Art season comes back in full swing as we enter September, with Jameel Arts Centre and Tashkeel beginning their autumn programmes this month.
Jameel Arts Centre will present three new exhibitions: a group show featuring pieces from Art Jameel’s collection, a solo presentation of works by Pacita Abad and an archival display that taps into Dubai’s architectural history. Galleries will also be opening new exhibitions towards the third week of September, while The Arts Club Dubai will be running its summer exhibitions until October.
Farther north, Sharjah continues its third iteration of Sharjapan, which brings Japanese culture and the arts closer to the Gulf. The Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual Vantage Point Sharjah photography exhibition opens for its ninth show on September 18, while at the Sharjah Calligraphy Museum, calligrapher Mohammed Mandi will showcase his creations as part of the Luminous Letters exhibition.
In Abu Dhabi, Manarat Al Saadiyat has opened an exciting show brimming with young talent from the Gulf. Titled Khaleejiness, it features 12 photographers who reflect on Khaleeji identity, and its multiplicity and fluidity.
Here's what to add to your calendars.
Dubai
The Arts Club summer exhibitions
The Arts Club Dubai is currently presenting two shows as part of its summer programme: Geometric Bodies and Radical Threads.
The first is displayed on the club’s first-floor landing and showcases pieces tied together by their experimentation with form, such as Shaikha Al Mazrou’s material-bending sculptures and Rana Begum’s geometric works made from reflectors. Other artists taking part in the show include Amba-Sayal Bennett, Dana Awartani, Maryam Hoseini, Fahd Burki and Kamrooz Aram.
On the second and third floors are textile works as part of Radical Threads. These works reconsider preconceptions about decorative art by showcasing pieces that bear political and aesthetic statements.
This includes Jordan Nassar’s Palestinian landscapes that have been hand-embroidered with patterns from Palestinian cross-stitch, and Afghan-Canadian artist Hangama Amiri’s textile installations of Afghan women.
Non-members must make an appointment to see the show by emailing rsvp@theartsclub.ae.
Until Saturday, October 23; The Arts Club Dubai; theartsclub.ae
The Distance from Here
As part of its autumn programme, Jameel Arts Centre is staging a group show that includes works from the collection of Art Jameel, along with loans and new commissions.
The exhibition features 11 artists whose works investigate space and time through their personal experiences, with a particular focus on the body and how it carries language, movement and memory. A series of talks, workshops, tours and film screenings will take place alongside the show throughout its four-month run.
The Distance from Here will present works by Yto Barrada, Hrair Sarkissian, Shilpa Gupta, Sreshta Rit Premnath, Do Ho Suh, Anup Mathew Thomas, Mona Ayyash, Jason Dodge, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, and Hicham Benohoud.
Wednesday, September 8 to Saturday, January 22; Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai; jameelartscentre.org
I Thought the Streets Were Paved with Gold
The first exhibition of the late Filipina artist Pacita Abad in the Middle East and South Asia, I Thought the Streets Were Paved with Gold presents a number of the artist’s major works, including her vibrant trapunto tapestries and many significant paintings.
Abad was born in the Philippines and moved to the US in her twenties, where she produced works reflecting on the immigrant experience in America, as well as social justice issues. During the span of her career, she had more than 40 solo shows and 50 group shows across the world. Abad died in 2004 at the age of 58.
From Wednesday, September 8 to Saturday, January 22; Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai; jameelartscentre.org
Growing Like A Tree: Static In The Air
Curated by photographer and filmmaker Sohrab Hura, Growing Like A Tree: Static In The Air is the second iteration of Ishara Art Foundation’s previous exhibition.
Over the course of five days, from Saturday to Thursday, September 11 to 16, Hura will return to the foundation’s space in Dubai and transform the show, rearranging and adding new works, while accompanied by a sound element. These live interventions can be witnessed by visitors in real-time, giving them a glimpse of exhibition-making as an unfixed form.
