These postcards borrow images from ‘Spaces That Remain’, a photography exhibition that showcased Jalal Abuthina’s recent works, curated by Rashed Almulla, on the now-vanished neighbourhoods of Shabiyyat Al-Shorta and Al-Defa'a, built in the late 1970s. 

Our latest publication provides a sociological analysis of their historical context and architectural insights into the neighbourhoods and documents the exhibitions in both the Mosque of Reflection (2022) and Bayt Almamzar (2023). City Walk Dubai has since replaced these neighbourhoods.

Jalal Abuthina, SWALIF, MABNAI ©️2024

• "Talal Supermarket with Burj Khalifa under construction." (2007)
• "Abdulsalam AlRafi Mosque juxtaposed to the Address Hotel and Burj Khalifa." (2012)
• "Palm trees between the alleyways of Shaabiyah Al-Defaa’." (2012)
• "Palm trees between the alleyways of Shaabiyah Al-Defaa’." (2012)
• "A boy running towards Burj Khalifa, viewed from Shaabiyah Al-Defaa’." (2013)

Designed by: Khaled Esguerra