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Across Syria, cultural spaces are beginning to welcome audiences again. In 2026, theatres, museums, galleries and cultural centres in cities including Damascus, Homs, Idlib and Azaz have been reopening, restoring historic buildings and bringing exhibitions, performances, concerts and public programmes back into spaces that had been closed, damaged or disrupted for years.
Contemporary art in Saudi Arabia continues to push the boundaries of storytelling and spirituality, and the latest exhibition by Sultan bin Fahad offers a thoughtful reflection on the relationship between memory, belief, and physical space.
For Saudi-born artist Hayfa Algwaiz, space is never empty. Every wall, window, and doorway carries a memory, a boundary, and a story waiting to be told. Trained as an architect and now working as a visual artist, Algwaiz transforms ordinary interiors and in-between spaces into emotional landscapes that speak of identity, privacy, and womanhood.
Across the Gulf region, interior design is undergoing a quiet revolution. While the skyline continues to rise and mega-developments reshape cities, the true transformation is happening inside the spaces where people live, work, and gather. In 2026, design in the GCC is no longer about decoration alone. It is about purpose, performance, and long-term value.
The 11th iteration of Dubai Design Week (4-9 November 2025) at the Dubai Design District (d3) takes community as its guiding principle, and re-positions design as a means of gathering, belonging and social exchange.
On 9 October 2025, Miraz Art Space opened the doors to a compelling solo exhibition by acclaimed Iraqi-Kurdish artist Avan Sdiq, titled “When/Where."...
Daydreamers: Majd Abdel Hamid’s Slow Art of Resistance in Thread
A light that uses ultraviolet radiation to sanitize outdoor spaces, claiming this could reduce the risk of people contracting Covid-19.
Transport design studio PriestmanGoode has developed a concept for a high-performance balloon and pressurised capsule for Space Perspective to take space tourists on a "cruise" around the stratosphere.
If you’ve fantasized about floating in space but lack the skills and training to make the astronaut life a reality, you still have an opportunity to achieve weightlessness, and you won’t have to exit the earth’s atmosphere to do it.
Stars, moons, planets, spaceships, people will be looking out of this world for tattoo inspiration in 2020.