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  • Sahar El Echi

    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…

  • Nadine Khoury 

    Nadine Khoury is an art advisor, curator and writer based in Dubai. With roots from Palestine and Syria, she moved around the Gulf and North America while immersing herself in various cultures along her path. Nadine’s passion for the Arts, led her into various branches of the art world. Nadine’s journey began with managing galleries…

  • Houria Mosbah

    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…

  • Mariam Ghani

    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;…

  • Kenzä Bousseloub

    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…

  • Amany Adel

    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…

  • Nagat Farouk

    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,…

  • Hanan Youssef

    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…

  • Liasmine Fodil

    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…

  • Elham Khattab

    Elham Khattab is an arts manager, curator, and researcher whose work focuses on the intersection of art and technology, aiming to support and promote under-recognized artists in Egypt and North Africa. In her early career as a fine arts graduate, Khattab concentrated on contemporary art in her curatorial work. During this period, she founded Out…

  • Ruwan Hamdy

    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.…

  • Aline Geofroy Nasry

    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.…

  • Nergis Abıyeva

    Nergis Abıyeva (1991) is a feminist art historian, curator, writer, and director of Quick Art Space, a non-profit art foundation in Istanbul. Alongside her professional activities, she continues her PhD studies in the Art History department at Istanbul Technical University. Upon the completion of her undergraduate studies at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (MSGSU), Department…

  • Nahla Darwish

    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…

  • Sara Khayat

    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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