The initial show draws together various artists and photographers as a way to build a dialogue on themes of urbanism, collective memory, the environment and the archive. The latest iteration will include works by Aishwarya Arumbakkam, Bunu Dhungana, Farah Mulla, Jaisingh Nageswaran, Katrin Koenning, Kushal Ray, Nida Mehboob, Prantik Basu, Rahee Punyashloka, Raqs Media Collective, Reetu Sattar, Sarker Protick, Sathish Kumar, The Packet and Zainab Mufti.
Saturday, September 11 to Thursday, December 9; Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai; ishara.org
Cairo Illustrated: Stories from Heliopolis at Tashkeel
Tashkeel’s autumn season kicks off with illustrator Nora Zeid’s first solo exhibition. Her black-and-white works depict the dense cityscape of Cairo, highlighting the textures of its bustling streets and the patchwork of signage across its buildings.
“To walk in a busy street of Cairo is to have your senses saturated and overwhelmed … Every inch of the city demands your constant, and undivided attention,” the artist said. Zeid, who earned her degree at the American University of Sharjah, says her practice is fuelled by a desire to reconnect with her home city of Cairo. To create her works, she examines the connections between memory and place.
The illustrator has recently completed Tashkeel’s Critical Practice Programme, where her research investigated regional perceptions and narratives, and how they might be upheld or challenged through illustration, design and psychology. Her style of using bold and dark lines enables her to strip down Cairo’s features to specific and intimately observed forms.
Tuesday, September 14 to Saturday, October 23; Tashkeel, Dubai; tashkeel.org
Thanks a Million by Anthony Akinbola
Nigerian-American artist Anthony Akinbola presents textile paintings that examine the cultural and historical significance of the durag, a cloth cap typically used for African hair. Using the ready-made product as a symbol and a starting point, the artist examines its cultural associations, but also removes it from its quotidian use in order to see it as an object. On view at Carbon 12, the show draws its title from the artist’s own sentiments following the turbulence of the past year.
Akinbola’s textured canvases comprise durag fabric stretched and configured in various ways, at times interlocking various colours across a wooden panel. Depending on his configurations, the durags can appear as dripped paint. Other times, his compositions are quilt-like.
In part, his use of ready-mades also considers consumerism and commodification, particularly of African-American culture and the durag’s role in shaping a certain image of blackness in the US.
Wednesday, September 22 to Thursday, November 4; Carbon 12, Dubai; carbon12.art
Off Centre / On Stage at Jameel Arts Centre
In this exhibition, visitors glimpse an earlier Dubai, before it became a global city of glitz and skyscrapers. Around 60 photographs will be on view, along with documentation from archives and newspapers collected by the show’s curator Todd Reisz over the decades. Reisz has also recently edited a book with Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi about Sharjah’s architectural history.
To be shown for the first time are slides from 1976 to 1979, taken by architects Stephen Finch and Mark Harris during explorations of Dubai’s construction sites. A preview text for the exhibition describes the images are “not commercial, documentary or art photography”, but rather as “visual notes” taken by the architects.
“None of them was taken to be exhibited. Through the eyes of the viewer, their assembly offers a means to investigate the newly planned city,” the statement continues.
Wednesday, September 29 to Saturday, February 19; Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai; jameelartscentre.org
Sharjah
Sharjapan 3 at Sharjah Art Foundation
Now in the third year of its four-year series, Sharjah Art Foundation’s Sharjapan reflects on the role of architecture in shaping our daily lives.
Curated by Yuko Hasegawa, the latest iteration examines how the Japanese architectural tradition often considers the spiritual and environmental aspects of a structure, from its conceptualisation to its creation.
Drawing inspiration from the 13th-century poet Kamo no Chomei, the show includes sculptural models, multimedia installations, drawings and photographs of various architectural projects in Japan.
Until Friday, October 1; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah; sharjahart.org
The Rain Forever Will be Made of Bullets
Borrowing its title from a work by artist Simone Fattal, the exhibition is one of two group shows curated by Sharjah Art Foundation director Hoor Al Qasimi that brings together works from the foundation’s collection.
The Rain Forever Will be Made of Bullets includes works by prominent figures in Arab art, including Fattal, Etel Adnan and Chaouki Choukini, and the highly regarded Pakistani artist Lala Rukh. It reflects on conflicts and wars that have affected the home countries of the artists and how these sociopolitical situations surface in the artworks.
