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The Arab Image Foundation offers internships throughout the year.
Volunteers make an invaluable contribution to our work.
There are currently no job openings at the Arab Image Foundation.
At the Arab Image Foundation premises in Beirut, we not only care for our collection but also welcome students, researchers, artists, and members of the public eager to learn more about the AIF’s work, and photography in general.
Events
Preservation of Damaged Photographs: An Introduction
The Arab Image Foundation invites you to participate in a free of charge, workshop led by AIF's preservation team, Rawan Mazeh, Jana Khoury and Leen Aoun, alongside AIF Digitisation Officer, Asadour Kdouranian, and in collaboration the founder of project Withaqeyya, Amani Rammal.
The workshop focuses on salvaging damaged photographs, stabilising and digitising them, using locally sourced and low cost material.
This workshop is specifically directed towards individuals whose personal photographs have been damaged as a result of recent zionist aggression in Lebanon.
This initiative emerges from our ongoing commitment to radical archival practices, ones that confront erasure, displacement, and destruction not only as historical events but as ongoing conditions. At a time when homes and memories are shattered, we believe in the urgency of salvaging what remains.
To register please fill out the form in this link, or contact us on the Whatsapp number: 71438675.
Experience in archiving is not necessary. Participation is free.
Our news
July 7, 2025- 18
Photography conservation specialist Fernanda Valverde joins us at AIF to lead training sessions on the preservation and housing of broken and damaged glass plate negatives from the Ramazan Collection.
June 10, 2025
The Ramazan Collection has arrived to the Arab Image Foundation. The collection consists of an estimated 12,000 glass plate negatives spanning the 1940s to the 1970s by Kirkuk based Studio Ramazan.
September 17, 2025
We are continuing our work on the 0307ra - Ramazan Collection. The collection consists of an estimated 12,000 glass plate negatives of studio portraiture spanning the 1940s to the 1970s by Studio Ramazan. Located in Kirkuk, the studio was run by Kurdish photographer Ramazan Zamdar. This project was supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
January 24, 2026- 24
The Arab Image Foundation visits Zrariye, South of Lebanon, to give a free of charge workshop, focusing on salvaging damaged photographs, stabilising and digitising them, using locally sourced and low cost material. The workshop is led by AIF's preservation team, Rawan Mazeh, Jana Khoury and Leen Aoun, alongside AIF Digitisation Officer, Asadour Kdouranian, and in collaboration the founder of project Withaqeyya, Amani Rammal. Registration and further details are found in this link.
December 11, 2025- 22
Tarek Mourad's exhibitio, Antipose continues at the Arab Image Foundation until January 22. You can find copies of the book at the Common Library.