Talents
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Face To Know: Monira Al Qadiri, From Oil Drills To a Five-Metre Scarab
She turns the machinery and myths of the Gulf into sculptures you are unlikely to forget
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Looking Back At a Happier Syria With Photographer Hasan Belal
See what those old family photographs can tell us about everything that changed in between
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This Young Iraqi Artist Paints a House He Left Seven Years Ago
Childhood memories, a changing Baghdad and a first solo show — inside the world of Iraqi artist Ali Aqeel
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The Egypt You Will Never Find On a Postcard: Meet Illustrator Amira Tanany
Saudi landscapes, Japanese mythology, and Egyptian folklore — inside the worlds of Amira Tanany’s illustrations
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'distance minimaliste': Evenings for Music You Have Probably Never Heard Before
Come to hear music on a proper sound system and discover tracks that might otherwise stay buried in DJs’ and diggers’ collections
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Why Do Miriam Dema’s Paintings Keep Coming Back To the Table?
On leaving art, finding her way back, and the grandmother who still lives in her paintings
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Fuad And Raha, Duette+: “We Are Programming Reasons For People To Come Back”
How Raha and Fuad turned a private rooftop community into one of Dubai’s buzziest creative spaces
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Photographers Who Put Cats At The Centre Of Their Work
From cats telling stories of displacement to 116 street cats photographed in Tehran
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From Olive Trees To Folktales: Palestinian Artists Exploring Heritage
How a place keeps living through image, story and form
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Karma Bint Abbas: “Whatever I Am Going Through, Art Is What I Come Back To”
From the school desk to a New York solo show: Karma Bint Abbas on finding her own artistic language
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Mehrdad Mosaferi: “I Don’t Want My Work to Pretend I Am Someone I Am Not”
How loss, the sea, and the people of the Persian Gulf shaped Mehrdad’s practice
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For Claudette: How Raya Kassisieh Keeps Her Grandmother’s Memory Alive
The true stories behind Raya’s masterpieces: Heavy Petals, Heavy Petals II, and Wharda
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Meet Ishaq Madan: The Photographer Bridging Bahrain And the Rest Of the World
Bahrain, stereotypes, sonder and a little rule-breaking: inside Ishaq Madan’s world of photography.
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How Research Turned Fashion Into Art: Talking To Nour Hage
How childhood curiosity, Beirut's revival and a love of textiles led Nour Hage to contemporary art
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Yemeni Photographers To Discover
Turns out, a camera is the only thing these artists have in common
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Abdulmohsen Al Rowais: “I Am Trying To Be Part Of History”
In Abdul's hands, an old photo becomes a message to the future
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Searching For Libya's Collective Identity Thousands Of Years Back: Meet Shefa Salem
The contemporary Libyan artist on war, prehistoric rock art, and why the past may hold the key to the present
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Building a Platform For Omani Youth. Interview With Nadeen Al Towaiya
From an Instagram page to a new creative movement in Oman
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Contemporary Syrian Artists Turning Memory Into Art
Four artists whose personal histories have shaped the works they create
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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 can't fully erase