Myrna Ayad

Myrna Ayad is an arts consultant, editor and cultural strategist recognised as one of the Middle East’s leading cultural commentators. Her clients include Pepsico, the UAE Ministry of Culture and Youth, the Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group, Bulgari, Bain, Pelham Communications, Riyadh’s Misk Art Institute and Assouline, for whom Ayad authored Sheikh Zayed: An Eternal Legacy (2021) focused on the late Ruler of the Emirates; and Dubai Wonder (2021) as part of the House’s travel series. 
 
From 2016–2018, Ayad was Director of Art Dubai, the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia’s foremost international art fair. 

Preceding this, she wrote on regional art for The New York Times, CNN Online, The Art Newspaper, Artforum, Artsy, Artnet, Wallpaper* and The National, among others.