Until Friday, October 1; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah; sharjahart.org
When I Count, There Are Only You …
The second group show curated by Al Qasimi takes a wider view, considering how various radical ideas and perspectives have affected humanity.
The show’s title is drawn from a work by Farideh Lashai, which itself was inspired by Spanish painter Francisco Goya’s The Disasters of War. Lashai’s work, bearing the full title But When I Look, There is Only a Shadow and When I Count There are Only You ..., is a video installation in which the artist has modified an original print and animated the figures to create a disjointed, eerie and memorable moving image.
Other artists in the show include Prajakta Potnis, whose work The Kitchen Debate playfully explores political diplomacy in a staged scene set in a futuristic kitchen. There is also Rasheed Araeen’s I Love it, It Loves I from 1979 to 1983, as well as works by Nari Ward, Iman Issa and Farhad Moshiri, Mandy El-Sayegh and Rabih Mroue.
Until Friday, October 1; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah; sharjahart.org
Luminous Letters by Mohammed Mandi
An international name in calligraphy, Emirati artist and calligrapher Mohammed Mandi will present key works from his oeuvre at Sharjah Calligraphy Museum.
Mandi graduated from the Arabic Calligraphy Improvement School in Cairo in 1977 and continued to train in Turkey under notable Turkish calligrapher Hassan Chalabi. His works include calligraphy designs for the logos of UAE government ministries, as well as the passports of the UAE, Kuwait, Oman and Yemen. Mandi’s designs have also been used for banknotes of the UAE and Bahrain, as well as Syrian pound notes.
Throughout his decades-long career, he has exhibited his work at commercial events and cultural spaces. In 2001, he presented a solo exhibition at the Institut du monde arabe in Paris.
Until Saturday, December 4; Sharjah Calligraphy Museum, Sharjah; sharjahmuseums.ae
Vantage Point Sharjah 9
The foundation’s annual photography initiative returns for its ninth iteration. This year, Vantage Point Sharjah 9 is located in Al Hamriyah Studios, one of the foundation’s off-site venues north of Ajman.
VPS9 will feature almost 200 images across the categories of conceptual, experimental, photojournalism, documentary and staged photography. The foundation received 500 applicants for its open call, announced in June, from which the jury selected 53 photographers from more than 30 countries around the world. For this iteration, the jury consisted of artists Ammar Al Attar, M'hammed Kilito, Sham Enbashi and Alia Al Shamsi.
Since its first presentation in 2013, the initiative has expanded its open call criteria geographically and thematically. In 2019, it began accepting applicants outside the GCC and allowed works across various themes and styles. In 2020, more than 30 photographers from 20 countries were included in the show.
Saturday, September 18 to Saturday, December 18; Al Hamriyah Studios; sharjahart.org
Abu Dhabi
Khaleejiness
Is there such a thing as a Khaleeji identity? A dozen young artists and photographers from the Gulf explore this question in a new show at Abu Dhabi’s Manarat Al Saadiyat.
Held as a collaboration between MAS Photography Studio and Swalif Publishing House, the exhibition features photos, videos and installations that reflect on being Khaleeji, questioning whether it is a fixed state rooted in traditional markers or an ever-changing idea that changes with the times. Drawing from personal experiences, the show offers a complex portrait of a young generation navigating their multifaceted societies and new histories.
Participating artists include Khaldoun Khelaifi, Abdulaziz Abdullah Alhosni, Hajar AlMutairi, Hamad Al Fayhani, Ishaq Madan, Lama Al Jalal, Mahmood Al Zadjali, Shamsa Al Mansoori, Ali Al Hosani, Mariam AlKatheeri, Zayed Alhaddar and Tariq Al Hajri.
Until Thursday, February 10; Manarat Al Saadiyat Exhibition Hall A, Abu Dhabi; manaratalsaadiyat.ae
How being social media savvy can improve your well being
Next time when procastinating online remember that you can save thousands on paying for a personal trainer and a gym membership simply by watching YouTube videos and keeping up with the latest health tips and trends.
