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Spotlight
Our Exclusive Guests
From royals, ministers and ambassadors, to pioneers, emerging artists and creatives from various walks of life, they have all graced the pages of Ithraeyat and told their stories through their art.
With over 500 artists featured, it would be difficult to mention all, and therefore here are a few who opened up about themselves, their motto in life, and the importance of art.
While you hone your craft and become better at it, don’t shy away from showcasing it to the world, art is not personal, art should be shared with the world. It’s a way of sharing, expressing and communicating, art sparks conversations and leads to dialogue....
Her Excellency Noura Al-Kaabi, UAE Minister of Culture
The joy of counting blessings especially in hard times is a vital key to survival. Allowing appreciation to be the real savior. We all can make a difference, if we focus on our sources of joy, and with joy comes strength...
Shaikha Hala bint Mohammed Al Khalifa, Director General, Culture and Arts at Bahrain Authority for Culture.
Art is everywhere...You can’t stop art, it will find its way to express itself...
HRH Prince Badr Bin Abdulmohsin Al-Saud, the legendary poet.
Every family has a love story they like to re-tell. Often it is an intense – sometimes immortal – story like that of Adon and Astarte, Qays and Layla, Romeo and Juliet, stories of unrequited love. In my family, it is the story of Prince Amin and Princess Najla, and it is one that renews my faith in love…
Princess Diala Arslan Talhouk.
Visual arts eventually form the building blocks of the memory of history; visual memories in a national green framework towards which all artists and creatives in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have played a part…
Dina Amin, CEO of Saudi Visual Arts Commission—Ministry of Culture.
Doors in Saudi culture are symbolic of an entrance to heaven, whereby it is like entering a private paradise of peace and harmony inside a home. There is a lot of diversity of doors around the Kingdom, from their different craftsmanship to their various engravings and calligraphic designs, where each door style is linked to the region of its origin…
Somaya Badr, CEO of Art of Heritage and Art of Heritage Cultural Trust who is featured in every issue.
Like a pulsing magnet at the center...This fantastic work on paper, of considerable size, shows a bird’s eye view of the Masjid Al-Haram with the Kaaba in the center. Paintings like this one were made for pilgrims to Makkah, who carried them home and kept them as revered keepsakes imbued with blessings from the holy site…
Dr. Ulrike Al-Khamis, Director and CEO at the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto. In each issue, we feature a special treasure from the Aga Khan Museum, one that tells a story, captures a moment and inspires conversa6on.
I find joy in capturing the ordinary, the banal, the things we see every day, and making them special and discovering the hidden story and beauty in them…
Princess Reem Al-Faisal, a renowned artistic photographer who also broke into the NFT world with her latest art.
