Dubai: Are you a one-person business looking for space outside of home? Or a startup with a handful of members?
Co-working spaces in the UAE are once again gaining on the popularity charts after enduring a torrid phase during the pandemic-created lockdowns and as small businesses/startups made adjustments to their operations.
Now, with commercial activity picking up gradually, these workspaces continue to offer lower cost options – and that will remain their biggest draw in the coming months.
“There is a tendency (among small business setups) that they are paying so much for a space that is not being used,” said Imran Farooq, CEO of Star Business Centre, which operates co-working locations at JLT (Jumeirah Lake Towers) and in Business Bay. In comparison, “the co-working space minimises operational and capital expenditures.”
Revolutionary Roots: Introducing Nafis White
8.15.20
Nafis White describes herself as “an artist, first and foremost.” But, having grown up in a family engaged in advocating for racial justice, being an activist “kind of comes with the territory” as well. White’s work as a “multihyphenate” artist is rooted in different practices and art forms, from dance to sculpture to weaving and hairdressing, which often explore and affirm Black beauty and self-care. White’s work includes research of Victorian Hair Weaving, in which she reappropriates and reclaims white hair practices from this era for Black hair, working toward colorful, deliberately defiant empowerment - through “play and continuous exploration.” She emphasizes that in her “appropriation of the Victorian… deep in my heart, I’m just stealing that shit back,” pointing in particular to longstanding Nigerian practices. The different art forms White practices draw on and engage with her own rich ances