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Generation after Generation, 2019, Digital Print, 236.2 x 584.2 cm. Courtesy of Ayyam Gallery

SAMA ALSHAIBI – REIMAGINING THE ARAB WOMAN

Sama Alshaibi’s powerful exhibit at Ayyam Gallery in Dubai Sama Alshaibi’s newest body of work from her solo exhibition, Staging the Imagined, reflects the relationships of power and authority between photographer and subject. The work investigates how a particular historical…

Dr Ramzi Dalloul Portrait

CURATED BY DR RAMZI DALLOUL

Selections Magazine has asked Lebanese-Palestinian art connoisseur and collector Ramzi Dalloul, founder of the Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation (DAF), to select 35 artworks from over 4000 acquisitions he has ardently accumulated over the last four decades. Alas, a…

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Throughout the mid- and late 1960s, Dia al-Azzawi’s artistic journey intersected profoundly with Lebanon, specifically Beirut, a period that not only influenced his craft but also broadened his artistic horizons in unprecedented ways. Born in Baghdad in 1939, Azzawi’s early…

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