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Friends of AFAC is a global community of donors, advocates, and supporters committed to strengthening arts and culture across the Arab region.
Together, we ensure that artists and cultural institutions have the freedom, resources, and networks to create, challenge, preserve, and imagine.
As a Friend, your ongoing commitment through regular contributions becomes part of a growing movement building the future of cultural philanthropy in the Arab world, supporting independent artistic voices today while safeguarding our collective cultural legacy for generations to come.
Rima Mismar
Executive Director, AFAC
You are here because you are a pillar in our ecosystem, someone who believes in the transformative power of culture and propels it forward. As we reflect on the past two decades of our work and move through the next twenty years, we seek your ideas, advocacy, and patronage to break barriers to cultural creation and participation across the region.
This is the moment for a new era of philanthropy, rooted in strategic collaboration and local knowledge sharing. Arts and culture offer one of the clearest returns on investment: a future authored by us, for us.
How do we emerge from the state of the world we live in?
We have seen firsthand how even modest investments in arts and culture can unlock enormous potential. A debut film can launch the career of a filmmaker that reshapes how an entire generation sees itself. A research project today can become a public archive or influence cultural policy tomorrow.
Since 2007, AFAC has mobilized over $75 million across 22 countries in the Arab world and its diaspora, supporting over 2,600 projects by independent artists and cultural institutions. Over the years, our network has grown with hundreds of advisors, readers, jurors and mentors contributing to a region-led funding model.
Your investment changes lives and, over time, transforms the cultural imagination of our region.
Every contribution matters. The first step can lead to a lasting legacy.
As your engagement grows, so does your impact. Each Circle offers new opportunities to connect with artists, engage with AFAC's work, and help strengthen the region's cultural future.
Lifetime contribution: Up to $4,999
Your contribution unlocks space for artists to imagine new work into being.
Friends in the Imagination Circle step into a community shaping the future of arts and culture in the Arab world. You’ll join us for intimate gatherings, encounter artists and their work as it unfolds, and take part in the conversations driving the field forward. When you convene others, you widen the circle.
Together, we set the artistic process in motion.
Lifetime contribution: $5,000–$14,999
Your contribution nurtures artistic projects as they grow and evolve.
Friends in the Connection Circle take on advocacy and leadership roles within our community of artists and cultural workers.
Whether by hosting events, introducing new supporters, or deepening your engagement, your purpose-driven support sets the stage for even greater impact by forging new connections. When you lead, these connections multiply, and art thrives.
Together, we bring art to life.
Lifetime contribution: $15,000–$49,999
Your contribution amplifies artists and artistic projects.
Friends in the Resonance Circle become partners in carrying artistic vision both locally and across borders. Your vision-driven support ensures the voices of artists in the Arab world resonate far beyond the studio, shaping the cultural future of the region and its diaspora. When you support art, it travels – shifting perception in the present moment.
Together, we connect arts and communities.
Lifetime contribution: $50,000+
Your contribution helps preserve artistic practices and cultural memory for future generations.
Friends in the Legacy Circle are cultural guardians, carrying forward AFAC’s mission and shaping the region’s artistic legacy.
Your leadership ensures that our narratives, creativity, and heritage continue to thrive across generations, leaving a lasting imprint on the cultural landscape and inspiring the future of the arts. When you safeguard culture, its impact endures.
Together, we carry arts and culture forward.
For nearly two decades, AFAC has stood alongside artists, cultural practitioners, and institutions across the Arab world. When AFAC was founded, opportunities for independent artists were limited. The cultural sector was fragmented, under-resourced, and lacked sustainable support.
Today, our work extends far beyond grantmaking. We invest in artists, cultural institutions, and creative ecosystems that allow culture to thrive. But the work is far from finished.
The coming years demand stronger regional collaboration, greater investment in underserved communities, deeper partnerships across sectors, and sustained support for the artists documenting, questioning, and imagining our collective future. We cannot achieve this alone.
The future of arts and culture in the Arab region depends on cultural philanthropy, one rooted in regional solidarity, shared responsibility, and long-term vision.
Friends of AFAC is more than a giving program.
It is a growing community of people who believe that artists should have the freedom, resources, and support to tell their stories on their own terms.
Whether you contribute through philanthropy, advocacy, convening, or partnership, your involvement strengthens a cultural ecosystem that belongs to all of us.
Help shape the next chapter of arts and culture in the Arab world.
