DUBAI // The British DJ Fatboy Slim will perform for the first time in the Middle East next month as part of this year's Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF).
The DJ, also known as Norman Cook, will take to the decks at Le Meridien Mina Seyahi's Barasti Bar on Feb 11, for a two-hour set.
Fatboy Slim has won international acclaim and sold more than eight million albums after more than a decade in the music business.
Organisers of the DSF said: "DSF 2009 is bigger and better than ever before, and the excitement, ingenuity and sheer attitude that Fatboy Slim projects, is in many ways representative of what DSF means to its millions of visitors from across the world."
In 2003 Fatboy Slim performed to 260,000 people at a free party on Brighton beach, England.
Subsequent parties have been held on beaches in Brazil, Northern Ireland and Australia, as well as events on the banks of the Black Sea in Romania and Loch Ness in Scotland.
Tioa Vitale, 20, a Fatboy Slim fan and an Australian expatriate, said she was excited to hear the DJ was coming to Dubai.
"He's been around for a while but I still like him."
Tickets for the event cost Dh350 and are available from Time Out's ticketline 800 4669, www.timeouttickets.com, www.ticketingboxoffice.com and all Virgin Megastores in the UAE.
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Moral education needed in a 'rapidly changing world'
Moral education lessons for young people is needed in a rapidly changing world, the head of the programme said.
Alanood Al Kaabi, head of programmes at the Education Affairs Office of the Crown Price Court - Abu Dhabi, said: "The Crown Price Court is fully behind this initiative and have already seen the curriculum succeed in empowering young people and providing them with the necessary tools to succeed in building the future of the nation at all levels.
"Moral education touches on every aspect and subject that children engage in.
"It is not just limited to science or maths but it is involved in all subjects and it is helping children to adapt to integral moral practises.
"The moral education programme has been designed to develop children holistically in a world being rapidly transformed by technology and globalisation."
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Farage on Muslim Brotherhood
Nigel Farage told Reform's annual conference that the party will proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood if he becomes Prime Minister.
"We will stop dangerous organisations with links to terrorism operating in our country," he said. "Quite why we've been so gutless about this – both Labour and Conservative – I don't know.
“All across the Middle East, countries have banned and proscribed the Muslim Brotherhood as a dangerous organisation. We will do the very same.”
It is 10 years since a ground-breaking report into the Muslim Brotherhood by Sir John Jenkins.
Among the former diplomat's findings was an assessment that “the use of extreme violence in the pursuit of the perfect Islamic society” has “never been institutionally disowned” by the movement.
The prime minister at the time, David Cameron, who commissioned the report, said membership or association with the Muslim Brotherhood was a "possible indicator of extremism" but it would not be banned.
