Lebanese artist and designer who was known for her erotic line drawings and abstract paintings was "clearly ahead of her own time"

Dia al-Azzawi's Sabra and Shatila Massacre has been commissioned by a Lebanese art foundation as an "archive of history"

New space for Modern and contemporary art from the Arab world will put on five exhibitions a year

Collector Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi is organising an exhibition with an equal number of male and female masters to redress gender bias

Jerusalem-born artist who lived 50 years in exile was a pioneer of the hurufiyya movement and one of the first to write about Palestine's art history

Symposium at the British Museum, part of the Shubbak festival of contemporary Arab culture, will include artists from war-torn Yemen and Syria

Arab Image Foundation completes $255,000 digitisation initiative and will reopen its Beirut building this summer

Raed Yassin says there are "striking similarities" between his ceramic series on the Lebanese civil war and Ai's pieces on the Syrian war and refugee crisis

Kuwaiti artist Mohammad Sharaf hopes to provoke the general public as well as the authorities

Rashid Al Khalifa of Bahrain is showing his art in London’s Saatchi Gallery

Gallerist Claude Lemand and his wife France also set up a fund to support the museum

The Nabu Museum collection combines antiquities with Modern and contemporary art

The garment was conserved for the Holburne Museum's exhibition of objects collected by the “intrepid” traveller Ellen Tanner

Congolese-born art collector Sindika Dokolo says this "long-neglected historical wrong" is finally being addressed—but more can be done

In a first for Iran, the Teer Art fair is set to open amid a growing but fragile market environment

The $100,000 award recognises mid-career artists from the Middle East and its diaspora

Six partner institutions including the Hammer Museum are behind collaborative art production model

Alia Farid and Aseel AlYacoub will create a light-up botanical garden linking both wings of the Jameel Arts Centre

Macaal’s international launch coincides with city’s first 1-54 Contemporary African Art fair

But when does protecting a creative legacy go too far?

Critics choose highlights from fifth edition of the Jeddah show, organised by Tate curator Vassilis Oikonomopoulos

The Hayy: Creative Hub centre in Jeddah is latest cultural offering announced in the rebranded Kingdom

"Life’s work" of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian goes on show in former palace in Tehran

Sharjah show recreates late artist’s studio

Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden will hold “international opening” in February

Exhibition is final event in Year of Culture partnership between Qatar and Germany

Ahmed Jahaf describes what it is like to live through catastrophic conflict

Art dealer Thaddaeus Ropac and curator Maya Allison tell us how the nation’s creative ambitions have blossomed. Plus: Silver Lion-winning musician and artist Hassan Khan on his Abu Dhabi Art performance

As Abu Dhabi Art fair opens, we speak to the Saudi artists Manal Al Dowayan and Ahmed Mater. Plus: Iraq's Dia Azzawi on creating the Arab world's Guernica

Some dealers at the fair report brisk early business but say big sales are a waiting game