Dubai-based style icon Nadya Hasan ties the knot in a feathered gown

Nadya Hassan tied the knot with model Wiktor Gniewek this weekend. (Instagram)
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Updated 13 January 2020
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Dubai-based style icon Nadya Hasan ties the knot in a feathered gown

  • The wedding reception is set to take place in Poland this summer

DUBAI: Congratulations are in order for Dubai-based fashion influencer Nadya Hasan who tied the knot with her partner, model Wiktor Gniewek, this weekend, with the wedding reception to follow this summer.

The UAE-born style maven took to Instagram to reveal the exciting news, via a series of portraits photographed by House of Nomad designer Ahmed El-Sayed.

She shared a photograph of herself and her new husband at the Burj Al-Arab with her 213,000 followers, simply captioning the image “Mr & Mrs” alongside a red heart emoji.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Mr & Mrs

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Hasan also offered a peak of the dress she wore to officially get married. The style blogger, who is affectionately known as The Fierce Nay to her legion of loyal followers, chose a beaded, feather-embellished dress from Chateau Modeliste.

She accessorized the look with a Swarovski sequin-embellished Tyler Ellis clutch and jewels from Bulgari.

When it came to her beauty look, Algerian makeup artist Najla Gun was tasked with readying the blushing bride for her big day. Gun dreamed up a bombshell look that comprised of lightly smoked-out lids, thick, brow-grazing eyelashes, defined cheeks and a swipe of pink lipstick.

Her hair was kept in loose, soft waves and adorned with a dazzling headpiece from Lebanese accessories label Aura.

Hasan joins a lineup of other regional fashion influencers who have tied the knot in recent days, including Iraqi style blogger Rania Fawaz, who got married to her longtime partner Sammer Sommer in Dubai in December as well as Palestinian influencer Ola Farahat, who tied the knot back in 2019.

According to Hasan, the newly wed and Gniewek “just got married officially,” and the wedding is slated to take place in Poland, where her husband originally hails from, in July.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

#2019 ... what I am most grateful for is you!

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Hasan has kept her relationship with Gniewek largely under wraps, though she did recently take to Instagram to share a photograph of the duo cozied up together — with half of her new husband’s head strategically missing from the frame — alongside text that read “#2019 ... what I am most grateful for is you!”


Director Kaouther Ben Hania rejects Berlin honor over Gaza

Updated 20 February 2026
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Director Kaouther Ben Hania rejects Berlin honor over Gaza

DUBAI: Kaouther Ben Hania, the Tunisian filmmaker behind “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” refused to accept an award at a Berlin ceremony this week after an Israeli general was recognized at the same event.

The director was due to receive the Most Valuable Film award at the Cinema for Peace gala, held alongside the Berlinale, but chose to leave the prize behind.

On stage, Ben Hania said the moment carried a sense of responsibility rather than celebration. She used her remarks to demand justice and accountability for Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israeli soldiers in Gaza in 2024, along with two paramedics who were shot while trying to reach her.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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“Justice means accountability. Without accountability, there is no peace,” Ben Hania said.

“The Israeli army killed Hind Rajab; killed her family; killed the two paramedics who came to save her, with the complicity of the world’s most powerful governments and institutions,” she said.

“I refuse to let their deaths become a backdrop for a polite speech about peace. Not while the structures that enabled them remain untouched.”

Ben Hania said she would accept the honor “with joy” only when peace is treated as a legal and moral duty, grounded in accountability for genocide.