A Facebook group called StayHome: MakeArt (Budding Talents Aged 3-8), set up by the multimedia artist Maysaloun Faraj, is providing aspiring young artists with a welcome channel for creativity during lockdown, as Miriam Dunn discovered   The Tiger who Came to Tea by Ayla (aged 4)   What was the inspiration for the StayHome:...

The multi-media artist Fadi El Chamaa tells ArtScoops why he doesn’t see his long-lasting love affair with portraiture ending anytime soon   You refer to your work as ‘A Hymn to Freedom’. How did this definition or description of your art come about? I’ve never wanted to be constrained by borders in my work, viewing it more as a...

Michelle Maluf tells ArtScoops about giving age-old Colombian weaving techniques a contemporary Lebanese twist in her eye-catching tapestries     In her youth, the visual artist Michelle Maluf loved nothing better than whiling away the hours watching the talented women weavers practising their craft on the top floor of her father’s...

Nayla Romanos Iliya talks to Ahmad Minkara about her new, Dante-inspired public installation, titled ‘On the Other Side of Time’     There’s something ironic about the fact that the multi-disciplinary artist, designer and trained architect Nayla Romanos Iliya was forced to postpone the launch of her large-scale public installation,...

From ill-conceived judgment calls to the symphonic sounds of Beirut street life, poignant childhood memories combine to create a rich and telling tapestry in Tony Seker’s art     While decades have passed since the Lebanese-born artist Tony Seker found himself sporadically uprooted with his family to escape conflict, those years...

Lebanese artist Tamara Haddad talks to ArtScoops about her all-encompassing bid to relay both the earth’s beauty and the damage we’re doing to it in her work   You began painting while still working in advertising and graphic design. Was it something you were interested in as a child? I actually started painting while at the...

The Damascus-born, Paris-based photographer and sculptor Laila Muraywid sets out to explore the human body through varying shades of light and from different angles. Here, she talks to ArtScoops about her choice of media, reconciling conflicts and the impact that war has had on her work     You’ve worked with a diverse range of...

Soha Ghandour gives ArtScoops a snapshot of her shift into photography, sources of inspiration and love of spontaneity     You decided to focus fully on photography after achieving success at the Byblos Bank Awards in 2016. How has life changed for you since that time?   I like to think of my move into photography as organic....

The young Egyptian-American mixed media artist Iman Dabbous is causing a buzz in New York, where she is currently studying, and farther afield. Here she talks to Miriam Dunn about how the chaos and colours of Cairo routinely find their way into her work and her recent decision to experiment with copper plate etchings     As a young...