"Yoriyas Yassine Alaoui, 2019 winner of the Friends of the IMA Award for Young Arab Contemporary Creation, has just been honored by the New York Times as one of the 5 Instagram accounts to follow at the moment", said the IMA on its website.

The "errances" of Rahima Gambo, Nigerian artist based in Abuja, the Moroccan photographic scenes of Yoriyas, the "Pile of Bricks" by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. printer, American book artist and stationer, the art collective Slavs and Tatars, Vanessa Bell's Buenos Aires, so many Instagram accounts of artists and creators who are honored by the famous American newspaper.

Artist-photographer Yassine Alaoui Ismaili, better known as Yoriyas, received the 2019 "Friends of the Arab World Institute" award for young contemporary creation. The purpose of this award is to promote emerging artists under the age of 40 from the countries of the Arab League.