Salasil: Practitioners of Care and Experimentation

The UAE-based curatorial duo favours slowness, depth and imagination, resisting extractive cultural models and spectacle-driven sameness of today’s institutions. Studio salasil responds to the shifting contours of the world, forging encounters where care grounds the work and experimentation keeps it breathing

What to Gift Your Loved Ones This Eid?

ICON MENA’s annual Eid al-Fitr gift guide

All the Best Dressed Men at the 2026 Oscars

A star-studded night, and brooch-studded blazers

Beyond the Red Heart, What Does Love Look Like?

This Valentine's Day, it only felt right to ask our community

Where Was J Balvin During Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl?

Our ICON Sounds Cover Star's Surprising Sideline Choice

Interludes and Transitions: The Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2026 Opens in JAX District 

Bringing together more than 65 artists from over 37 countries whose works traces migration, memory, and cultural transmission