The city of Dubai is to build an opera house and two museums to reflect the 'cultural side' of the rapidly growing Gulf emirate, Dubai's Crown Prince Shaikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum said...
'We want to expose the other face of our state and its love for civilisation, peace and culture,' local news agency Wam quoted Al Maktoum as saying as he gave the three projects the go-ahead.
'We want for our state to have a civilised and cultural dimension, parallel to its ... economic and commercial one,' he added.
Dubai fashions itself as a cosmopolitan city, and aspires to become a tourist and commercial hub.
Early December, it hosted the second annual international film festival despite the absence of a cinema industry in the UAE.
The opera house, which has been designed by Baghdad-born architect Zaha Hadid, the first woman winner of the prestigious Pritzker Prize, will be built on an island in Dubai's Creek area.
It will feature two libraries and a school for music, and an outdoor theatre, as well as a marina and a luxury hotel, Wam said.
One of the two planned museums will be dedicated to art while the other will be multidisciplinary, it added. Reuters
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