21 Creatives. 10 Nationalities. One Exhibition: Creative Dialogues Launches The MENA Region’s First Cross-Border Design Collective At Cairo Design Week 2026

Creative Dialogues, the MENA region’s leading multidisciplinary creative platform powered by YVT Consultancy, has announced TheMENAEdit: a cross-border design collective co-produced with Cairo-based studio Design Point and Creative Districts, the company behind Cairo Design Week. The programme culminates in a group exhibition at Cairo Design Week’s fourth edition this November.

The MENA Edit is the first initiative of its kind in the region: a structured co-creation programme that pairs seven cross-border groups, each pairing three creatives from the Gulf, Levant, and North Africa with an Egyptian counterpart leading the project on ground to develop an original limited-edition design object rooted in shared heritage, diverse perspectives, and collective experience.

The resulting works are not individual contributions brought together under a common theme; they are collective creations shaped through ongoing dialogue and collaboration. At Cairo Design Week, the creative process behind each piece will be exhibited alongside the finished work, reflecting Creative Dialogues’ belief that the act of making is as meaningful as the final outcome.

The Creatives

Confirmed participants span Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Lebanon, Tunisia, Iraq and Qatar, representing disciplines from architecture to conceptual art, interior design to urban practice, and more. The participants working collectively as multidisciplinary creatives prove that the diversity of this collaboration is the future of design and a pathway for creatives in this region.

Sara Dhafer Alahbabi (UAE): Conceptual Artist & Educator
Gaida Almogren (KSA): Independent Curator & Interior Architect
Cherif Morsi (Egypt): Architect & Multidisciplinary Designer
Nawaf Al Nassar (KSA): Interior Designer
Laith Khalifa Al Shiyadi (Oman): Urban Practitioner & Artist
Alia & Tamara Tanani (Egypt): Co Founders of Don Tanani
HRH Princess Noura bint Saud Al Saud (KSA): Founder and CEO of Rukun & AlMashtal
Nohma Kaaki (Lebanon): Architect, Urbanist & Artist
Mohammed Said (Egypt): Founder & Design Director of Ebony & Ivory
Alia AlShamsi (UAE): Author, Curator & Multidisciplinary Artist
Nermin Habib (Bahrain): Multidisciplinary Artist, Ceramic Artist & Designer
Yasmine El Meleegy (Egypt): Multidisciplinary Artist & Sculptor
Rand Alkishtaini (Iraq): Multidisciplinary Designer & Interior Stylist
Mashhoor Khaled Al Nassar (KSA): Interior Designer & Founder of Thak AlBait
Malak Ahmed Helmy (Egypt): Architect, Researcher & Spatial Practitioner
Sara Al Nafisi (Kuwait): Designer, Creative & Culture Consultant
Ghalia Abdul Jawad (KSA): Multidisciplinary Artist & Textile Designer
Alia Mortada (Egypt): Architect & Founder of buro doqi
Ghalia Benali (Tunisia): Singer, Composer & Multidisciplinary Artist
Abdulrahman Al Muftah (Qatar): Interdisciplinary Artist, Entrepreneur, and Designer
Ramzi Makram-Ebeid (Egypt): Designer, Curator & Founder of Human Nature Design