As social media apps are becoming more and more consumed by health experts and nutritionists who are using it to awareness and encourage patients to engage in physical activity.
Elizabeth Watson, a personal trainer from Stay Fit gym in Abu Dhabi suggests that “individuals can use social media as a means of keeping fit, there are a lot of great exercises you can do and train from experts at home just by watching videos on YouTube”.
Norlyn Torrena, a clinical nutritionist from Burjeel Hospital advises her clients to be more technologically active “most of my clients are so engaged with their phones that I advise them to download applications that offer health related services”.
Torrena said that “most people believe that dieting and keeping fit is boring”.
However, by using social media apps keeping fit means that people are “modern and are kept up to date with the latest heath tips and trends”.
“It can be a guide to a healthy lifestyle and exercise if used in the correct way, so I really encourage my clients to download health applications” said Mrs Torrena.
People can also connect with each other and exchange “tips and notes, it’s extremely healthy and fun”.
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Cost: A minimum investment of $130,000 for a family of up to four, plus $25,000 in fees.
Criteria: Applicants must have a minimum net worth of $250,000. The process take six to eight weeks, after which the investor must travel to Vanuatu or Hong Kong to take the oath of allegiance. Citizenship and passport are normally provided on the same day.
Benefits: No tax, no restrictions on dual citizenship, no requirement to visit or reside to retain a passport. Visa-free access to 129 countries.
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Herc's Adventures
Developer: Big Ape Productions
Publisher: LucasArts
Console: PlayStation 1 & 5, Sega Saturn
Rating: 4/5
Dust and sand storms compared
Sand storm
- Particle size: Larger, heavier sand grains
- Visibility: Often dramatic with thick "walls" of sand
- Duration: Short-lived, typically localised
- Travel distance: Limited
- Source: Open desert areas with strong winds
Dust storm
- Particle size: Much finer, lightweight particles
- Visibility: Hazy skies but less intense
- Duration: Can linger for days
- Travel distance: Long-range, up to thousands of kilometres
- Source: Can be carried from distant regions
Padmaavat
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Starring: Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Shahid Kapoor, Jim Sarbh
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UAE currency: the story behind the money in your pockets
Jetour T1 specs
Engine: 2-litre turbocharged
Power: 254hp
Torque: 390Nm
Price: From Dh126,000
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Other workplace saving schemes
- The UAE government announced a retirement savings plan for private and free zone sector employees in 2023.
- Dubai’s savings retirement scheme for foreign employees working in the emirate’s government and public sector came into effect in 2022.
- National Bonds unveiled a Golden Pension Scheme in 2022 to help private-sector foreign employees with their financial planning.
- In April 2021, Hayah Insurance unveiled a workplace savings plan to help UAE employees save for their retirement.
- Lunate, an Abu Dhabi-based investment manager, has launched a fund that will allow UAE private companies to offer employees investment returns on end-of-service benefits.
The specs: 2018 Nissan 370Z Nismo
The specs: 2018 Nissan 370Z Nismo
Price, base / as tested: Dh182,178
Engine: 3.7-litre V6
Power: 350hp @ 7,400rpm
Torque: 374Nm @ 5,200rpm
Transmission: Seven-speed automatic
Fuel consumption, combined: 10.5L / 100km
Takreem Awards winners 2021
Corporate Leadership: Carl Bistany (Lebanon)
Cultural Excellence: Hoor Al Qasimi (UAE)
Environmental Development and Sustainability: Bkerzay (Lebanon)
Environmental Development and Sustainability: Raya Ani (Iraq)
Humanitarian and Civic Services: Women’s Programs Association (Lebanon)
Humanitarian and Civic Services: Osamah Al Thini (Libya)
Excellence in Education: World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) (Qatar)
Outstanding Arab Woman: Balghis Badri (Sudan)
Scientific and Technological Achievement: Mohamed Slim Alouini (KSA)
Young Entrepreneur: Omar Itani (Lebanon)
Lifetime Achievement: Suad Al Amiry (Palestine)
THE SPECS
2020 Toyota Corolla Hybrid LE
Engine: 1.8 litre combined with 16-volt electric motors
Transmission: Automatic with manual shifting mode
Power: 121hp
Torque: 142Nm
Price: Dh95,900
MOUNTAINHEAD REVIEW
Starring: Ramy Youssef, Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman
Director: Jesse Armstrong
Rating: 3.5/5
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UAE currency: the story behind the money in your pockets
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The Birkin bag is made by Hermès.
