US Iraqi beauty mogul Mona Kattan to appear in season 2 of ‘Dubai Bling’

The entrepreneur said that she will be among eight other self-made millionaires. (AFP)
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Updated 10 February 2023
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US Iraqi beauty mogul Mona Kattan to appear in season 2 of ‘Dubai Bling’

DUBAI: US Iraqi beauty mogul Mona Kattan confirmed on Friday that she will join the cast for the second season of Netflix’s hit show “Dubai Bling.”

The entrepreneur, who is the sister of entrepreneur and makeup artist Huda Kattan, said on Instagram that she will be among eight other self-made millionaires. 

Details about the new season, including the release date and the cast, are yet to be announced.

The first season screened on Netflix in October, and became one of the most talked about shows across the internet with its depiction of Dubai’s melting pot of cultures.

According to Netflix, it was the platform’s third most-watched non-English TV show on the week of its release. 

The program has been praised for its ability to attract a multicultural audience thanks to its diverse cast, as well as merging English and Arabic dialogue, often in the same sentence.

The reality TV show featured 10 cast members from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Kuwait and Iraq, as well as expatriates from India, Australia and the UK.


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.