Events Country February 02, 2025

Celebrating Heritage at Al Dhafra Festival

The Al Dhafra Festival showcases the UAE's rich heritage, featuring traditional games and falconry. Generations embrace the past in a vibrant cultural event.


Celebrating Heritage at Al Dhafra Festival

At the event in Zahra, a demonstration program took place, on which one of the participants sent a photo of a bird's wings in flight. This moment became a bright example of transferring traditions from one generation to another in the OAA.

The events in Zahra were held with the aim of reviving childhood, which transcends the boundaries of time, and to resurrect the past, forever engraved in hearts. In the dominion of technology and video games, the festival grounds once again brought to life childhood games, such as "crebby", "matarah", "fishing catcher" and "yanbur", which were part of the everyday life of children and youth.

Even the girls found places for themselves in this celebration of folk games, as games like skipping through a hoop, rolling a wheel from a barrel, tug-of-war with a cane, and jumping showcased all the tenderness of childhood. At every step of the festival, the echoes of the past resonated, inspiring life in national heritage, not yielding to oblivion.