It is named after actress and singer Jane Birkin
Noone from Hermès will go on record to say how much a new Birkin costs, how long one would have to wait to get one, and how many bags are actually made each year.
The specs
Price: From Dh529,000
Engine: 5-litre V8
Transmission: Eight-speed auto
Power: 520hp
Torque: 625Nm
Fuel economy, combined: 12.8L/100km
In numbers: China in Dubai
The number of Chinese people living in Dubai: An estimated 200,000
Number of Chinese people in International City: Almost 50,000
Daily visitors to Dragon Mart in 2018/19: 120,000
Daily visitors to Dragon Mart in 2010: 20,000
Percentage increase in visitors in eight years: 500 per cent
Tightening the screw on rogue recruiters
The UAE overhauled the procedure to recruit housemaids and domestic workers with a law in 2017 to protect low-income labour from being exploited.
Only recruitment companies authorised by the government are permitted as part of Tadbeer, a network of labour ministry-regulated centres.
A contract must be drawn up for domestic workers, the wages and job offer clearly stating the nature of work.
The contract stating the wages, work entailed and accommodation must be sent to the employee in their home country before they depart for the UAE.
The contract will be signed by the employer and employee when the domestic worker arrives in the UAE.
Only recruitment agencies registered with the ministry can undertake recruitment and employment applications for domestic workers.
Penalties for illegal recruitment in the UAE include fines of up to Dh100,000 and imprisonment
But agents not authorised by the government sidestep the law by illegally getting women into the country on visit visas.
Top Hundred overseas picks
London Spirit: Kieron Pollard, Riley Meredith
Welsh Fire: Adam Zampa, David Miller, Naseem Shah
Manchester Originals: Andre Russell, Wanindu Hasaranga, Sean Abbott
Northern Superchargers: Dwayne Bravo, Wahab Riaz
Oval Invincibles: Sunil Narine, Rilee Rossouw
Trent Rockets: Colin Munro
Birmingham Phoenix: Matthew Wade, Kane Richardson
Southern Brave: Quinton de Kock
Pharaoh's curse
British aristocrat Lord Carnarvon, who funded the expedition to find the Tutankhamun tomb, died in a Cairo hotel four months after the crypt was opened.
He had been in poor health for many years after a car crash, and a mosquito bite made worse by a shaving cut led to blood poisoning and pneumonia.
Reports at the time said Lord Carnarvon suffered from “pain as the inflammation affected the nasal passages and eyes”.
Decades later, scientists contended he had died of aspergillosis after inhaling spores of the fungus aspergillus in the tomb, which can lie dormant for months. The fact several others who entered were also found dead withiin a short time led to the myth of the curse.
F1 2020 calendar
March 15 - Australia, Melbourne; March 22 - Bahrain, Sakhir; April 5 - Vietnam, Hanoi; April 19 - China, Shanghai; May 3 - Netherlands, Zandvoort; May 20 - Spain, Barcelona; May 24 - Monaco, Monaco; June 7 - Azerbaijan, Baku; June 14 - Canada, Montreal; June 28 - France, Le Castellet; July 5 - Austria, Spielberg; July 19 - Great Britain, Silverstone; August 2 - Hungary, Budapest; August 30 - Belgium, Spa; September 6 - Italy, Monza; September 20 - Singapore, Singapore; September 27 - Russia, Sochi; October 11 - Japan, Suzuka; October 25 - United States, Austin; November 1 - Mexico City, Mexico City; November 15 - Brazil, Sao Paulo; November 29 - Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi.
