Mamluks: Legacy of an Empire
2025-09-17 - 2026-01-25 | Louvre Abu Dhabi, Louvre Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi (UAE), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
A sweeping, historically rigorous survey that reframes Mamluk visual culture as a networked artistic practice—calligraphy, textiles, metalwork and manuscripts—tracing the dynasty’s aesthetic languages, trade routes and diplomatic visuality across the medieval Islamic world.Artist(s): Various (historical objects from multiple collections)

DIVAS: From Umm Kulthum to Dalida
2025-10-17 - 2026-01-11 | Nicolas Sursock Museum, Nicolas Sursock Museum, Beirut (Lebanon), Beirut, Lebanon
A multimedia exhibition tracing the cultural and political resonance of celebrated Arab divas—music, film and iconography placed in dialogue to reveal how popular female performers shaped modern Arab identities and transregional cultural circuits.

Image Keepers: Photographic Works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection
2025-11-08 - 2026-04-26 | Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah Art Foundation — Photography Gallery (Sharjah, UAE), Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
A curated panorama of photographic practice from the Foundation’s holdings, this show foregrounds historical and contemporary approaches to image-making that record social change, migration, and the politics of everyday life across the Gulf and wider Arab world.
