Taking place at Market at EDITION you’ll find an entirely cruelty-free, plant-based three-course culinary extravaganza, taste highlights of which include — king kale salad, cauliflower tabbouleh, charred aubergine steak and black rice pudding.

The brunch was in part conceived by the Abu Dhabi EDITION’s Michelin Star-toting gastronomy partner, British master-in-Chef Tom Aikens.

The inaugural session gets underway on Monday, May 2 as part of the hotel’s assortment of grand Eid Al Fitr celebrations, and will then repeat daily through to Thursday, May 5. The timings are 1 pm to 5 pm, and the soft beverage option is Dhs155, with an upgrade to the next package available for just Dhs100.

After the holidays the brunch will then move to a weekly event taking place every Sunday from then onwards.

For more ideas on where to get great vegan food in Abu Dhabi, check out our guide to some of the best plant-based plates in the capital.

Elsewhere in the hotel over Eid, you can take advantage of a special festive staycation package for Dhs1,700 which includes

• An overnight stay in a Deluxe Marina Room with Balcony
• An early check-in
• Pre-dinner refreshments at the Library Bar
• A three-course set menu dinner at Oak Room
• Breakfast for two in Market at EDITION
• Afternoon tea for two at Alba Terrace
• A late checkout

At Dhs850 per person, that sounds like a pretty good deal.

There’s an Alba Terrace Eid lunch available over a three hour period between 12.30 pm and 5 pm on Monday, May 2. Taking place poolside, the culinary offering includes artisanal fare from the venue’s wood fire pizza oven. Packages start at just Dhs215.

The Abu Dhabi Edition, Eid dates: Mon to Thu 1 pm to 5 pm, then every Sun 1 pm to 5 pm, from Dhs155. Tel: (0)2 208 0000.

Source: https://whatson.ae/2022/04/theres-a-brand-new-five-star-vegan-brunch-in-abu-dhabi/

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Dubai Comedy Festival has revealed the remaining headliners for this year’s star-studded programme which features comedian and actor Russell Peters, Bollywood star Vir Das, Jo Koy, Josh Widdecombe and Gad Elmaleh as headliners.

The 11-day event, which will be held at The Agenda, Coca-Cola Arena and The Theater Mall of the Emirates from May 12 to 22, has been produced by BRAG, Live Nation, and DXB Live and is presented by Dubai Calendar.

The remaining acts will feature some top notch names from Egypt, Lebanon, South Africa, Palestine, Kuwait, the UK and Jordan.

Bassem Youssef will take to the stage on May 21 at The Agenda. The former heart surgeon quit his day job to become a stand-up comedian. Today, he’s hailed as the Egyptian Jon Stewart, and his brand of clever and controversial comedy has tickled audiences from New York City to Dubai.

On May 19, The Theater will see the Awk.word trio Shaden Fakih, Chaker bou Abdalla and Nour Hajjar who will headline this Arabic language show. They are collectively known for kickstarting the first underground stand-up comedy platform in Lebanon.

Also coming to the festival are Egyptian comedians, Alaa El Sheikh, Noha Kato, and Mohamed Helmy who will peform on May 17 at The Theater MOE in an Arabic language show.

Adding more to the list of Arabic showcases here’s your chance to keep the laughs going as three amazing comedians from the region – Adi Khalifa, Ahmad Alshammari and Eman Khallouf make their appearance right after the first show. Whether you connect with Palestinian, Kuwaiti, or Jordanian humor, this show promises it all and will be held at The Theater MOE on May 17.

On May 15, laugh it up with The New Material Comedy Tour that will feature Riaad Moosa, Joey Rasdien, Schalk Bezuidenhout live at The Agenda. This trio of comedians from South Africa will have audiences hooting at their hilarious brand of comedy. Hosted by home-grown talent, Abz Ali, the powerhouse performance will wrap with an exclusive cut of New Material – eight years after Riaad Moosa’s original movie Material was released.

On May 20, the Coca-Cola Arena will feature award-winning South African comedian Loyiso Gola, while the same evening will see Micky P. Kerr from Britain’s Got Talent at The Theater MOE.

Tickets for the Dubai Comedy Festival are available through Dubai Calendar.

Source: https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/arts-culture/bassem-youssef-loyiso-gola-and-more-headliners-revealed-to-perform-at-dubai-comedy-festival-1.87452607

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What’s an Eid celebration without a spectacular display of fireworks lighting up the sky and your lives? And as always, the UAE has pulled all stops to make this year’s festive holiday a sparkling affair. But where are the best vantage points to view the fireworks? We have made it easier for you as we bring you a list of places that you can head to over the long Eid weekend.

Yas Island:

Abu Dhabi’s leading leisure destination, this fun island is a great place to enjoy Eid celebrations as the skies light up with iconic, festive firesworks displays on the first three days of Eid Al Fitr. The shows will begin at 9pm.

Dubai Festival City Mall:

The popular Festival Bay at Dubai Festival City Mall is set to display a grand three-minute firework show on May 3 at 9pm. This will happen alongside Imagine, a light, laser and sound show. If you’d like to catch some live music, there is also a concert by Nassif Zeytoun and Rahma Riad that tickets can be bought for.

