Category: Countries
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Aula Al Ayoubi, born in Damascus, Syria, holds a Bachelor of Science degree in the Department of Mathematics from the University of Damascus. She furthered her education with a Diploma in Rehabilitation Education from the same university. Aula is also a graduate of the Fine Arts Institute of the Ministry in Damascus, obtaining a technical…
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A twenty something architecture graduate from Algiers whopicked up her father’s compact camera at the age of 17 with ascattered yet curious gaze. Slowly, what started as an absent-minded and inattentive practice turned into a tool for me to make sense of my surroundings. Growing up in a dense urban area, the details that make…
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Salma Mochtari is a researcher and curator based between Marseilles and Arles. A member of the curatorial and editorial collective Qalqalah قلقلة since December 2020, her research often stems from the conceptual circulations between the fields of art and contemporary philosophy. Based on the specific cases of archival absences and black studies, she works the present…
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Nisreen is a Jordanian artist, with great talent that was noticeable since her early age. She pursued her childhood passion in Art professionally for more than 20 years, in addition, she studied painting at the Spirit of Rouh For Arts Center (2014-2019).. Her work embodying the woman in all her scenes away from silence and…
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“Since I “re/came” to settle in Algeria in 2015, I have been developing a practice as a graphic designer, artist, trainer and cultural practitioner. Through my medium which is graphic design, I experiment with cartography, lettering and editing. I created with Riad Hamed Abdelouahab a graphic studio called “Chimbo” (wild cactus growing on the side of…
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Mais al Azab is a Jordanian architect and artist. Her ink inscriptions art represents an exploration of the surface space in a manner that veers between constrains of idealized geometrical orders and the beauty of imperfection as it emerges from the handwriting process. She holds a Bachelor degree in Architecture with first-class honors from…
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Cléa Rekhou (b. 1988, Paris) is a French-Algerian visual storyteller based in Algiers, Algeria. She grew up in a housing estate on the Paris outskirts and faced social challenges that today nourish her work, her motive and the genesis of most of her projects. After graduating from college with a master degree in Corporate Finance,…
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Katherine Bakhoum, of Franco-Egyptian heritage, has been a longtime Safarkhan resident artist, having held near-annual exhibitions with us since 1998. Bakhoum’s artistic style is a marriage of her multicultural upbringing, which saw her spend her childhood years in Egypt, before later moving to her also-native France. Bakhoum is renowned above all as an expert colorist,…
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Neama El Sanhoury’s upbringing in what she describes as a cultured household is primarily what cultivated her profound appreciation and commitment to rectifying Egypt’s wealth of historical and civilizational customs and heritage. Naturally, El Sanhoury pursued her studies in a similar direction, specifically in applied arts as well as Egyptology, archaeology and art therapy in…
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Born in Alexandria in 1965, Dr. Amal Nasr graduated top of her class with a BA in Fine Arts with a specialization in painting in 1988 from Alexandria University. She was appointed as a teaching assistant in the photography department upon graduation, and gained a master’s in photography in 1993. She earned her doctorate of…
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(1909 – 2009) Kawkab was born in Shubra in 1909. After graduating from Al Saniyyah school in 1929, she left for England to study at the Hornsey school of Art in north London as the recipient of a scholarship. Following her graduation from university in 1934, with diplomas in painting and drawing, Kawkab returned to…
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(1936 – 1978) The lesser known of the Efflatoun sisters, Zohra like her half-sister Inji, was raised in an artistic and aristocratic family. Zohra lived in Alexandria, and studied under the patronage of their esteemed pioneer painters Adham (1908-1959) and Seif Wanly (1906-1979). She was an active participant in the local art scene, exhibiting several…
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Born in 1992 in Bizerte, Asma Ben Aissa lives and works in Tunis. In her work, Asma is fundamentally interested in the landscape as an aesthetic concept, where experimentation serves her art. Her work explores themes of habitat, transmission, architecture, interior and exterior spaces, social transformations, and local heritage, echoing the relationship between environmental construction…
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Rima Rezaiguia simultaneously pursues her career as an architect, managing an engineering firm, and her work as a visual artist. Born in Annaba in 1985, Rima Rezaiguia joined the Higher School of Plastic Arts in Nord-Pas de Calais and graduated with a DNAP in 2016. She participated in several exhibitions in Annaba and Algiers. “This…
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Mesbah Nesma (Jewee), is an Illustrator, graphic designer and author based in Algiers, Algeria. She illustrate stories for children using bright and playful colours, shapes and textures. On the other hand, she writes, illustrate and documents stories inspired by her city “Algiers”, her friends and her own experience a young adult. She published two graphic…