DUBAI—Joining a queue of events including the Gulf Art Fair?renamed Art Dubai for its second edition, opening in March—and Art Paris Abu Dhabi, which appeared on the scene in November, the Haughton family (perhaps best known for its world-famous International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show held every October in New York) is introducing Art and Antiques Dubai, to run February 21 through February 24 at the Madinat Jumeirah hotel. Spurred by their children, Giles and Emma, Brian and Anna Haughton have drawn on their vast network of contacts to line up over 35 exhibitors, more than a third of which are from London, the family’s power base. Other participants are local or from a wide range of cities, from Marseille to Tokyo. Among the London-based galleries participating are Islamic-art dealer Amir Mohtashemi, who is bringing a 17th-century Persian tile with floral decoration from the Safavid era priced at £9,500 ($19,200); the Mathaf Gallery, a leading specialist in Orientalist paintings, which is selling The Road to Bizerte, Tunisia, a 1909 oil on canvas by Polish portraitist Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz, for approximately £200,000 ($408,000); and Bernard J. Shapero, a rare-books dealer, who is offering a mix of travel books and maps of the region, including a late 16th-century one of the Arabian peninsula, from Antwerp, signed by Cornelius de Jode (£7,500; $15,100).

"Bridging the Gulf" originally appeared in the February 2008 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's February 2008 Table of Contents.