Selected Press

ELIAS IZOLI : QUAND LE CIRQUE DÉVOILE NOS FRAGILITÉS

Le rire qui se fige, le maquillage qui coule, la fête qui révèle ses zones d’ombre. Chez Elias Izoli, peintre syrien né à Damas en 1976, le cirque n’a rien d’un divertissement anodin. C’est la grande métaphore de nos existences : un lieu où tout tremble,

Eve Kaplan, Acumen Magazine, October 7, 2025

Must-See Dubai Exhibitions: Ishara Art Foundation, Green Art Gallery, and More

On the occasion of Art Dubai, delve into fascinating presentations on view throughout the city from pioneering galleries including Lawrie Shabibi, Green Art Gallery, Ayyam Gallery, and more. Visitors can look forward to sensorial installations, site-speci

Erica Silverman, Whitewall.art, April 18, 2025

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Selected Press

Artist Elias Izoli depicts life in Bashar Al Assad's Syria as a sad circus

At the Fire’s Edge: How Ali Kaaf Turns Absence into Art at Dubai’s Ayyam Gallery

Ayyam Gallery Presents Sama Alshaibi’s Work at Paris Photo 2025

ELIAS IZOLI : QUAND LE CIRQUE DÉVOILE NOS FRAGILITÉS

The Best Art Exhibitions To Visit This October

ATHAR JABER

A trip to Palestine through art

UAE art guide: 12 museum and gallery exhibitions to see, including contemporary tatreez artworks

INSIDE OUT ‘25: ELIAS IZOLI RETURNS TO PAINTING

Sharjah's Maraya Art Centre unveils powerful Palestinian tatreez exploration SILA

15 Contemporary Syrian Artists You Need to Follow

Inside Out 2025 by Elias Izoli at Ayyam Gallery Dubai

The Culture Edit: The Must-See Exhibitions of August 2025

Aftermath

Expect Palestinian Artist Samia Halaby’s Market Rise to Continue This Fall

The Best Art Exhibitions to Visit This August

Heat of the Moment: Ocula’s Pick of August’s Exhibitions

Wavering Hope at Ayyam Gallery, Dubai

An exhibition of Syrian artists opens at Ayyam Gallery

Enduring the Storm: A Decade and a Half of Syrian Artistic Resilience

Syria and the Future of Art: an Intimate Portrait

WAVERING HOPE: WHAT REMAINS, WHAT RETURNS

On the Importance of Setting a Dot on the Horizon – The Not Entirely Successful Mission of New New Babylon at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag

Sama Alshaibi

Two Decades of Cultural Anchoring

L’existence même du peuple palestinien en jeu

Gaza ou la faillite de l’Occident

Vers un nouvel ordre régional au Proche-Orient

Echoes of a Re-imagined City

Thaier Helal | Interview with Bashir Al Bakr

Exhibition Of The Month: طرس (Tterss)

Return to Iraq: Sama Alshaibi’s ‘طرس’

Weekly UAE museum and gallery guide: Must-see exhibitions by Sama Alshaibi and Shilpa Gupta

Must-See Dubai Exhibitions: Ishara Art Foundation, Green Art Gallery, and More

MAKING STONE SPEAK

The 11 Best Things to Do in Dubai in April

Embracing Identity, Culture, and Heritage

Athar Jaber, the Acclaimed Iraqi-Dutch Sculptor, Is Finally Feeling at Home in Abu Dhabi

Discomfort and awe at Athar Jaber's first Dubai exhibition

Five Interesting Artworks to Explore at the Inaugural Edition of Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial

Exhibition explores creative links between Iraq and Saudi Arabia

2024 in Review: Nine of the Best Arab Art Exhibitions Around the World.

Monopol Magazine In Conversation with Tammam Azzam

SAMIA HALABY FEATURED IN ELECTRIC DREAMS EXHIBITION AT THE TATE MODERN AND OUTERNET LONDON

THAIER HELAL ABOUT ‘NAVIGATING THROUGH NOTHING’ AT AYYAM GALLERY

Six Artists Open Up About Voting in the US Election | Featuring Sama Alshaibi

A Retrospective Reimagining Middle Eastern Feminism with Leila Nseir at Ayyam Gallery Dubai

What To Do in Dubai This Month? The October 2024 Edit

‘ISTORIA: A RETROSPECTIVE REIMAGINING MIDDLE EASTERN FEMINISM WITH LEILA NSEIR’ AT AYYAM GALLERY

Sadik Kwaish Alfraji in Canvas Magazine

Faisal Samra: ‘If I’m not an artist, then I don’t exist’

BEING SAMIA HALABY: ARTISTIC PRACTICES: ON THE SINUOUS PATH FROM INSPIRATION TO IMPLEMENTATION: THE ART OF PAINTING INVADES MY CLOTHES

MEET THE PALESTINIAN PHOTOGRAPHER DOCUMENTING HISTORY THROUGH HER ART

Sculptures tell story of war whose atrocities linger in the lives of millions in Middle East

The best art on show in the UAE this weekend: Six things to see and do

EXHIBITION OF THE MONTH: LENS & LIGHT: MOMENTS IN FOCUS

‘LENS & LIGHT: MOMENTS IN FOCUS’ AT AYYAM GALLERY DUBAI

Sama Alshaibi's tribute to women who carry all the burdens of the world on their heads

True Photo Journal Interview with Rula Halawani

‘THE INFINITE & THE FINITE’ BY KHALED AKIL AT AYYAM GALLERY

Khaled Akil on his first solo exhibition in the UAE, which took two years to complete

Vogue Living Arabia

Arab-American Heritage Month: Sama Alshaibi — ‘I’m trying to change this idea of what an Arab woman is’

Tammam Azzam

CHARCOAL, INK AND A DONKEY BY SADIK KWAISH ALFRAJI AT GALERIE TANIT, BEIRUT

Abu Dhabi’s Bassam Freiha Art Foundation Makes a Mark With Its Striking Architecture

«مُختارات» لسمره.. رؤى عما يشكله الحشد والتوغل في النفس

Faisal Samra Immortalises Shock Through Ayyam Gallery Exhibition

7 highlights from this year’s Desert X AlUla

Palestinian artist Rula Halawani on life under occupation, and bringing her pictures to Cork

Desert X AlUla Reveals Artist List For 2024 Edition

These Are the Artists in the 2024 Venice Biennale

Syrian artist Tammam Azzam grapples with man-made destruction in latest exhibition

Indiana University Cancels Major Exhibition of Palestinian Artist

University Cancels Palestinian Artist’s Retrospective

Indiana University Cancels Palestinian Artist Samia Halaby’s Exhibition

Indiana University Cancels Survey for Palestinian Painter Samia Halaby

Sami Samawi’s AI Art Depicts Mediated Experience of Gaza War

Ayyam Gallery raising a fund of support for Palestine with event