Archives: Artists
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Malika Sqalli is a multicultural and multilingual artist who uses photography as a medium which shows “reality” in new ways, or, as the great critic John Berger put it, her images are a way of “catching the frame between the frame”, and that frame can be an idea or an emotion in the mind that…
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Mariam Abouzid Souali bears witness to contemporary social, geopolitical, and environmental challenges on local, global, and universal scales. Her recent works immerse us in the world of childhood and the Olympic Games. However, her characters navigate through strange landscapes: containers, highways, mining fields, industrial ports, and many other symbols of overexploitation, climate crises, and migrations.…
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Oumayma Abouzid Souali is a young Moroccan artist, born in 1997 in Rabat. She is currently based between Tetouan and Casablanca. She obtained her Art Diploma in 2021 at the National Institute of Fine Arts of Tetouan (INBA). She has experimented with different mediums, including performance, drawing, printmaking, installation, video art, photography and singing. She…
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Born and raised in Morocco, Yasmine Benabdallah is a filmmaker and visual artist whose work explores memory, performance, embodiment, diaspora, archives, rituals, and time travel. Yasmine’s films and installations have been shown in Morocco, France, Egypt, Palestine, Canada, Germany, Portugal, Tunisia, the US, the UK, and the UAE, where “How to reverse a spell: the…
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Born in 1992 in Rabat (Morocco), Yasmine Hadni studied at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art Villa Arson in Nice, then earned a master’s degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is primarily a painter, while also exploring other forms of expression including video, drawing, sound and printmaking. Her works demonstrate technical…
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Art is her life journey! A Palestinian, born in Jerusalem, currently living in Dubai. Her modern abstract and Religious art is A Call for Peace, from the Holy Land to the Holy Land to all the ends of the earth. Her Hometown Ramallah, Palestine where she lived till age 21, had a great impact on…
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Born in 1970, in Palestine. Through a documentary aesthetic, her photographic work addresses the contradictory implications of the notion of home; it deals with the loss of home and the fight against that loss, but also with the restrictions and limitations that the idea of home imposes on individuals and communities marked by repressive identity…
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Faten Nastas Mitwasi was born in 1975 in Bethlehem. She was inspired by her father, Fawzy Nastas, a prolific sculptor. She received an MFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem in 2011. She started working at Dar Annadwa Cultural Center in 1998 as the art coordinator, curating exhibitions and organizing courses. She…
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Engy Omara, born in Alexandria 1993, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sculpture Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University 2017, she was registered as a master’s researcher at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University. Omara is passionate about primitive art in general, considering it one of the most significant cultural heritages. This belief is…
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Ghadah AlRabee was born in Medina in 1979 and studied Home Economics and Art Education at Taibah University in Madina. She has taught at private and government schools for a while and organized various art workshops. Ghadah’s passion for drawing started since she was in the fourth grade of primary school. She taught herself and…
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Hend Al-Mansour, a multimedia visual artist, gets her inspiration from childhood memories of the strong women who raised her in Hofuf in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia. Folk tales and stories about historical Arab heroines unleash her creativity and nourish her vision. However, her journey into the art world began on a different path.…
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Few artists understand metamorphosis as keenly as Saudi artist Manal Al Dowayan. Long invested in interrogating the gender-biased customs that impact the condition of women in Saudi Arabia, Al Dowayan is a sensitive yet critical witness to the cultural metamorphosis engulfing the Kingdom. Her practice, formally speaking, regularly shifts and evolves—from the assertive black and…
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Zahra BuAli is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, and ceramist. From the figurative to the abstract, to the mixed media, she works with a multi-layered approach. Combines mediums and techniques, challenges boundaries, superimposes layers of form, color, and space. Her work is strongly linked to her constant search into identity, cultural history, and influences. A professional…
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Shadia was born in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, and became a well-known artist in the Arab World. She is a painter, photographer and creates installations. Starting as a painter, Shadia’s work switched to bigger volumes that found their way moving out of the canvas and into space. In part of her work, Shadia documents phenomena along…
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Born in Romania, Assil Diab is a well-known Sudanese graffiti artist, graphic designer and visual artist. Known as “Sudalove”, she is the first female graffiti artist emerging from Sudan and Qatar dubbed by She Leads Africa in 2016. Assil graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in 2011 in Richmond, Virginia – USA with a Bachelor…