Universal Music Group has established a partnership with Dubai Global Music City (DGMC) to begin building a music city in the Middle East. This ‘Music City’ will be based somewhere in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Several major corporations have expressed excitement about ‘the Middle East’s first-ever Music City’.
Nai Barghouti is a Palestinian musician and collaborator on a new track with Grammy-Award winning artist Skrillex. The new song, titled Xena, is the fifth single release from Skrillex in recent times, and the latest in a number of collaborations with other musicians that includes tracks with Fred Again, Flowdan, PinkPantheress, Trippie Redd, Bobby Raps, […]
So you’re thinking of working in the UAE but don’t know whether it’s right for you? It can be hard to get a clear picture of what it’s really like before you go. This is partly because there are laws against criticising the government and people don’t want to say anything that could possibly be interpreted as negative.
A Gaza bookshop that was destroyed in 2021 has plans to reopen following an appeal publicised by Books2Door, a Midlands-based business in the UK. The online book shop helped to raise an impressive amount of funds and book donations in a global online campaign. The Samir Mansour Shop Attacks in May of 2021 demolished the […]
Iranian composer and musician Mehdi Rajabian is currently evading prison by creating a new album – the artist has previously served two years due to the Iranian government not approving of his music. In Iran, creating music is an incredibly complicated and multifaceted process for many reasons, not least because of strong censorship and lack […]
In recent years a number of new performance venues have opened across the Middle East. This is paving the way for productions across the world to bring their performances to new audiences. Some of the top venues in the region include iconic Dubai Opera, the New York University Abu Dhabi Arts Centre, the Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmad Cultural Centre in Kuwait, the King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture in Saudi Arabia and of course our Royal Opera House in Muscat, Oman.
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