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- ‘Invisible Fish’ by Saif Azzuz
The first solo present of Libyan Yurok artist Saif Azzuz will open subsequent week at Lawrie Shabibi in Dubai. Titled “Invisible Fish,” the exhibition works in quite a lot of media created by the San Francisco-based artist, together with portray, sculpture, works on paper and transferring pictures, charting the ecological and cultural historical past of the Middle East area earlier than its current city improvement.
Azzuz’s work, punctuated by dreamy swathes of coloration utilized via gestural brushstrokes on canvas, explores the land and water as vibrant, lived ecosystems quite than their usually present standing as extractive sources. The works on present immediate the viewer to view the fantastic thing about marine environments as websites of ecological interdependence and reminiscence.
Date: Jan. 17 to April 3
Location: Lawrie Shabibi, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai
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- Emirates Airline Literature Festival returns for 18th version
Dubai’s acclaimed Emirates Airline Literature Festival is returning on the finish of this month with quite a lot of partaking conversations, e-book launches, unforgettable tales and actions for all ages.
Some highlights to not miss this 12 months embrace the speak “The Science of Love and Happiness” on Sunday, Jan. 23, from 7 p.m. to eight p.m., the place LSE behavioural psychologist Paul Dolan will discover how love and happiness intertwine and the science behind residing life. There’s additionally “A Taste of India” with Asma Khan, an occasion throughout which the globally acclaimed chef and Netflix Chef’s Table star takes friends on a six-course meal journey on Jan. 24, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. And there will probably be a dialog with Palestinian photo-journalist Plestia Alaqad on her debut e-book, “The Eyes of Gaza,” born from her lived expertise in Gaza throughout a time of unprecedented violence and agony, on Jan. 25, from 2 p.m. to three p.m.
Date: Jan. 21 to 27
Location: Dubai Festival City, Dubai
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- ‘Remnants’ by Kais Salman
New works by summary expressionist Syrian painter Kais Salman are on view ranging from subsequent week within the artist’s solo exhibition titled “Remnants” at Ayyam Gallery. Salman, who makes use of his portray as a software for social commentary, explores reminiscence and loss in these newest works. Highlighting fragmented imagery, the figures on his canvases emerge after which disappear throughout the layers of paint. His works poignantly categorical the thought of remnants, ruins and what’s left behind from historical past.
Date: Jan. 17 to March 18
Location: Ayyam Gallery, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai
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4. Book of the week: ‘Lessons from Life’
“Lessons from Life,” the most recent e-book from his Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum — vp, prime minister and ruler of Dubai — will probably be showcased on the upcoming Emirates Airline Festival of Literature on the finish of this month. The e-book shares knowledge from his many years of management and focuses on how you can flip challenges into alternatives, innovation and resilience. The e-book additionally charts his private success via reflections on his life and experiences in Dubai and the United Arab Emirates.
A view of the 2025 Sharjah African Literature Festival on the University of Sharjah. (Courtesy of Sharjah Book Authority)
Sharjah will host the second version of the Sharjah Festival of African Literature subsequent week. Running from Jan. 14 to Jan. 18 on the University City of Sharjah, the competition is organized by the Sharjah Book Authority and presents a sequence of panel discussions, e-book readings and extra that discover African literature from the previous and current.
- Since 2008, the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature has hosted over 2,000 authors from greater than 100 international locations.
- In 2009, the competition hosted 65 authors, and in 2026 it would host over 200 authors.
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