‘Zurob’s works explore the way in which exile renders certain modes of travel irrelevant and eliminates the possibility of certain shared spaces’

A conversation with renowned Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli about ‘Safar’, a major upcoming exhibition of contemporary Middle Eastern art in Canada

Joobin Bekhrad talks to acclaimed Saudi artist Manal Al Dowayan about the works in her retrospective exhibition at Jeddah’s Athr Gallery

Mario El Khoury on the sights and sounds of the exhibitions, symposiums, and cultural events of February’s groundbreaking Jeddah Art Week

‘Her work becomes a passing reminder that the past is not history yet, but merely the debris of the present’ – Arie Akkermans on the art of Devrim Kadirbeyoğlu

A conversation with Mona Shomali and Haleh Jamali, two artists exploring female Iranian identity in a collaborative exhibition at the Asian Arts Initiative

A multimedia exhibition on display at London’s Mosaic Rooms highlighting the little-known story of the Yemeni sailors of South Shields

‘Karam’s figures are sublime, mentally, ideologically, and physically transcending the socio-historical pressures of Lebanon’

‘In this life I was stripped of my humanity, but I have retrieved what is more sublime, more noble, through my dreams’ – Halim Al Karim