A woman on a pink floral sofa looking at her phone, from Yomna El Beyaly's series In Her Own Way

Foam Fotografiemuseum AmsterdamGrachtengordel

Middle East Archive - Al Nisa / Women

Now showing1 October 2026 – 20 December 2026Free

Two-part Foam project in Amsterdam-West: Yomna El Beyaly solo at Mercatorplein (to 29 Oct) and the group show Al Nisa / Women at MAQAM (to 20 Dec), curated by Romaisa Baddar.

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On now All of October 2026

Foam's page for this show leads with a picture from Amizmiz, Morocco, 2025: a smiling sitter in front of a painted studio backdrop of mountains, a waterfall, flowers and an eagle.

The photographs come from Middle East Archive's book Al Nisa / Women, which gathers 72 photographers, archival and contemporary, from across the MENA region. Here it is split across two spots in Amsterdam-West, far from Foam's canal houses. At MAQAM, on Jan van Schaffelaarplantsoen, the group show is printed large on the building's windows, so you see it from the pavement. The prints inside hang among MAQAM's own programme and are only on view when another event is on. On Mercatorplein, out in the open square, Yomna El Beyaly shows In Her Own Way, made in Cairo: women on pink sofas, scrolling their phones under floral decor.

Both parts are free. The Mercatorplein half closes on 29 October; MAQAM's runs until 20 December. To see the indoor prints, check MAQAM's agenda and come for an event.

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Amizmiz, Marocco 2025
Look for a smiling sitter posed before a painted backdrop of mountains, a waterfall, flowers and an eagle, by Romaisa Baddar and Khalid Raji.
In Her Own Way, Mercatorplein
Yomna El Beyaly's Cairo pictures fill the square: one woman in colourful pyjamas lies on a pink sofa on her phone, under a framed landscape painting.
Nun with the Blowing Veil, 2008
Rania Matar's figure in black walks past a metal chair by a tree, the sea behind her, at a convent in Chekka, Lebanon.
Yumna's wedding, Amman, 1993
Yasser Alawan's black and white picture shows a bride in an ornate gown and veil, holding flowers, seated on a bed beside a woman in satin.