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Abu Dhabi neighbourhoods: Zayed Sports City
Nick Leech explores Abu Dhabi’s Zayed Sports City and the area around one of Abu Dhabi’s best known landmarks, the Carrefour supermarket on Airport Road As is so often the case after many hours spent...
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Abu Dhabi neighbourhoods: Al Mehairba
Nick Leech explores Al Mehairba, a neighbourhood that exists in the minds and relationships of its residents, but is strangely absent from local street signs and city maps It’s late in the afternoon...
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Abu Dhabi’s new mosque modernisation programme threatens the very traditions...
Nick Leech visits one of Abu Dhabi’s very last temporary mosques and finds a living tradition of prayer with direct links to the nation’s past It is midday and over 100°F when Syed Akmal Ahmed arrives...
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Gulfography: the girls from Dubai are here
Nick Leech speaks to Shammi Samano and Asma Al Kendi, the founders of a new online gallery that’s dedicated to breaking down cultural barriers by bringing art from the Gulf region to a wider audience...
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Marina Abramovic: the artist has arrived
Nick Leech speaks to the self-styled ‘grandmother of performance art’ about her contribution to Abu Dhabi Art 2012 As I begin my interview with performance artist Marina Abramovic, I expect to talk...
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