{"id":13634,"date":"2018-09-20T17:28:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T13:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=13634"},"modified":"2018-09-20T17:28:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T13:28:58","slug":"dragon-mart-and-ibn-battuta-mall-celebrate-saudi-national-day-with-exciting-line-up-of-cultural-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/dragon-mart-and-ibn-battuta-mall-celebrate-saudi-national-day-with-exciting-line-up-of-cultural-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Mart And Ibn Battuta Mall Celebrate Saudi National Day With Exciting Line-Up Of Cultural Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dragon Mart and Ibn Battuta Mall will celebrate the 88<sup>th<\/sup> Saudi National Day this weekend, with a variety of traditional activities and live performances from 21 to 23 September.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dragon Mart: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The festivities feature Ardah folklore dance performances by Saudi band, Al Saree on 22 September at Dragon Mart 2 from 8pm until 11pm. A traditional Ardah dance is performed by two rows of men standing across each other, wielding a cane or sword, to the beat of drums and spoken poetry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ibn Battuta Mall:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Celebrations feature traditional Saudi sword dance performances on 21 September. Timings are 5.45pm India Court; 6.45pm Persia Court; 8pm Egypt Court and 9pm Tunisia Court.<\/p>\n<p>A roaming parade by Arabic folk dancers accompanied by musicians is scheduled on 22 September. Timings are 5.40pm India Court; 6.40pm Persia Court; 7.50pm Egypt Court and 8.50pm Tunisia Court.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors can also enjoy complimentary Arabic coffee and dates at India Court on 21 and 22 September from 5:30pm until 9:30 pm. UAE and KSA flags will also be distributed at the customer service desks from 21 to 23 September.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13635\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/J1-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"122\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragon Mart and Ibn Battuta Mall will celebrate the 88th Saudi National Day this weekend, with a variety of traditional activities and live performances from 21 to 23 September. Dragon Mart: The festivities feature Ardah folklore dance performances by Saudi band, Al Saree on 22 September at Dragon Mart 2 from 8pm until 11pm. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13637,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13634\/revisions\/13637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}