Category: Countries
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Afraa Ahmed (b.1992, Yemen), currently based in Cairo, is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work includes installation, sculpture, photography and video. She holds a degree in Multimedia Technology from Asia Pacific University in Malaysia. There she began to explore the ways familiarity and ‘safety’ of home stay within us even after being disconnected. Her work has…
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Helen Zughaib was born in Beirut, Lebanon, living mostly in the Middle East and Europe before moving to the United States to study art at Syracuse University, earning her BFA from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Her work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States, Europe and Lebanon.…
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Working primarily in photography and video, Maha Maamoun’s work has been presented by many institutions worldwide including Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; MoMA, New York; ICP, New York; New Museum, New York; MuHKA, Antwerp; MATHAF – Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Beirut Art Center, Beirut; Makan, Amman; Steirischer Herbst,…
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Born in 1955, Greta Naufal is a visual artist and art educator. She started studying painting under John Guvder in 1967 and later at l’Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts under the tutelage of the pioneers of Lebanese modern art (Yvette Achkar, Seta Manoukian, Aref El Rayess, Rafik Charaf, Jamil Malaeb, Nadia Saikaly and Amine El Bacha).…
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Moira Ali is an Egyptian graphic designer and illustrator. She holds a bachelor’s degree in graphic design from the Faculty of Applied Sciences & Arts at the German University in Cairo (GUC), and holds a master’s degree from L’École Européenne Supérieure d’Arts de Bretagne (Eesab) in Lorient, France. Since 2016, Moira has been working as…
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Leila Ghandchi (b.1982, Tehran, Iran) is a PhD candidate in Teaching German as a Foreign Language at Azad University in Tehran, Iran. Ghandchi studied painting under the tutelage of Manouchehr Motabar, a well-known Iranian painter, in addition to serving as his teaching assistant from 2000 to 2004. Her paintings cover a wide variety of themes.…
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Magda Saad El Din, was born on July 26, 1952, in Monufia, Egypt. Her childhood and adolescence were spent in a grand house overlooking the Shibin El Kom River, a significant tributary of the majestic Nile. Magda embarked on her artistic journey by enrolling in the Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria in 1970, culminating…
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Born to an Austrian mother and a Lebanese father, Tanya spent her early childhood in Beirut. Growing up between two very different cultures, she experienced not only cultural enrichment but also a profound alienation from the concept of “home”. This sense of disruption and search defines Tanya’s photographic work throughout the years. Later on, while…
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Interdisciplinary and award winning artist Doris Bittar explores overlapping patterns, decorative motifs and text within the context of historical legacies. Bittar views patterns as cultural DNA mutating in tandem with human migration. Bittar, an Artist Legacy awardee by the California Arts Council, has been recognized for artistic accomplishments and mentoring of young artists (2023). She…