The Arab Image Foundation is a non-profit foundation that was established in Lebanon in 1996. The Foundation aims to promote photography in the Middle East and North Africa by locating, collecting, and preserving the region's photographic heritage. Our collections will be made available to the public at large in museum and gallery exhibitions and in published monographs.

The Foundation bases the selection of photographs for its collection on aesthetic, artistic, cultural, and historical criteria, regardless of genre. All images produced by Arab photographers or residents of the Arab world are of interest. Works of some photographers, previously scattered in various cities will be collected to allow a clearer understanding of their work. The Foundation's collections will permit scholars, artists, and the public at large to shed light on artistic and cultural currents that emerged in the region during a period of intense social, economic, cultural, and political transformation.