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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Kutubna Cultural Center

Independent bookshop and cultural centre in Nadd Al Hamar, Dubai, with free exhibitions, talks and workshops.

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Kutubna Cultural Center

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Kutubna Cultural Center is an independent bookstore and cultural centre in Madina Avenues, Nadd Al Hamar, Dubai. It houses a bookshop, a café, a children's reading corner and event spaces, and entry is free.

Its programme centres on writing, ideas and scholarship, with lectures, readings and workshops focused on Khaleeji, Arab, Middle Eastern, North African and Muslim writers and thinkers. Its main exhibition area has twelve gallery walls, and it runs group exhibitions such as its archive project Documenting Culture in the Gulf in a Time of War.