The United Arab Emirates, sometimes simply called the Emirates, is a sovereign state in Western Asia at the northeast end of the Arabian Peninsula on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman to the east and Saudi Arabia to the south and west, as well as sharing maritime borders with Qatar to the west and Iran to the north. The sovereign absolute monarchy is a federation of seven emirates consisting of Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm Al Quwain. Their boundaries are complex, with numerous enclaves within the various emirates. Each emirate is governed by a ruler; together, they jointly form the Federal Supreme Council. One of the rulers serves as the President of the United Arab Emirates. In 2013, the UAE's population was 9.2 million, of which 1.4 million are Emirati citizens and 7.8 million are expatriates. However, the UAE population in 2020 has seen an increase as per the official reports.
Al Arabiya is a Saudi owned free-to-air television news channel based in Dubai. It is broadcast in Modern Standard Arabic to a pan-Arab audience.
Harper's Bazaar is an American monthly women's fashion magazine, first published based in New York City on November 2, 1867, as the weekly Harper's Bazar. Harper's Bazaar is published by New York City-based Hearst and considers itself to be the style resource for "women who are the first to buy the best, from casual to couture". Aimed at what it calls "discerning ladies", Bazaar is published monthly with the slogan, motto, theme and tagline its World and American's No. 1 Fashion Magazine.
A bazaar or souk, is a permanently enclosed marketplace or street where goods and services are exchanged or sold.
Emaar Properties is an Emirati multinational real estate development company located in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is a public joint-stock company, listed on the Dubai Financial Market, and has a valuation of US$9.7 billion as of June 2018. The company operates internationally providing property development and management services. With six business segments and 60 active companies, Emaar has collective presence in 36 markets across the Middle East, North Africa, Pan-Asia, Europe and North America.
Mohamed Alabbar, is an Emirati businessman and global entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder and chairman of Emaar Properties, the developer of assets such as the Burj Khalifa and the Dubai Mall, as well as the chairman of Eagle Hills, the Abu Dhabi based private investment and real estate development company. He is also the founder and director of noon.com, an e-commerce ecosystem for the Arab world and largest GCC e-commerce company and the chairman of Americana Group, in food industries.
Art in Dubai is an emerging activity in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. New galleries such as Carbon 12 Dubai, art fairs, artists, art patrons and collectors have grown in number.
Ralph & Russo is a European, privately held company owned and founded by Tamara Ralph and Michael Russo. Ralph & Russo is a high fashion house that specializes in haute couture and ready-to-wear clothes, luxury goods, and fashion accessories.
Sayidaty is a weekly Arabic and a monthly English women's magazine published in both Dubai and Beirut and distributed throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and America.
Simon Coates is a British mixed media artist, writer & curator.
Rokni Haerizadeh is an Iranian artist living and working in Dubai. He participated in the Carnegie International in 2013.
Hani Zurob ; born 1976 in Rafah Camp in the Gaza Strip, is a Palestinian artist and painter based in Paris, France. His work addresses concepts of exile, waiting, movement and displacement, and aims to present the collective Palestinian experience through reflections on the personal.
Shumon Basar is a British writer, editor and curator.
Eureeca is an equity crowdfunding platform with offices in Dubai, London, Amsterdam and Kuala Lumpur that allows early-stage businesses and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to raise capital from a group of investors, who range from casual and angel investors to institutional firms, in exchange for equity. Eureeca serves as an alternative financing option to more traditional financing sources such as banks and venture capital firms.
Reem al Faisal Al Saud is a Saudi Arabian photographer, political journalist, and gallery owner, who lives in Jeddah and Paris.
Maryam Eisler is an Iranian-born, London-based artist and former marketer. She is known as a photographer, writer, book editor, art collector, and she serves on many boards.
Elie Khouri is a Lebanese-French marketing and communications executive in Dubai. He is the Chairman of Omnicom Media Group MENA, the media services division of the Omnicom Group.
Kourosh Sotoodeh is an Iranian born fashion photographer based in New York City.
Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar is an Iranian-French multidisciplinary artist who lives in the south of France. Behnam-Bakhtiar is primarily known for his oil paintings created in his signature style of peinture raclée, collage works and films.
Ramin, Rokni, Hesam are a Dubai-based artist collective from Iran, consisting of Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian who’s working and living together described as a project, since 2009.
