{"id":7618,"date":"2017-10-07T12:19:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T12:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=7618"},"modified":"2017-10-07T12:19:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T12:19:48","slug":"dubai-duty-free-helps-bring-a-taste-of-arabia-to-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/dubai-duty-free-helps-bring-a-taste-of-arabia-to-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Duty Free Helps Bring A Taste Of Arabia To Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai Duty Free, the largest airport retailer in the world, has put its weight behind The Dublin Arabic Film Festival (DAFF) and will be the presenting sponsor of the festival for the fourth year. The film festival, which got underway at the Irish Film Institute (IFI) yesterday is the brain child of multi Oscar nominated film maker, Jim Sheridan and Festival Director Zahara Moufid and has been curated in conjunction with the Irish Film Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Screen tourism to Ireland is a growing trend according to the island of Ireland\u2019s marketing body, Tourism Ireland. Between 65,000 to 75,000 travellers from the GCC visited Ireland in 2016, up 8% on the year before. Of those GCC travellers, the UAE is the biggest market, with 65% of GCC visitors coming from the Emirates. Popular series such as Game of Thrones and the latest series of Star Wars films have been shot at various locations in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, providing a welcome boost to tourism economy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Sinead-El-Sibai-Jim-Sheridan-Zahara-Moufid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7619\" alt=\"Sinead El Sibai, Jim Sheridan, Zahara Moufid\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Sinead-El-Sibai-Jim-Sheridan-Zahara-Moufid-682x1024.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Sinead-El-Sibai-Jim-Sheridan-Zahara-Moufid-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Sinead-El-Sibai-Jim-Sheridan-Zahara-Moufid-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Sinead-El-Sibai-Jim-Sheridan-Zahara-Moufid-624x935.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Sinead-El-Sibai-Jim-Sheridan-Zahara-Moufid.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DAFF, Presented by Dubai Duty Free, runs from this Friday, 6th of October until the 8th of October.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 For more details or to purchase tickets see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dublinarabicfilmfestival.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.dublinarabicfilmfestival.ie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai Duty Free, the largest airport retailer in the world, has put its weight behind The Dublin Arabic Film Festival (DAFF) and will be the presenting sponsor of the festival for the fourth year. The film festival, which got underway at the Irish Film Institute (IFI) yesterday is the brain child of multi Oscar nominated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618","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=7618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7620,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618\/revisions\/7620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}