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Alexandra Mansilla
Always searching for ideas, inspiration, and talented people. In love with cartoons, sun, and Ted Lasso
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Ahmad Tallaa: What We Live Through Becomes Visible
The face becomes a living archive, preserving the emotional traces of experiences that time cannot fully erase
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Artists Inspired By the Sands Of the Desert
Beyond its silence and vastness, the desert holds stories — and these artists know how to reveal them
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How Female Saudi Architects Are Reshaping the Creative Landscape
While Saudi Arabia races to build the future, these women are making sure it remembers its past
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Your Week In Dubai: What To Do, July 7–12
From Amitabh Bachchan to Saud G, and from orange-hued art to vinyl listening sessions
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Nigerian Artists Shaping Contemporary Art Today
Working with charcoal, textiles, paper, paint and wire, these artists give material its own voice
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What the Objects In Our Homes Say About Us
The things we surround ourselves with often become the most honest reflection of who we are
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What Locals Do When Expats Leave For Summer
No, they don't spend the whole summer hiding at home or in malls
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Building Human Connections Through Photography. Interview With Annissa Durar
From the mountains of Peru to the villages of North Africa, photography became a way to tell human stories
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Your Week In Dubai: What To Do, June 30–July 6
New exhibitions, a New York-style deli, a communal dinner and a workshop preserving Gulf history
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Where To Find Fresh Bread And Flaky Pastries In Cairo
Crusty loaves, buttery pastries and enough carbs to make you happy
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Artists For Whom Hair Is the Whole Point
From childhood braids to bronze sculptures to keffiyehs woven with human hair
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Social Media Is Now Banned For Kids Under 15. What Do Parents Think?
Three moms, three takes on the new under-15 social media ban
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The Business Side Of Being a Creative In the Middle East
Being good at what you do is just the starting point — here is the rest
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Your Week In Dubai: What To Do, June 23–29
From a hotel room turned archive to a chef cooking in a skate shop
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The Obnoxiously Yellow Store In Alserkal. Who Is Behind H5 Lab?
How a Tumblr obsession was turned into a space for archival fashion and regional talent
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Sudanese Artists Who Are Painting Through the Chaos
The ones who keep creating, no matter the circumstances around them
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Thinking Through Childhood And Experiences. The Story Of Khalid Jauffer
A journey of self-discovery, where the artist learns to be honest with himself and his work
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Your Week In Dubai: What To Do, June 16–21
From a football pop-up at Alserkal to a group show that asks who Dubai is really made of
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What Is Table Sonor? Parvané Is Cooking Up a New Project
Discover the listening table Parvané is working on and why she felt compelled to bring it to life
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Hana El-Sagini on "Plot Twist": A Project About Resilience At Art Basel
How the artist muted her bronze and turned a material built for monuments into something fragile