Ayyam Gallery opened its doors in Dubai on May 31st 2008. The opening night was well attended and there was a special electricity in the air. Most of Ayyam Gallery's artists were flown into Dubai for this special occasion.
With Dubai’s recent rise as the epicenter of the Middle Eastern art scene, a second gallery in Dubai was a logical next step. “We felt that it was important for us to be located here in the middle of the action. We have been coming to the shows and auctions here since we started the gallery so it was always something we were looking to do when the time was right,”says Hisham Samawi, Khaled’s partner in Dubai.
Until recently, all art from the region was just labeled as “Middle Eastern Art”. That is slowly starting to change, and one can see niches breaking away and developing in their own right such as the Iranian art scene. Ayyam Gallery plan to be at the forefront of defining Syrian Art across the region.
