# DALL-E (دال-إي)

> DALL-E is currently blocked in Syria, as of 2026-08-10.

- Status: blocked
- Outreach: Contacted
- Company: [OpenAI](https://unblocksyria.com/en/companies/openai.md)
- Categories: AI Image Generation, AI Infrastructure & Platforms
- Official site: https://openai.com/dall-e
- Community votes: 83
- Last updated: 2026-08-10
- Page: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/dall-e

## About

OpenAI's AI model that generates images from text descriptions

## Activity summary

Blocked in Syria. A community report in February 2026 noted that although the DALL-E site loads, the service is effectively unusable because it depends on ChatGPT, which is blocked in Syria. The team sent a follow-up to OpenAI in March 2026 naming DALL-E alongside its other products and asking for a single company-level compliance review; no resolution has followed.

## Official timeline

- 2026-03-31 — Follow-up Sent. Official follow-up email sent from corporateaffairs@unblocksyria.com to support@openai.com. DALL-E was explicitly named alongside ChatGPT as blocked, with a request for a single corporate-level compliance review covering all three OpenAI products.

## Community reports

- 2026-02-11 — Investigated. Community report from Syria: Although the DALL-E website itself loads, the service is effectively blocked because it requires ChatGPT, which is blocked in Syria.

## Context

These are geo-restrictions the companies applied themselves, not filtering by Syrian ISPs and not a legal requirement. US and EU sanctions on Syria were lifted in 2025. See https://unblocksyria.com/llms.txt for the regulatory summary and https://unblocksyria.com/en/about for citations to the specific orders and regulations.

## Machine-readable

- JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/dall-e?locale=en
- Timeline JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/dall-e/timeline?locale=en
- HTML: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/dall-e
- Other languages: https://unblocksyria.com/ar/services/dall-e.md, https://unblocksyria.com/ku/services/dall-e.md