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Sara Shamma—Cleaving the World in Two

Sara Shamma—Cleaving the World in Two

After living in London and Beirut, Sara Shamma returned to Damascus, where her hyperrealistic paintings reflect the chaos...

SEPTEMBER 5, 2025 • By Jordan Elgrably
Syria and the Future of Art: an Intimate Portrait

Syria and the Future of Art: an Intimate Portrait

Following the banishment of Bashar Al-Assad, Syrian artists are starting to return and exhibit new work at home...

JULY 4, 2025 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Iraq’s Kurdish Genocide and Three Wars: Artists Osman Ahmed & Fakher Mohammed

Iraq’s Kurdish Genocide and Three Wars: Artists Osman Ahmed & Fakher Mohammed

A joint Arab/Kurdish exhibition at Baghdad’s The Gallery showcased how the nation’s two solitudes can unite through art.

JUNE 6, 2025 • By Hadani Ditmars
Going Home to South Lebanon: Abdel Hamid Baalbaki

Going Home to South Lebanon: Abdel Hamid Baalbaki

The Sursock Museum in Beirut presents "Ode to the South," a tribute exhibition to the late Abdel Hamid...

MAY 2, 2025 • By Karina El Helou
Mous Lamrabat

Mous Lamrabat

In his latest solo exhibition, Mous Lamrabat delves deep into the emotional weight of displacement, memory, identity and...

MARCH 7, 2025 • By Naima Morelli
Mostafa Nodeh: Featured Artist Interview

Mostafa Nodeh: Featured Artist Interview

Shooting in black and white with a minimalist approach, Iranian photographer Mostafa Nodeh transcends boundaries of identity and...

FEBRUARY 7, 2025 • By Mostafa Nodeh
Palestine Features in Larissa Sansour’s Sci-Fi Future

Palestine Features in Larissa Sansour’s Sci-Fi Future

Larissa Sansour is a Palestinian-born artist whose photography, film, sculpture, and installation art is bound up with visions...

DECEMBER 6, 2024 • By Larissa Sansour
Lin May Saeed

Lin May Saeed

The November 2024 featured artist is the late German-Iraqi sculptor Lin May Saeed, much of whose work celebrated...

NOVEMBER 1, 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Khaled Jarrar: Artist At Work

Khaled Jarrar: Artist At Work

Jenin artist Khaled Jarrar deploys photography, video, installations, films and performative interventions to explore contemporary power dynamics and...

OCTOBER 4, 2024 • By Khaled Jarrar
Featured Artists: “Barred From Home”

Featured Artists: “Barred From Home”

Refugee camps, control, and dispossessed lives by artists Heba Tannous, Mahmoud Alhaj, Tayseer Barakat, Alaa Albaba, and photographer...

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Deena Mohamed

Deena Mohamed

Featured artist Deena Mohamed is an accomplished Egyptian graphic novelist and author of the fantasy trilogy "Shubeik Lubeik"...

JULY 5, 2024 • By Katie Logan
Featured Artist Hazem Harb: “Back to Zero”

Featured Artist Hazem Harb: “Back to Zero”

Gazan artist Hazem Harb remembers and celebrates the old, new, destroyed, erased and dead of Palestine in a...

MAY 3, 2024 • By Malu Halasa
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