The National has teamed up with Design Days Dubai to provide 20 House & Home readers with free access to the show on its opening day, Sunday, March 18. Winners will be given a free Design Days catalogue and will take part in a meet and greet with fair director, Cyril Zammit at 6.30pm.
The first event in the region dedicated to collectable and limited-edition design, Design Days Dubai takes place from March 18 to 21 in a purpose built venue at the base of Burj Khalifa in Downtown Dubai.
The show is open to the public, with tickets priced at Dh50.
Leading design galleries from around the world will showcase more than 400 rare, amazing and iconic pieces of design. With objects worth anything from €500 (Dh2,424) to €350,000 on show, Design Days Dubai will cater to everyone from bona fide design collectors to design students and "design amateurs" looking to purchase (or even just admire) unique objects that they might not see elsewhere in Dubai.
Running alongside the exhibition are workshops, seminars and mentoring sessions by leading design personalities such as Nada Debs, Li Edelkoort, Leo Capote, Amaury and Rabih Hage.
Zammit asks one thing of all Design Days Dubai attendees: "Be curious, and do ask the gallery representatives the story behind the objects that have attracted your curiosity. You will be surprised to discover the process behind them."
Free tickets will be given away on a first-come, first-served basis. Readers can request a maximum of two tickets. To apply, email homes@thenational.ae by Thursday, March 15 at the latest.
To find out more about the event and full details of the workshop programme, visit www.designdaysdubai.ae
Hidden killer
Sepsis arises when the body tries to fight an infection but damages its own tissue and organs in the process.
The World Health Organisation estimates it affects about 30 million people each year and that about six million die.
Of those about three million are newborns and 1.2 are young children.
Patients with septic shock must often have limbs amputated if clots in their limbs prevent blood flow, causing the limbs to die.
Campaigners say the condition is often diagnosed far too late by medical professionals and that many patients wait too long to seek treatment, confusing the symptoms with flu.
German intelligence warnings
- 2002: "Hezbollah supporters feared becoming a target of security services because of the effects of [9/11] ... discussions on Hezbollah policy moved from mosques into smaller circles in private homes." Supporters in Germany: 800
- 2013: "Financial and logistical support from Germany for Hezbollah in Lebanon supports the armed struggle against Israel ... Hezbollah supporters in Germany hold back from actions that would gain publicity." Supporters in Germany: 950
- 2023: "It must be reckoned with that Hezbollah will continue to plan terrorist actions outside the Middle East against Israel or Israeli interests." Supporters in Germany: 1,250
Source: Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
2018 ICC World Twenty20 Asian Western Regional Qualifier
The top three teams progress to the Asia Qualifier
Final: UAE beat Qatar by nine wickets
Third-place play-off: Kuwait beat Saudi Arabia by five runs
Table
1 UAE 5 5 0 10
2 Qatar 5 4 1 8
3 Saudi 5 3 2 6
4 Kuwait 5 2 3 4
5 Bahrain 5 1 4 2
6 Maldives 5 0 5 0
The biog
DOB: March 13, 1987
Place of birth: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia but lived in Virginia in the US and raised in Lebanon
School: ACS in Lebanon
University: BSA in Graphic Design at the American University of Beirut
MSA in Design Entrepreneurship at the School of Visual Arts in New York City
Nationality: Lebanese
Status: Single
Favourite thing to do: I really enjoy cycling, I was a participant in Cycling for Gaza for the second time this year
The President's Cake
Director: Hasan Hadi
Starring: Baneen Ahmad Nayyef, Waheed Thabet Khreibat, Sajad Mohamad Qasem
Rating: 4/5
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