Shams Membership publicizes the official launch of its digital platform, designed as an area for collaboration, creative progress, and alternative. The platform affords each free of charge and paid memberships, connecting customers with worthwhile sources, professional insights, and a vibrant international community.
Based by Lena Khouri and Yasmine Rasool, each of whom are deeply rooted within the arts and artistic industries, Shams Membership affords greater than only a community; it’s a collective for rising and established abilities to develop, showcase their work, and unlock alternatives for long-term success. Members acquire entry to a vibrant ecosystem the place they will join, share sources, and amplify each other’s journeys.
The launch of Shams Membership comes aligned with a time the place MENA states have a renewed, collective deal with cultural progress and the startup community, in step with regional developmental objectives similar to Saudi Arabia’s Imaginative and prescient 2030, the UAE’s Inventive Economic system Agenda, and comparable initiatives throughout Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman. Whereas 2024 noticed a world slowdown, the MENA area nonetheless attracted $2.3 billion in investments throughout 610 offers (Farraj, 2025). Sham’s Membership emerges as a well timed connector for founders, creators, and buyers throughout the area.
As a part of this mission, Shams Membership offers a versatile mannequin, launching each free of charge and premium membership, enabling creatives to attach and develop on their very own phrases to a world stage.
Membership Tiers
Explorer Plan
Complimentary plan for these curious to discover Shams Membership
Be part of totally free to faucet into a world artistic community, get impressed and discover what Shams Membership is all about.
- Get entry to a world community of creatives
- Uncover curated happenings in choose cities around the globe
- Be part of month-to-month Dwell Inventive Periods to be taught from consultants in our group
- Discover job alternatives posted by the group and curated by Shams Membership Lumineer
Lumineer Plan
Be part of the Shams Membership to construct significant connections and acquire entry to artistic alternatives worldwide.
- Get entry to a world community of creatives
- Uncover curated happenings in choose cities around the globe
- Be part of month-to-month Dwell Inventive Periods to be taught from consultants from our group
- Discover job alternatives locally curated by Shams Membership
- Entry month-to-month mentor periods with the Shams Membership staff, answering submitted questions from consultants and offering private introductions
- Entry important sources, together with pitch decks, shows, remedies, PR and investor lists, and extra
Along with its digital choices, Shams Membership is rolling out a collection of in-person occasions throughout key cities worldwide, creating areas the place significant relationships can flourish. Whether or not it’s intimate founder dinners, artistic workshops, or large-scale networking occasions, every is fastidiously crafted to strengthen bonds and open doorways.
Meet The Founders
Lena Khouri is an entrepreneur and producer. She spent her profession at high firms throughout industries, together with leisure at CAA and Wheelhouse, artistic promoting at Deutsch, and her first firm, CURIO, a two-sided tech market. Lena’s background and want to amplify voices that mirror a extra correct illustration of her tradition impressed her to
launch Between East. She is keen about connecting the worldwide MENA group and bringing inspiring tales to life whereas additionally serving to create function fashions for future generations.
Between East is an leisure and media firm that celebrates Center Japanese & North African artwork, creativity, and tradition, revealing a brand new international identification. Our mission is to amplify the voices of expertise who’re pushing the boundaries to form tradition and create a world the place MENA communities are impressed, linked, and celebrated.
Yasmine Rasool is a Cultural Advisor with a deep ardour for artwork, music, and movie, and an energetic voice inside the cultural scenes of the Center East and North Africa. She is devoted to supporting regional artists on a world scale by means of her artistic platform, @waastaa — a cross-cultural initiative that champions expertise from the MENA area and celebrates its artistic energy worldwide.
All through her travels, Yasmine has constructed an intensive community of museums, galleries, and movie homes, collaborating usually to attach MENA creatives with significant worldwide alternatives. Her mission is evident: to assist artists discover their objective, amplify their voices, and acquire the popularity they deserve. At present serving as Senior Programming Supervisor at Dwell Nation and working her artistic company, Let’s Play Yellow Company, Yasmine continues to curate, form, and elevate cultural experiences that go away an enduring influence.
“We consider success shouldn’t occur in isolation,” stated Yasmine, one of many founders of Shams Membership. “By bringing collectively various abilities and giving them the help, publicity, and shared information they want, we’re constructing a group the place everybody has an opportunity to thrive — and to assist others thrive too.”
Shams Membership is open to entrepreneurs, buyers, artistic professionals, and anybody keen about rising inside a trusted and galvanizing community.To be taught extra or grow to be a part of the group go to joinshamsclub.com