MOJEH published Amia Hasheel's feature on 18 March 2025, a joint interview with Maliha Tabari of Tabari, Aisha Alabbar of Aisha Alabbar Gallery, and Celine Azem of Firetti Contemporary.
Maliha speaks at length about the past five years in the region's art landscape, the arrival of figures from Art Basel, the forthcoming Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, and Sotheby's in Saudi Arabia. She points to events such as Art Dubai as international touchpoints, and to measures including golden visas for creatives and government supported studio spaces. She also says that women have been running institutions, galleries and fairs in the Gulf for decades, and that artists are invariably influenced by their contexts.
A work by Chafa Ghaddar is captioned as being at Tabari (the page once spells the gallery name incorrectly). The piece is a gallery founder interview, not a review of a single show.
Alabbar and Azem add their own accounts of Art Dubai, of supporting artists from the region, and of women running galleries in the UAE. Hasheel frames the three conversations against a longer history of state support for the arts since the 1970s.
Tabari is represented in the conversation by its founder, Maliha Tabari.
