Majlis Ghorfat Umm Al Sheif, Preserved summer majlis in Jumeirah 2, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Majlis Ghorfat Umm Al Sheif is Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum's preserved summerhouse in Jumeirah 2, built in 1955. It has two floors: a ground floor with an open hall on supporting columns, and an upper majlis seating fifty people, fitted with a cooling and ventilation system. Coral stone from the sea, gypsum, sarooj mortar, kandal wood and palm fronds make up the structure.

Built in 1955, the structure served as a summer residence where major conversations about Dubai's expansion and governance took place. It represents the era before the city's rapid urban transformation began.

The name refers to the Umm Al Sheif pearl fishery, not to a person; the majlis takes its name from that pearling ground. Inside, the restored ground-floor hall holds a traditional Arab majlis with utensils for preparing food and coffee, and the upper hall seats fifty people.

The majlis stands in Jumeirah 2 near the beach, about 20 minutes by car from Palm Jumeirah, 17 from Burj Al Arab and 14 from Downtown Dubai. The restored grounds add a shaded arbour and water basins modelled on traditional date-palm farm irrigation, plus washrooms and irrigation paths.

The name Ghorfat Umm Al Sheif comes from a pearl fishery of the same name, not from Sheikh Rashid's mother. The upper majlis hall holds fifty people, and the roof terrace was used both to dry dates and as an open-air sleeping platform on hot nights.