DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZATION

The Arab Image Foundation is a not-for-profit organization established in Beirut in 1997 to locate, collect, preserve, interpret and present the photographic heritage of the Middle East, North Africa and the Arab Diaspora from mid 19^th century to the present.

The ongoing research and acquisition of photographs covers until today Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Morocco, Iraq, Iran, Mexico, Argentina and Senegal. The entire collection comprises 200,000 photographs.

The Arab Image Foundation aims to make its collection accessible to the public through the wide spectrum of activities it initiates, among which are exhibitions, publications, videos, a website and an online image database. It also seeks to further encourage critical approaches to reading and interpreting photographs.