Global Village:

Grab your family and head to this much-loved location to view fireworks every day over Eid, starting from 9pm. Make the most of the holidays as the venue will have extend timings — from 5pm until 2am from Saturday — until it closes on May 7.

The Pointe:

Home to the world’s largest fountain, The Pointe will also be celebrating the first day of Eid with a fireworks display, and of course, a fountain show. The shows will be on the first day of Eid (expected to be May 2), at 9pm.

Bluewaters Island:

Head to this now iconic destination early to catch some Insta-worthy shots underneath Ain Dubai, the world’s largest observation wheel. The venue will have a fireworks show on the second day of Eid Al Fitr, starting at 9pm.

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Dubai just announced a newprogramme that offers professional workers who are working from home overseas the chance to relocate to Dubai. (Send this to someone you love abroad!)

Moving to Dubai for WFH peeps makes so much sense, residents will tell you; Dubai is SAFE, with a great lifestyle, high-quality digital infrastructure, global networking opportunities, and zero income tax for individuals, plus, both Dubai and the UAE have been recognised as a global model for dealing with the pandemic

If you’re working from home overseas, you have a new annual visa option where you could live in Dubai and continue to work from home

#Dubai launches unique virtual working programme for overseas professionals, the programme offers remote workers and their families the opportunity to re-locate to the emirate. https://t.co/o82ba2IiOh

— Dubai Media Office (@DXBMediaOffice) October 14, 2020

The visas would be on an annual basis and it might just be a no-brainer if you’re working from home!

The move means remote workers – and their families – have the opportunity to relocate to Dubai, strengthens Dubai’s status as a global business hub and demonstrates its progressive thinking and in today’s changing business climate.

To get the visa, you must meet the following criteria

• Passport with minimum 6 months validity
• Health insurance with UAE coverage validity
• Proof of Employment from a current employer with a one-year contract validity, a minimum of US$5,000 per month salary, last month’s payslip and 3 preceding months’ bank statements
• If the applicant is a company owner: proof of ownership of the company for one year or more, with an average monthly income of US$5,000 per month, and 3 preceding months’ bank statements

The important bits
Apply here

The programme costs US$287 PLUS medical insurance with valid UAE coverage and processing fee per person.

Source: https://lovin.co/dubai/en/latest/working-from-home-dubai/

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Dubai has always been the symbol of future for the whole world. What’s new this time? Well, a full scale prototype model of Virgin Hyperloop One is displayed as a part of UAE’s Innovation Week by the Roads and Transportation Authority. What’s so interesting? This Hyperloop pod will propel the passengers at the top speed of 1000 km/hr. To give you a reference, you can now reach Abu Dhabi from Dubai just in 15 minutes. This pod will obviously be travelling in a vacuum tube with magnets. Hyperloop pod will run over the ground for most of the routes and would go in the tunnels to reach both the cities.

Virgin Hyperloop One, owned by Richard Branson has proposed this new pod rout. He had announced a similar project in India last year. Virgin Hyperloop had secured $50 million in initial funding in 2016, from Dubai-based capital firm, World and Caspian Venture Capital. This project was predicted to be completed by 2020.

Rob Lloyd, newly appointed CEO of Virgin Hyperloop spoke about the future of Hyperloop in UAE. He said that ‘Dubai – Abu Dhabi route’ is just one of the wider planned routes in GCC network. He believes this route has the potential to transform the mobility of goods and of people, and have a dramatic impact on the economical development of the region. Lloyd revealed that Virgin Hyperloop One has closely been working and planning things with the RTA for over a year to examine costs, ticket prices, and best routes.

Rob Lloyd didn’t open up about the eventual cost of this 4150km transport link. But if Forbes is to be trusted, it reported in one the company presentation that the Dubai to Abu Dhabi route would cost somewhere around $4.8 billion to $52m a mile.

Fun fact, this Hyperloop concept was originally developed by billionaire, genius, Elon Musk who had proposed a route between LA and San Francisco, the USA which he believed could be built for $11m per mile.

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22nd February 2018 will mark the beginning of the Dubai Food Festival which will go on until 10th March 2018 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is truly the only citywide celebrated food festival in the Middle East.

The festival offers a calendar of exciting food-related events and promotions which will be highlighting Dubai’s unique food scene and its personalities and world-class dining experiences. Sample cuisines from all over the world are to be featured at the beach behind Sunset Mall transforming it into a dining and entertainment hotspot.

The Festival promotes the diversity, creativity and multicultural nature of people in Dubai. We are talking about five-star gourmet dining to everyday restaurants and cafes of all budgets.

There are International brands to burgeoning scene of home-grown concepts which all are influenced by traditional Emirati cuisine and flavors of the 200 nationalities that live in Dubai. Running for 17 days you can expect to find much more than food, with markets, live music, fitness classes, kid’s activities and many more.

The festival is organized by Dubai Festivals and Retail Establishment (DFRE), an agency of Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM).

The Dubai Food Festival will feature a mouth-watering line-up of events and activities and would engage more than 1000 restaurants and 30 celebrity chefs showcasing the diversity, creativity and multicultural nature of Dubai’s culinary offering.