Tips for taking the metro
- set out well ahead of time
- make sure you have at least Dh15 on you Nol card, as there could be big queues for top-up machines
- enter the right cabin. The train may be too busy to move between carriages once you're on
- don't carry too much luggage and tuck it under a seat to make room for fellow passengers
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Omar Yabroudi's factfile
Born: October 20, 1989, Sharjah
Education: Bachelor of Science and Football, Liverpool John Moores University
2010: Accrington Stanley FC, internship
2010-2012: Crystal Palace, performance analyst with U-18 academy
2012-2015: Barnet FC, first-team performance analyst/head of recruitment
2015-2017: Nottingham Forest, head of recruitment
2018-present: Crystal Palace, player recruitment manager
UAE currency: the story behind the money in your pockets
Teams
Punjabi Legends Owners: Inzamam-ul-Haq and Intizar-ul-Haq; Key player: Misbah-ul-Haq
Pakhtoons Owners: Habib Khan and Tajuddin Khan; Key player: Shahid Afridi
Maratha Arabians Owners: Sohail Khan, Ali Tumbi, Parvez Khan; Key player: Virender Sehwag
Bangla Tigers Owners: Shirajuddin Alam, Yasin Choudhary, Neelesh Bhatnager, Anis and Rizwan Sajan; Key player: TBC
Colombo Lions Owners: Sri Lanka Cricket; Key player: TBC
Kerala Kings Owners: Hussain Adam Ali and Shafi Ul Mulk; Key player: Eoin Morgan
Venue Sharjah Cricket Stadium
Format 10 overs per side, matches last for 90 minutes
Timeline October 25: Around 120 players to be entered into a draft, to be held in Dubai; December 21: Matches start; December 24: Finals
Boulder shooting victims
• Denny Strong, 20
• Neven Stanisic, 23
• Rikki Olds, 25
• Tralona Bartkowiak, 49
• Suzanne Fountain, 59
• Teri Leiker, 51
• Eric Talley, 51
• Kevin Mahoney, 61
• Lynn Murray, 62
• Jody Waters, 65
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Amitav Ghosh, University of Chicago Press
The specs
- Engine: 3.9-litre twin-turbo V8
- Power: 640hp
- Torque: 760nm
- On sale: 2026
- Price: Not announced yet
FIXTURES (all times UAE)
Sunday
Brescia v Lazio (3.30pm)
SPAL v Verona (6pm)
Genoa v Sassuolo (9pm)
AS Roma v Torino (11.45pm)
Monday
Bologna v Fiorentina (3.30pm)
AC Milan v Sampdoria (6pm)
Juventus v Cagliari (6pm)
Atalanta v Parma (6pm)
Lecce v Udinese (9pm)
Napoli v Inter Milan (11.45pm)
Six pitfalls to avoid when trading company stocks
Following fashion
Investing is cyclical, buying last year's winners often means holding this year's losers.
Losing your balance
You end up with too much exposure to an individual company or sector that has taken your fancy.
Being over active
If you chop and change your portfolio too often, dealing charges will eat up your gains.
Running your losers
Investors hate admitting mistakes and hold onto bad stocks hoping they will come good.
Selling in a panic
If you sell up when the market drops, you have locked yourself out of the recovery.
Timing the market
Even the best investor in the world cannot consistently call market movements.
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F1 The Movie
Starring: Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Javier Bardem
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Rating: 4/5
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Smart words at Make Smart Cool
Make Smart Cool is not your usual festival. Dubbed “edutainment” by organisers Najahi Events, Make Smart Cool aims to inspire its youthful target audience through a mix of interactive presentation by social media influencers and a concert finale featuring Example with DJ Wire. Here are some of the speakers sharing their inspiration and experiences on the night.
Prince Ea
With his social media videos accumulating more half a billion views, the American motivational speaker is hot on the college circuit in the US, with talks that focus on the many ways to generate passion and motivation when it comes to learning.
Khalid Al Ameri
The Emirati columnist and presenter is much loved by local youth, with writings and presentations about education, entrepreneurship and family balance. His lectures on career and personal development are sought after by the education and business sector.
Ben Ouattara
Born to an Ivorian father and German mother, the Dubai-based fitness instructor and motivational speaker is all about conquering fears and insecurities. His talk focuses on the need to gain emotional and physical fitness when facing life’s challenges. As well managing his film production company, Ouattara is one of the official ambassadors of Dubai Expo2020.
