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Butheina Kazim is transforming Dubai’s culture with the first arthouse in the Gulf

Anastasiya Varenytsya — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 16:52:15 +0000

“In September 2018, we opened the doors to the first arthouse in the Gulf—and there was an ‘aha’ moment of feeling like we’ve arrived somewhere we were meant to be.” From her early career days working for free-to-air state television, freelancing on the side to produce films such as Letters to Palestine on a “shoe-string

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Going beyond stereotypes of the United Arab Emirates with photographer Alex Atack

root — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 13:32:15 +0000

But, despite this being the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, people are curiously absent from the search results. When they do emerge it’s in highly curated stock photographs—a glamorous blonde gazing from her hotel balcony, a thrill seeker captured mid skydive, or a group of friends playing water volleyball—rendering it almost impossible

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