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Ayyam Gallery

Downtown Dubai


With branches at Gate Village and well as here, on the Alserkal Avenue gallery campus in Al Quoz, this top gallery's main mission is to promote emerging Middle Eastern (especially Syrian) artists and to introduce their often provocative, political and feminist work and voices to a wider audience outside the region itself.


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