese art? Art curator Muriel Asmar has the answers
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Your Week In Dubai: What To Do, October 13–18
Rare vintage accessories, two very different kinds of horror, a pizza collaboration, and more
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If Contemporary Art Feels Pretentious, Consider This
Here is the thing: you do not have to understand art before you go see it
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Beyond the Talks: What to See at Creative Dialogues Beirut This Weekend
What do rubbish, metal threads and 24 women have in common? Your weekend plans in Beirut, apparently
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Your Guide To Al Serkal Must-See Exhibitions This Autumn, Part 3
The last six exhibitions you need on your Alserkal radar this autumn
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What Do 1,000 Porsches In One Place Look Like?
We will get a chance to find out this November, when Icons of Porsche returns to Dubai
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Your Week In Dubai: What To Do, October 6–11
From an exhibition built around private thoughts to a run that starts painfully early
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How Artists Are Reimagining The Prayer Mat
See how artists turn the prayer mat into something entirely unexpected
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Saudi Arabia’s New Creative Class: Turning Culture Into Business
Meet the designers and studios making clothes, spaces and careers out of cultural curiosity
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Arab Identity, Rethought Through Performance
Untitled 14km and Näss rethink Arab identity from two very different angles