Enrique Iglesias returns to the United Arab Emirates with a concert at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi on November 1, 2025, marking a new chapter in his connection with audiences in the region. A few years after his last appearance, the most celebrated Latin artist of his generation brings back to the stage the songs that have defined more than two decades of his career. With a bilingual repertoire that blends romantic ballads and dance rhythms, Iglesias has built a transnational dimension that goes far beyond his Spanish and Cuban roots. From his early years in the 1990s to worldwide hits such as Hero and Bailando, he has maintained a central role in the international pop scene, forging collaborations with urban music icons and constantly renewing his image. His presence in Abu Dhabi confirms the city’s growing importance as a hub for major global music events. The Yas Island arena, already home to international productions, once again becomes a meeting point between local audiences and global stars. Iglesias, who has always used language and musical genre as tools of connection, brings to the Emirates the essence of his artistic journey: music designed to cross cultural and linguistic boundaries.
At Sharjah Art Foundation, Ahaad Alamoudi examines repetition as a condition of the present. Through Gulf symbols, pop imagery and looping gestures, Sunkissed reflects on a cultural landscape suspended between memory, development and temporal fatigue.
At Jameel Art Centre in Dubai, Global Positioning System examines mobility as an uneven and unstable experience. Through maps, infrastructures and disrupted routes, the exhibition reflects on the circularity of movement and the limits of contemporary systems of orientation.
At 421 Arts Campus, the exhibition traces a decade of artistic practices in the UAE as an evolving process. Traces, legacies and transformations emerge through a non-linear narrative. A reflection on time, community and the role of cultural institutions.
Béchir Boussandel, Emotional Geographies of Survival
Béchir Boussandel, an artist divided between Tunisia and France, shapes mental landscapes that speak of the social invisibility of gleaners - the “gleaner” or "berbasha" - transforming organic materials, blown glass, oil paint, and metal into emotional geographies of survival and belonging.
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