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Science was all about discovering but now it is all about creating. Yes, it’s true because the future of health and science took a long step ahead!

Meet Neil Harbisson, the first person in the world with an antenna implanted in his skull.

Neil, who was in Dubai to attend the World Government Summit, was recognized as the world’s first cyborg in 2004. Since then he became the co-founder of the Cyborg Foundation which is an international organization that defends cyborg rights, promotes cyborg art and supports people who want to become cyborgs.

According to Neil the antenna in his head has helped him cope with colour blindness. The antenna that is implanted inside his head allows him to extend perception of reality beyond the visual spectrum. He can even sense infrared and ultraviolet.

Harbisson hears the tonal equivalent of colours through an antenna implanted in his skull.

He also has an internet connection in his head that allows him to receive colours from other parts of the world, or which can connect to satellite so that he can send colours from space. His wifi-enabled antenna sends vibrations in his skull to report information to him, such as electromagnetic radiation, videos or images which are translated into audible vibrations.

Neil feels the antenna as a body part, not a device, but as an organ.

The future is now!

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Dubai is often called the city of the future. It has continued to be one of the fastest developing and most innovative cities in the world. Dubai’s latest government initiatives are on the track to make it the city that is 10 years ahead of other major metropolises of the world. But, because of the growing population, commuters in Dubai experiences a high amount of traffic congestion, which is the biggest concern among Dubai’s 1.44 million residents which inflicts losses of Dh4.6 billion or 3.15% of the emirate’s Dh146 billion GDP a year.

The city has become the most congested city in the Middle East. Although the government has invested heavily in the Dubai’s road infrastructure, it has not kept pace with the increase in the number of vehicles.

To bring an end to this chaos, Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has started the first test of the world’s first autonomous pods at the World Government Summit recently. Two full scale prototypes of these pods were displayed at Madinat Jumeirah.

The autonomous pods were launched in cooperation with Next Future Transportation. These pods are designed to travel short and medium distances in dedicated lanes. It is fitted with 3D cameras and electromechanical technologies to carry out the coupling and detaching, which can be activated while the pod is in motion.

Each pod is fitted with cameras and electromechanical technologies to carry out the coupling and detaching, which can be activated while the pod is in motion. It has an average speed 20 kilometres per hour and it measures 2.87 metres in length, 2.24 metres in width and 2.82 metres in height. It weighs about 1,500 kilograms, enough to carry 10 riders.

A part of RTA endeavors are to provide autonomous transport by carrying out technological tests on autonomous transportation under Dubai’s climatic conditions.

The autonomous pod is fitted with a battery that supports three hours of operation and can be charged in just six hours. Depending on the rider’s destination they can be coupled together in as little 15 seconds or detached.

In the context of transforming Dubai into the smartest city worldwide, the pilot test of driverless units is directed by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.

As part of the initial phase of Dubai Future Accelerators the RTA has signed an agreement with the US-based Next Future Inc. to develop the units.

The success of initial tests of these units will bring about a breakthrough in transportation systems that offer innovative mobility solutions in the city. The pods form part of Dubai’s larger strategy of making 25 percent of all journeys in Dubai autonomous by 2030.

Looks like Dubai is leaving behind Elon Musk in innovation!

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A night ahead the Prime Minister of India had scheduled to make an arrival in the country, the world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa, the headquarters of state-owned oil company Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and the building hailed as the world’s largest picture frame, Dubai Frame, were seen glittering in the colours of the Indian flag.

This would be PM Modi’s second visit to the country. He had visited the UAE in 2015.

Dubai’s iconic buildings were lit up in colours of the Indian flag before he arrived. He will be given a ceremonial reception before meeting the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the Presidential palace.

The Prime Minister’s high-level engagements will include bilateral meetings with top UAE leaders and a keynote address at the World Government Summit in Dubai on Sunday, in which India is the guest country.

The energy security and infrastructural investments in India would be the key topics that he will discuss with the UAE’s leadership.

The large investment from UAE to India exceeds $11 billion.

He is likely to have bilateral talks with Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, followed by a signing ceremony of agreements and Memorandum of understandings and a banquet hosted by Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed.

The UAE is home to over three million people of Indian origin.

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Dubai Frame has been named among the world’s best new attractions of 2017. It is an architectural landmark in Zabeel Park which has been described as “the biggest picture frame on the planet”.

Landmarks representing modern Dubai such as Emirates Towers and Burj Khalifa can be seen on one side, while from the other side, we can enjoy the view of older parts of the city such as Deira, Umm Hurair and Karama.

The Dh160-million structure will connect the past with the present through a 93-metre bridge at the top that will give visitors a 360-degree view of Dubai, measuring 150 metres high. A one-minute elevator ride at the left tower will take them to the glass bridge through which they will see tall skyscrapers of Sheikh Zayed Road, the Burj Khalifa and the Emirates Towers that symbolise the modern part of Dubai on the South. Turning around to the north, the landmark areas of Deira, Umm Hurair, Bur Dubai and Karama will convey the old part of Dubai.

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