📸 UAE private schools ban parents from filming

📰 Some private schools in Dubai and across the UAE have told parents to stop taking photos and videos on school grounds, even of their own children.

• Circulars now cover the whole school day, including drop-off, pick-up and events
• Parents are asked not to repost old photos or videos showing other students' faces
• Existing posts in WhatsApp groups and on social media should be deleted

• The exception: at official school events, parents can film their own child. Other students must not appear in the shot unless their parents have given consent.

• The reason: schools say the rules protect students' privacy. The ban followed cases where footage shot on campus ended up in parent chats and on social media.

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🍽 What The Food returns to Dubai's Alserkal Avenue

📰 On October 31 and November 1, Alserkal Avenue hosts the fifth edition of its food festival What The Food, this time with a back-to-basics theme: Khubz wa Milh, or "Bread and Salt."

👨‍🍳 The festival turns toward regional food culture, traditions and the simple act of gathering around a meal. Chefs, artists, thinkers, farmers and makers will come together through talks, workshops and more.

🗯 New this year: Off The Menu, a series of weekend conversations, collaborations and workshops in the run-up to the festival.

📍 Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai
📅 October 31 – November 1

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🏙 Dubai is about to look a bit different

🪧 The city is rolling out a new addressing system: fresh street signs, new house plates and QR codes. Areas will be colour-coded by landscape, so blue means near the sea and gold means desert.

📍 House plates will carry your Makani number plus a QR code. First up are over 2,000 signs in Za'abeel, Nad Al Sheba, Al Khawaneej and Nazwa, with all 186 areas covered by 2030. Bus stops and map boards are next in line.

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🎡 The most wonderful time of the year is back

📰 Global Village officially opens its doors for the 31st season on 14 October 2026 at 6 PM. The new season runs until May 2027 under the theme “A More Wonderful World”.

🌍 Pavilions from around the world
🍢 Street food and global flavours
🎶 Live shows and entertainment
🛍 Shopping, rides and family fun

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🎄 A new winter festival is coming to Dubai

📆 From December 1, 2026 to January 10, 2027, the DXB Winter Festival will take over the waterfront at Dubai Festival City Mall. Spread across roughly 20,000 m² by the water, it’s set to become Dubai’s new go-to spot for winter evenings out. The programme will change throughout the run, with special celebrations for UAE National Day, Christmas and New Year’s Eve.

🎅 Expect holiday market, meet & greets with Santa, food zones and live shows and concerts.

🕓 Hours:
Weekdays: 4 PM to midnight
Weekends: 2 PM to midnight

🎟 Early-bird offer: 10,000 tickets with 25% off. Pre-registration is already open.

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🌊 A new water park is opening soon in Dubai

📰 Dubai Holding Entertainment has announced the opening of a new water park within the next few months.

It will join Dubai Parks and Resorts, which already features:
🧱 Legoland
🎢 Motiongate
⚽ Real Madrid World

According to the company, the new park will focus on summer fun and water attractions.

📅 The exact opening date hasn’t been announced yet. Stay tuned!

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🎭 The Bolshoi Theatre is coming to the UAE for the first time on an official tour

📰 This December, Bolshoi artists and the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra will take the stage at Dubai Opera.

🎼 December 2 – Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Tsar’s Bride
🎻 December 3 – Symphony concert by the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Valery Gergiev
🩰 December 4-6 – Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker, staged by Yuri Grigorovich, featuring the Bolshoi’s leading dancers

🎟 Tickets start from 350 AED for the opera and concert, and from 450 AED for the ballet. Details and tickets are available on the website.

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🏎 Formula 1 confirms the Abu Dhabi and Qatar Grands Prix will go ahead as planned

🏟 The UAE race weekend will take place on December 4-6 at the Yas Marina Circuit.

🎤 Jennifer Lopez will headline the Friday After-Race Concert on December 4 at Etihad Live, Yas Island, bringing The JLo Show alongside Alex Warren.

🎟 Concert access is exclusive to Abu Dhabi Grand Prix ticket holders, with tickets from AED 745.

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🎨 Dubai Design Week is back at D3

✨ Dubai’s outdoor art festival has landed at Dubai Design District with a full week of art, design and creativity. Exhibitions, installations, talks, workshops and interactive experiences.

🛍 Weekend marketplace on Saturday, November 7 and Sunday, November 8, with homegrown businesses, independent makers, handmade goods, fashion, jewellery and more.

📍 Dubai Design District (D3)
🗓 Until Sunday, November 8

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