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Ciarb UAE Branch is pleased to offer an opportunity to sponsor our event during Dubai Arbitration Week 2025.

Event date: 10 November 2025

Location: Waldorf Astoria DIFC

Time: 2 pm - 4 pm

To express your interest as a sponsor or for further details please reach out to our Events Coordinator Mohieeldin Elbana - mohieeldin@qaflegal.com

Best Wishes,

Ciarb UAE Branch

We are delighted to invite you to the CIArb Young Members Group Annual Debate Series, taking place during Dubai Arbitration Week.

Event Details:

Date: Monday, 10 November 2025
Time: 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Venue: Waldorf Astoria, DIFC

Programme Highlights:

The event will bring together distinguished young professionals and subject matter experts to debate four pressing topics in arbitration:

• Debate 1: Tribunal-appointed experts provide greater impartiality than party-appointed experts
• Debate 2: Mediation should be mandatory before arbitration proceedings
• Debate 3: Arbitral institutions should impose mandatory diversity quotas for appointments
• Debate 4: Arbitrators should be allowed to use AI in their decision-making

Schedule:

• 9:30 AM – Networking
• 9:50 AM – Opening Remarks
• 10:00 AM – Debates 1 to 4
• 12:00 PM – Standing Buffet Lunch

Registration:

This is a complimentary in-person event. To register your interest email jc_ciarb@yahoo.com.

We look forward to seeing you there for what promises to be an engaging and thought-provoking morning of debate and discussion.

Speaker announcements will follow through our Linkedin channels.

Kind regards,

Ciarb YMG

Dear Members,

We are excited to introduce the newly elected Committee of the UAE Branch of Ciarb. Together, this group brings experience, energy, and a shared commitment to advancing the effectiveness of dispute resolution in the UAE and beyond.

Your 2025 Committee

• Co-Chairs: Reshma Oogorah FCIArb & Kasia Halliday FCIArb
• Dubai Vice-Chair: Zeina Obeid FCIArb
• Abu Dhabi Vice-Chair: Maria Mazzawi FCIArb
• Honorary Secretary: Soraya Corm-Bakhos FCIArb
• Honorary Treasurer (Co-opted): Juan Olwagen FCIArb
• Education & Training Officer: Kate Blotskaya MCIArb
• Public Relations Officer: Hannah Dennehy ACIArb
• Event Coordinator (Co-opted): Mohieeldin Elbana MCIArb
• Webmaster: Haitham Mokhtar MCIArb
• Data Manager: Monif Lotfy FCIArb
• Membership Secretary: Glenn Trueick FCIArb
• Committee Members:
• Robert Sliwinski C.Arb FCIArb (Immediate Past Chair)
• Aarta Alkarimi C.Arb FCIArb
• Jonathan Sutcliffe FCIArb
• Hiba Al Abiad FCIArb
• Mohamed Amara FCIArb
• Additional Co-opted Members:
• Melissa McLaren MCIArb (Co-Chair of the Ciarb UAE Young Members Group)
• Mike Caddick FCIArb (Co-Chair of the Ciarb UAE Young Members Group)

The Committee’s priorities include:

• Serving our members by putting their needs at the heart of our work
• Enhancing training and learning opportunities, including Arabic language courses and mediation
• Delivering engaging events and networking platforms to connect its members
• Strengthening partnerships across the ADR community
• Promoting diversity, inclusion, and innovation in practice

To help us shape the future, we will be surveying members in the coming weeks. Please do share your feedback and ideas to help us move in the right direction.

We look forward to your active participation in shaping the years ahead.

Warm regards,

Ciarb UAE Branch

Please click on the link below to view the news letter

https://mailchi.mp/426570a5a54a/welcome-to-the-ciarb-uae-branch-newsletter-july-10596679?e=38cfe7f877

Waldorf Astoria Dubai International Financial Centre

14 November 2024

Dubai Arbitration Week (DAW) attracts an increasing number of professional practitioners from around the world with a wide variety of experience in dispute resolution. DAW offered 150 events on a range of topics and Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) welcomed approximately 1,500 attendees.

Ciarb UAE Branch delivered two panel discussions during the week. This first session featured:

Keynote from Jonathan Wood FCIArb
Moderator: Robert Sliwinski C.Arb FCIArb
Speakers:
Dr. Mohamed Amara
Julian Cohen FCIArb
Tariq Khan
Maria Mazzawi FCIArb
Ema Saeed
Paul Thornton
Closing remarks from Aarta Alkarimi C.Arb FCIArb

Waldorf Astoria Dubai International Financial Centre

14 November 2024

Dubai Arbitration Week (DAW) attracts an increasing number of professional practitioners from around the world with a wide variety of experience in dispute resolution. DAW offered 150 events on a range of topics and Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) welcomed approximately 1,500 attendees.

Ciarb UAE Branch delivered two panel discussions during the week. This second session featured:

Keynote from Stavros Brekoulakis
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Nayla Comair-Obeid C.Arb FCIArb
Speakers:
Andrea Carlevaris
Don Jeon
Noradele Ghubril Radjai
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Abdel Wahab C.Arb FCIArb
Closing remarks from Dr. Gordon Blanke MCIArb

Ritz Carlton, Dubai

14 November 2024

Ciarb UAE Branch supported the launch of the Mediation Hub MENA during Dubai Arbitration Week. The Mediation Hub MENA extended their gratitude to Ciarb UAE Branch and The Law for their support, and announced exciting future plans and initiatives.

Speakers:
Ziad Ali - CEO, The Law
Ahmad Alozn – Co-founder, Mediation Hub MENA
Christine Maksoud MCIArb – Founder and Director, Mediation Hub MENA
Abdallah El Shehaby FCIArb – Partner, Jurisera
Robert Sliwinski C.Arb FCIArb – Chair, Ciarb UAE Branch

At Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel in the DIFC, Dubai

2 July 2024

The AGM, which approved the election of members to the Branch Committee for 2024, was attended by 30 members in person with others joining online.

Seminar presented by LexisNexis Legal: 

There was also a seminar presented by Calum Birse from LexisNexis Legal & Professional, on their newly developed Lexis+ AI, which they consider to be the fastest legal generative AI with conversational search, drafting, summarization, document analysis, and misleading results-free linked legal citations.

Al Aidarous, ADGM office in Abu Dhabi
4 July 2024

The presentation included a discussion of the UAE Federal Decree Law No. 40 of 2023, concerning mediation and conciliation in civil and commercial disputes.

Speakers: 
Hashem AlAidarous
Haitham Mokhta
Robert Sliwinski C.Arb FCIArb
Sean Yates FCIArb
Wolf von Kumberg FCIArb

Waldorf Astoria, Dubai International Financial Center

16 November 2022

The Young Members Group UAE Branch Debates saw lively discussions focusing on pressing industry topics.

Read more.

Glenn Trueick FCIArb was interviewed about the activities and plans of the Ciarb UAE Branch in 2022.

Read more.

Waldorf Astoria, Dubai International Financial Center

15 November 2022

This one-day conference focused on energy disputes, covering topics including boundary disputes, and commercial, pipeline and energy transportation disputes.

Read more

This article followed a successful joint event held by the Ciarb UAE Branch and Ciarb Iberian Chapter. The authors explore changes to ADR institutions and rules in the two jurisdictions, analysing the similarities and differences to identify prevalent trends.

Read more.