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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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MENA Local Heroes: Listen Now To the Fifth Edition By Karen Beyrouty
A visual, nostalgic and slightly romantic playlist for old souls, dreamers and people who feel too much
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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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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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Syria Has Never Had an Art Week. That Changes This September
47 artists, one mysterious Damascus landmark and Line Kouwatli on a new chapter for Syrian art
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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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What Happens To Childhood When You Become an Artist?
Five artists turning childhood memories and experiences into wonderfully different forms of art
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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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The Hidden Layers Of Nour Hage’s Art, Explained By the Artist Herself
Four works, four stories, and a small experiment proving that great art always has hundreds of hidden layers
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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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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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Beyond Recycling: When Waste Becomes Art
Five artists proving that discarded materials carry far more than environmental meaning
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Forget the Algorithm. We Asked Artists What To Watch Instead
5 films that changed the way artists see the world
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MENA Local Heroes: Listen Now To the Third Edition By Noura AlKhalaf
A high-energy soundtrack for movement, momentum, and feeling absolutely impossible to stop
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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
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Finding Calm In Islamic Geometry: Talking To Noor Abuissa
Qatari artist Noor Abuissa on building Qatar's art scene — and becoming part of it
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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