This year, the Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival (RAKFAF) in the UAE will celebrate its 10th edition under the theme “The Journey.” It will be a celebration of the annual event’s first decade. As well as a celebration of the first 50 years of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The arts festival will open to the public on Friday, 4th of February 2022. And it will run until Thursday, 31st March 2022.
The world is getting ready to converge on the luxurious desert oasis of Dubai. With its world-renowned architecture, forward thinking business practices and year-round sunny weather, Dubai has become a major world player in less than a generation. This once sleepy trading port for the Middle East has evolved into a worldly hub of culture, tourism, trade and entertainment. Despite the current pandemic, Dubai is still liberalizing policies to entice more international business and growing because of it. Entertainment jobs are springing up all around Dubai. Working in Dubai can be lucrative for many freelancers, with high wages and low taxes, it is a mecca for anyone wanting to earn top dollar. However, Dubai is still an Arab city, situated within a Muslim country. With both tradition and law held in high regard, it is important for anyone living or working in Dubai to know exactly what they can expect and what will be expected of them.
This was not my first Ramadan, my first was in Egypt when I was traveling along the Nile on a felucca boat and the boat crew would wake early before sunrise to have their breakfast and would then set sail while we still slept on the deck of the boat so we awoke to a sun rising over sandy hills as we sailed back towards Luxor. Once everyone was awake the crew would pull into shore to make us breakfast, despite them now fasting for the day.
Greetings from the Middle East where in the past week we’ve had Eid – the end of Ramadan celebration. I decided this year, being my first in the Middle East, to adopt a tone of part intrigue, part education and part solidarity to try and learn as much as I could about Islam and the holy month of Ramadan.
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