{"id":1176,"date":"2010-12-01T21:24:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T17:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2010-12-01T21:25:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T17:25:13","slug":"ahlan-best-in-dubai-night-at-the-royal-meridian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=1176","title":{"rendered":"Ahlan Best In Dubai Night at Le Royal Meridien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night we attended the gala event for the announcement of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestindubai.ae\/\" target=\"blank\">Ahlan Best in Dubai<\/a> awards for 2010. The<a href=\"http:\/\/landartgenerator.org\" target=\"blank\"> Land Art Generator Initiative<\/a> was shortlisted which is just like being nominated at the Academy Awards. You get to attend the final event, but you may not get called to the stage. Also nominated in THREE categories (wow) was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejamjardubai.com\/\" target=\"blank\">The JamJar Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010.11.30.02.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010.11.30.03.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010.11.30.06.jpg\"><br \/>\nThere we are! OK we didn&#8217;t win, but we were up against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eeg-uae.org\/\" target=\"blank\">Emirates Environmental Group<\/a> and they really accomplish amazing environmental work with clean-ups, recycling programs, educational events, conferences&#8230;you name it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010.11.30.07.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010.11.30.08.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010.11.30.10.jpg\"><br \/>\nWe love The JamJar team! Unlike LAGI, they had a good chance of actually winning (and really should have) for &#8220;best gallery&#8221;, &#8220;best cultural initiative&#8221; for the Art Bus, and <a href=\"http:\/\/artinthecity.com\" target=\"blank\">artinthecity.com<\/a> for &#8220;best website&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010.11.30.12.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010.11.30.13.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010.11.30.14.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010.11.30.15.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010.11.30.16.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010.11.30.20.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night we attended the gala event for the announcement of the Ahlan Best in Dubai awards for 2010. The Land Art Generator Initiative was shortlisted which is just like being nominated at the Academy Awards. You get to attend the final event, but you may not get called to the stage. Also nominated in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=1176\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ahlan Best In Dubai Night at Le Royal Meridien&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}