Shawati' Issue 64

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Shawati’ 64

Abu Dhabi

Words Justin Codrai | Ú /Џ/ž )$ʆ

Poetry

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Festival

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ًﻗـﺪﻳـﻤـﺎ ﺣﺪﻳﺜﺎ ś New Transience The Old the Versus

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[1] HH Sheikh Khaled bin Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Chairman of Abu Dhabi Executive Council inaugurated the first Abu Dhabi Poetry Festival held under his patronage at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre [ADNEC]. Seen here with HE Staff Major General Pilot Faris Khalaf Al Mazrouei, Commander-in-Chief of Abu Dhabi Police and Chairman of the Cultural Programs and Heritage Festivals Committee – Abu Dhabi and Sultan Ali Al Amimi, Director of the Academy of Poetry. [2] HH Sheikh Khaled bin Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the Abu Dhabi Poetry Academy with Obaid Khalfan Al Mazrouei, Director of Planning and Projects, Cultural Programs and Heritage Festival Committee - Abu Dhabi. Images courtesty of Abu Dhabi Media Office

A party of Al Murra tribe watering at a well on the Western approaches to the Liwa group of settlements. Only experienced Bedu could find these wells as they would fill up with sand without regular use and would have to be cleared first before water could be hauled. March 1953. Ronald Codrai © DCT Abu Dhabi

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