Hair couture and fertile dreams: Where to be this weekend in the Middle East

This week's agenda looks a lot like what you might find yourself talking about next time you visit your grandmother's house: hot summer days, fertility, restrictive nature and hair. I'll let you decide if the exhibits or your aunts do a better job at exploring each one.

Every Thursday, L’Orient Today, in partnership with The MYM Agenda, guides you through happenings across the Middle East that are actually worth your time.

What to do this weekend in Beirut:

Ali Mourabet's paintings feel like a hot summer day at your teta's village, while you and your cousins sit on plastic chairs in her backyard after lunch, eating popsicles and listening to your moms do the dishes and argue. Take the figurative trip with him this weekend at Dar Saab Art Gallery in Choueifat (Aley district).

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What to do this weekend in Dubai:

"Fertile Dreams," showing at Tabari Art Space, gathers artists from the MENA region and its diaspora who explore fertility as a creative and transformative force linked to cycles of land and self.

Working across drawing, painting, ceramics, textiles, and installation, they use surrealist philosophy and Middle Eastern mysticism to bridge body and land, focusing on life’s enduring sources — earth, water, ritual, culture and myth. And your aunt's obsession with everyone else's womb.

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What to do this weekend in Abu Dhabi:

Richard Hearns unveils his solo exhibition at Artbooth Gallery in al-Rawdah this Thursday, in which he explores thresholds through expressive, imagined landscapes, asking if we set our own limits or if our surroundings do.

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What to do this weekend in Doha:

Amazigh Hair Couture, showing at M7 Gallery in Doha, celebrates Moroccan Amazigh hair traditions as a dynamic and evolving art form.

Hair holds stories of memory, beauty, resistance and identity (and that's not just something I tell myself when I feel like I'm thinking about my hair too much). Reclaiming what was once objectified through colonial and ethnographic gazes, the exhibition presents hair as a vibrant language of self-expression and cultural pride.

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Didn't find what you were looking for? Stay up to date with all these events and more everywhere in the Arab world through the MYM Agenda, available on our website here.