Monika Debowski, the co-founder of Glambox, packs boxes at their offices in Jumeirah Lake Towers. Razan Alzayani / The National
Monika Debowski, the co-founder of Glambox, packs boxes at their offices in Jumeirah Lake Towers. Razan Alzayani / The National

Five things to do today: sign up for Glambox or visit King Croc



Sign up for GlamBox, the monthly beauty products subscription service, and this Ramadan you can choose to gift yourself with brushes and accessories, or a friend with a subscription gift voucher, or choose to give to the community and when you buy any subscription, GlamBox will donate 20 per cent of proceeds to a women's charity. From Dh239 for a three-month subscription, www.glambox.me

See the exhibition Ireland Art Month, which features works by five Irish artists who spent one month as artists-in-residence at Art Hub, plus a guest artist and two solo exhibitors, including Mohsen Keiany, whose The Heath of Desert image is featured above. From 9am-8pm, Abu Dhabi Art Hub, Plot 38 MW5, Mussaffah, Abu Dhabi, 02 551 5005, www.adah.ae

Sign up for take part in play-reading sessions with Resuscitation Theatre, where you can explore new plays by the award-winning Emirati playwright Saleh Karama with both readings and practical work. June 25-August 13, 8-10pm on Wednesdays, 7.30pm-9.30pm, Dh50 per session, Emirates Writers Union Auditorium, National Theatre, off 15th Street between 2nd and 4th streets, Abu Dhabi, registration essential at www.resuscitationtheatre.com

Attend the pop-up cinema with The Third Line in collaboration with Cinema Akil and enjoy a screening of the Spanish-language film No by the director Pablo Larrain, which tells the story of Rene Saavedra (Gael Garcia Bernal), an advertising executive who campaigns against Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1988. At 7.30pm, free entry, Al Quoz 3, Dubai, 04 341 1367, www.thethirdline.com

Visit King Croc, the 5-metre long and 750-kg crocodile and his female companion of 20 years in a special enclosure at Dubai Aquarium & Underwater Zoo. Coming from a farm in Australia, the crocs have been transferred to Dubai as part of a dedicated educational programme on crocs for schools. From 10am-10pm, The Dubai Mall, www.thedubaiaquarium.com

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How to wear a kandura

Dos

  • Wear the right fabric for the right season and occasion 
  • Always ask for the dress code if you don’t know
  • Wear a white kandura, white ghutra / shemagh (headwear) and black shoes for work 
  • Wear 100 per cent cotton under the kandura as most fabrics are polyester

Don’ts 

  • Wear hamdania for work, always wear a ghutra and agal 
  • Buy a kandura only based on how it feels; ask questions about the fabric and understand what you are buying
VEZEETA PROFILE

Date started: 2012

Founder: Amir Barsoum

Based: Dubai, UAE

Sector: HealthTech / MedTech

Size: 300 employees

Funding: $22.6 million (as of September 2018)

Investors: Technology Development Fund, Silicon Badia, Beco Capital, Vostok New Ventures, Endeavour Catalyst, Crescent Enterprises’ CE-Ventures, Saudi Technology Ventures and IFC

Company profile

Date started: 2015

Founder: John Tsioris and Ioanna Angelidaki

Based: Dubai

Sector: Online grocery delivery

Staff: 200

Funding: Undisclosed, but investors include the Jabbar Internet Group and Venture Friends

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