Articles By: Rahel Aima

ArtReview
Promise and Aftermath: Group Show at SAMoCA
In Ayman Yossri Daydaban’s performance Standing (2012-26), the artist strolls along Jeddah’s corniche and through other public…
Rahel Aima
3 min read
ArtReview
Ancestral Pulse: Manal AlDowayan at AlUla Arts Festival 2025
On a cold January night in AlUla, under a magnificent canopy of stars, Thikra: A Night…
Rahel Aima
3 min read
ArtEventsReview
Spiritual Resonance: Islamic Arts Biennale 2025
Under the iconic tented canopies of the Western Hajj Terminal in Jeddah, the Islamic Arts…
Rahel Aima
4 Min read
ArtReview
Home-grown: Group show at Misk Art Institute
Nobody quite agrees what post-internet art was, only that it’s already over. Coined in 2006…
Rahel Aima
3 min read
ArtEventsReview
Lighting the Way: Noor Riyadh 2024
Winter in the Northern hemisphere is the season of the Pleiades, a star cluster known regionally…
Rahel Aima
3 Min read
ArtEventsReview
On the Horizon: 19th Contemporary Istanbul 
Perched high on one of Istanbul’s seven hills is an 18th-century fire watchtower that now serves…
Rahel Aima
3 min read
ArtProfile
Nabla Yahya
“My reasons for fostering an artistic practice stem from a place of protest and resistance,”…
Rahel Aima
4 Min read
ArtEvents
New Vistas, New Light: Noor Riyadh Preview
There’s a certain pleasure in seeing a biennial or other art event outside of its…
Rahel Aima
7 min read
ArtEventsReview
Homecoming: Islamic Arts Biennale 2023
Five times a day, the earthen floor of syn architects’ austere musalla is raked. With…
Rahel Aima
4 min read

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