Watch the first part of the AHEAD Middle East and Africa awards 2020 virtual ceremony.

AHEAD is announcing the best new hotel designs in the Middle East and Africa region today, in a video ceremony broadcast by Dezeen for the hospitality awards programme.

The ceremony will be broadcast in two parts from 2:00pm Dubai time, which is 12:00pm South Africa time and 10am UK time, and can be viewed in order below. The most recent part of the ceremony is also included at the top of this story.

The event is hosted by Sleeper Magazine's editor-at-large Guy Dittrich, and will feature exclusive video content from the AHEAD nominees, as well as from the judges and sponsors of the awards programme.

The AHEAD awards celebrate striking hospitality projects from across the world and is split into four different regions: Middle East and Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe.

The 2020 Middle East and Africa leg of the competition will review projects that have opened, reopened or launched in the continent between January 2019 and February of this year.

Thumbnail image: ME Dubai at Opus

WATCH PART TWO - https://youtu.be/XkenemQoHbg

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