To step into Anas Albraehe’s studio is to enter a space where instinct and introspection move together.
In 2014, Artscoops began as Raya Mamarbachi’s answer to a simple gap: access. In a regional market still anchored in physical spaces, she imagined a digital platform where new collectors could find their footing and artists could reach audiences far beyond their immediate circles. A decade on, her clarity and candour remain central to how Artscoops operates. In our conversation, she reflects on the early resistance, the shifts transforming the market, and why democratizing discovery still drives her work today.
GHAZI BAKER | Constructing chaos
For Chant Avedissian, art was always an act of resistance. “I do not do art,” he once declared. “I do fighting against influences.”
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For more than eight decades, Laure Ghorayeb lived through lines of ink and words. Born in 1931 in Deir El Qamar, she began drawing as a schoolgirl
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For over four decades, Haibat Balaa Bawab has quietly pieced together a portrait of Lebanon where tradition is fluid and fragmented.