Melissa Gronlund

We spoke to the architect Richard Fenne, who has worked on the master plans for Dubai Design District and City Walk residential, to find out.

Tania El Khoury's arresting play, which is running now at the New York University Abu Dhabi Arts Centre, invites its audience to listen to the stories of the Syrian dead

TED talker Janet Echelman brings her innovation to Dubai

The new director speaks about his plans to make his organisation benefit people across the world, from former slavery sites in Africa to regenerated urban areas

Eleven designers from the UAE are feted at Milan Design Week

Place of worship was destroyed by ISIS before extremists were driven out of Iraqi city

The first retrospective of El-Salahi’s work has opened in Oxford – the English town where the artist has lived with his family for 20 years. Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Sudanese Artist in Oxford is the inaugural show by the Ashmolean Museum’s first curator of modern and contemporary art

National Pavilion curator Khaled Alawadi talks to us about the UAE’s presence at this year’s Venice Biennale and his visions of city life

As part of the year of Emirati-French Cultural Dialogue, Alliance Francaise in Oud Metha has spruced up

CultureSummit organisers say the event promotes a global cross-fertilisation of ideas to benefit society

We meet the woman behind an annual arts festival that takes on the history of one of the bloodiest episodes in Africa’s recent history

The capital’s literature festival also presents dance, cooking and all things Polish

A team of volunteers is working to make sure the go-to encyclopedia for internet users has a picture of the Emirates that reflects their history and diversity

The National at 10: From commercially led to institution focused - the maturing of the UAE's art scene

The UAE art world has been paying attention to politics of late, and Sharjah Art Foundation has picked up the mantle