Archives: Artists
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Sahar El Echi (b. 1992) lives and works in Tunisia. She is a visual artist, filmmaker, and film curator. A graduate of the School of Fine Arts in Tunisia, she also holds an MA in visual design with distinction. Sahar has directed several independent films, including Mutation, Manwella, In-Between, and Correspondences. She has participated in…
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Houria Mosbah is an Algerian artist whose multidisciplinary work spans music, photography, art direction, and design. Her artistic journey is rooted in Algiers, grounding her work in personal narratives that explore broader themes such as cultural identity, nostalgia, and the everyday paradoxes of Algerian life. Her projects, including the photography series Dolce Wa Banana and her clothing…
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Mariam Ghani is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her work operates at the intersections of language, loss, migration, memory, and history. Her films, public projects, photographs, and installations have been presented and collected worldwide, notably in Times Square and the new Terminal C at LaGuardia Airport; the Guggenheim, New Museum, MoMA, Smithsonian, and Metropolitan Museums;…
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Kenzä Bousseloub (كنزة بوسلوب) is an Algerian- American artist who works in film, photography, and journalism. Although her artistry is generally based in the city of Philadelphia, she has created internationally subjective documentary projects and continues to do so locally as she grounds her work in personal stories where she aims to explore larger themes…
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Amany Adel, born in 1992, is an Egyptian documentary filmmaker, photographer, and podcast producer based in Amman, Jordan. She graduated from both the Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Jesuit Film School in Alexandria. Amany’s passion lies in the archive and Oral History, which she believes are vital sources for documenting heritage…
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Nagat Farouk, is an Egyptian artist graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Art Education from Helwan University in 1987 and subsequently earned both her Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Art Education from the same institution. She has showcased her work in various solo exhibitions, including those at the Gezira Arts Center, the Egyptian Opera House,…
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Hanan Youssef is an artist who comes from an architectural background. She found herself immersed in drawing and painting at a young age, and as such decided to turn her passion into her career. As any experienced artist, Hanan has taken part in many workshops both in Egypt and abroad. Furthermore, she has held her…
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Founder of the Tilawin Project, Liasmine FODIL was born and lives in Algeria. In her photographic practice, she takes a critical look at her environment to try to understand its functioning; she also questions the place of women in society. It is through individual stories that she addresses her questions. She has exhibited her work…
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Ruwan Hamdy (b. 1995) an architect and interdisciplinary artist based in Alexandria. She works primarily with photography , mixed media and space intervention. Broadly, she’s interested in the intersection of architecture, art and design. Her work tends to question the unwritten rules that shape our perceptions and inform our behavior in the spaces we navigate.…
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Aline Geoffroy was born in Latakia in 1930 to a French Orientalist father and a Syrian mother. She completed her secondary education in Latakia and continued in Beirut where she obtained her Baccalaureate. Afterward, she studied photography and fine arts at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA) and attended some lectures on child psychology.…
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Nahla Darwish, an Alexandrian artist born in 1995, obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts in 2018. She has been an active participant in numerous art exhibitions and events, including Luxor Symposium 13, Agenda Exhibition, the 15th session of the Youth Salon, “Blue” at arcade gallery, “Poultry” at arcade gallery, Women in Khan Magrabe, and…
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Sara Khayat is a feminist graphic designer, illustrator, and visual artist from Syria. She was born in Damascus and studied graphic design at the International University for Science and Technology (IUST Syria). Khayat’s work is focused on women’s, LGBTQI+, and refugee rights, using illustration and graphic design to support a wide range of social justice…
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Yasmine Nasser Diaz is a visual artist whose work frequently occupies the domestic sphere to explore the boundaries of cultural identity. Staging familial memories in nostalgic recreations of home, her work nods to both tradition and technological change and is often deftly punctured by powerful feminist and social critique. Using a variety of media from…
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Sonia Kacem (*1985) lives and works in Geneva, where she earned a master’s degree from the Haute école d’art et de design (HEAD) in 2011. She has won numerous prizes and scholarships, including the Leenard’s Cultural Grant (2023), the Zurich Art Prize (2022), the Kiefer Hablitzel Prize (2015), the Manor Art Prize (2014), and the…
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Born and raised in Damascus to an artist father Ibrahim Alawad, Layali Alawad is a Syrian artist based in Aachen, Germany, where she currently resides and practices her craft. With a versatile approach that spans graphic printing techniques to painting, Alawad’s oeuvre is a testament toher dedication to the visual arts. While her artistic repertoire…