Raemona included Maliha Tabari as entry 6 in its 40 over Forty list for week four of 2024, a profile published on 25 March 2024 and written by Bea Gotico.
The blurb presents her as a collector and as founder of the Dubai gallery. It follows a Palestinian childhood spent between the Levant and the Gulf, art studies in the United States in the 1990s, and her return to the UAE in 2002, when she set out to open a space in which local and international audiences could meet artists from the region. The gallery's home in DIFC is named, as is a personal collection of more than 200 modern and contemporary works that, the magazine says, tell a story of life in the Middle East and North Africa from many points of view.
The piece also records her work with artists whose careers she has helped to develop, among them Khaled Zaki, Adel El Siwi and Hussein Madi, now represented in collections including the Guggenheim, the British Museum and LACMA.
It is a short entry in a wider list of women from many fields, not a long interview, but it is one of the few recent English language profiles of Maliha that is not already on the News page. Tabari is at Gate Village Building 3, Podium Level, DIFC, open daily from 10:00 to 22:00.
