What if culture wasn’t something built from the top, but grown from below? In this WUF Dubai 2025 interview, Gaith Abdulla—curator, writer, and co-founder of Engage101—shares his perspective on the grassroots cultural movements shaping the Gulf. Through independent spaces, community-led initiatives, and archival resistance, he outlines an alternative map of cultural infrastructure, rooted in local knowledge and collective authorship. A conversation on intimacy, power, and reimagining the role of institutions.

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