MOHAMMED BIN RASHID LIBRARY

About this activity

The Mohammed Bin Rashid Library is a large library in the Al Jaddaf locality of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Dubai Creek that opened to the public

Built in the shape of a rehl, the traditional wooden book rest used to hold the Quran, our library building overlooks Dubai Creek. Our seven story structure houses Dubai’s most ambitious cultural initiative to-date, establishing a lighthouse of knowledge, culture and creativity with an objective to grow a collection by acquiring millions of books from around the world.

Founded by law no. 14 in 2016 during the national Year of Reading , the library is the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Supporting Dubai and UAE goals to develop a knowledge society, the creation of the Mohammed bin Rashid Library follows a number of important initiatives set in motion to promote and encourage reading, literacy and Arabic literature.

Launched in 2014 our library’s primary goal is to stimulate a passion for knowledge among all those living in the United Arab Emirates, in particular among young people. We actively support and encourage reading, research, creativity and entrepreneurship by providing free access to an outstanding range of books and other knowledge resources, quality information services and our event calendar.

We play an important and increasing role in the preservation of Arabic literature, culture and heritage. We do this by ensuring public access to Arabic literary works, both modern and rare old texts, helping to encourage and support young Arabic writers and via our Arabic language publishing programme.

The Mohammed Bin Rashid Library is comprised of ten main library collections: The General Library, Young Adult Library, Children’s Library, Information Centre, Map and Atlas Library, Media and Arts Library, Business Library, Emirates Library, Periodicals Library and a Special Collections Library. In addition to physical collections, our library provides access to a wide variety of ebooks and other digital media.

Our audio book library is a fantastic resource for everyone and especially useful to the visually impaired or those with reading difficulties. In addition, we are developing a range of Braille books for the blind.

We are continually developing our collections, resources, programme and event calendar to be able to share more books, knowledge and information with the community. To make sure that you get full access to all our resources and regular updates from us, we recommend that you sign-up to our library membership programme today.