Al -Marmoum Festival .. An annual epic that embodies the Emirati originality

Dubai, May 11 / WAM / The Al -Marmoum Heritage Festival, which is organized by the Dubai Camel Racing Club, is one of the most prominent annual events in the UAE, which embodies the vision of wise leadership in preserving popular heritage, and enhances camel position as a historical and cultural symbol that sheds light on the lives of parents and grandparents.
The year 2008 witnessed the construction of a special track for camel racing in the Marmoum region, and since then, the region has become known in the city of Dubai Camel Racing, and turned into an integrated destination that combines sports, heritage and tourism.
The Al -Marmoum Square is located in the Si -Salam area in Dubai, and it is one of the largest camel races in the region, and it includes multiple contents ranging from 4 and 15 km, along with training and other official races.
The field includes integrated facilities for guests, owners and consciences, an advanced media center, and specialized laboratories to detect doping and DNA analysis, ensuring the highest levels of transparency and justice in the results of racing, and it was also provided with accurate follow -up techniques that include “Photo Phoeniche” cameras to identify the winners by a second part difference, and smart tracking vehicles to accompany the times during races.
The Al -Marmoum Heritage Festival of Camel is one of the most popular events, as it annually attracts the elite of owners and consciences from the Emirates and the Gulf states, who compete for huge prizes, including luxury cars and large cash prizes, as well as the prestigious gold and silver symbols such as “the sword of the Crown Prince of Dubai”, the cups of the first and the frizzy, and the titles of open and local stages.
The festival activities are held at the heart of the Marmoum Desert Reserve, which is the largest natural reserve that is not marked in the country, and extends over 10% of the Dubai area, and is famous for its wet lakes and lands, such as power lakes, which gives an environmentally unique and tourist dimension to the festival.
The festival represents a live window on the Emirati heritage, and enhances the awareness of new generations of the importance of camels and their role in the history of society, as well as a platform for communication between cultures, through a heritage atmosphere that integrates with popular markets, handicraft shows, and Emirati cuisine, which gives it a distinctive social and humanitarian nature.
Ali Saeed bin Saroud, Executive Director of the Dubai Camel Racing Club, stressed that the Al -Marmum Festival continues to establish its position as one of the most prominent stations in the calendar of Gulf racing, indicating that unlimited support from the rational leadership, and the increasing interest from the owners and consciences, enhances the value of the event year after year.
He said that the continuous development of the festival in the festival in participation and the organizational structure constitutes a motivation to present a qualitative version that keeps pace with the aspirations of the sports fans and camel owners from inside and outside the country.
He added that the 2025 version is witnessing a new addition that enhances the value of competition, by allocating shields to the second and third place owners in the two halves of the Emirates Saif for open strabismus, whether for His Highness the elders or for the tribal sons, in support of the values ​​of excellence and an appreciation of each achievement.
In turn, Matar Ali bin Huwaiden, a member of the Emirates Camel Federation, said that the festival is one of the most prominent heritage events in the region, as it has become an annual destination for lovers of originality, and a field in which the strongest contests compete for the symbols, adding that participating in the festival represents in itself an achievement and law that the camels are proud of.
For his part, Abdullah Ahmed Faraj, Director of the Media, Marketing, Events and Partners ’Relations in the club stressed that sponsors and supporters represent a basic pillar in the success of the festival, praising the depth of strategic partnerships that reflect mutual confidence in his mission, and everyone was keen to support camel sport.
He explained that the activities are witnessing a competition for 44 symbols that represent the peak of challenge, by 16 symbols of the Head of His Highness the elders, and 28 symbols of the tribal people, distributed over different age groups.

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