SWANA Chronicles

Category: Collage
  • Yasmine Nasser Diaz

    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…

  • Ikram Omar

    Born in Cairo 1940, Egyptian artist Ikram Omar studied at the faculty of Fine Arts, Egypt, and at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. Finally, she obtained her degree from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, Italy, in 1966. The artist, Ikram Omar, chose to make her cultural artistic message…

  • Yasmine Ben Khelil

    Born and based in Tunis (1986), Yasmine Ben Khelil studied at the university Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris, France. Yesmine’s approach consists mainly of re-appropriating or reinterpreting all kinds of images, objects or texts through various means (drawings, collages, installations, paintings, videos) to portray a world saturated with representations, transformed into a flow of information where past…

  • Huda Lotfi

    Huda Lutf (b. Cairo, 1947) is a cultural, gender historian by professional training whose work in the field of the visual arts translates these affiliations in multiple complex ways. In 1983, she received her PhD in Arab Muslim Cultural History from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. A self-trained artist, Lutfi, began her practice during the mid-1990s,…

  • Mai Refky

    Egyptian artist Mai Refky holds a Bachelor degree in painting from Helwan University’s Fine Arts in Cairo (1998), as well as her studies of Islamic art and architecture at the American University in Cairo (1999-2000). She also holds a Traditional Islamic Arts and Crafts Diploma from Jameel House of Traditional Arts in Cairo (2013 –…

  • Zaina El-Said

    Zaina El-Said was born in Amman, Jordan in 1978 of Circassian origin from the North Caucasus, currently based in Jordan. She completed her higher education in 2001 from the American Intercontinental University in London. Between travels and missions between Europe, America and Russia, it wasn’t until 2010 that Zaina settled back in Amman and took…

  • Haibat Balaa Bawab

    Haibat Balaa Bawab is a Lebanese artist mainly known for her collage artworks. Haibat Balaa weaves narratives of Beirut and its people in her collages and in her oil paintings. Born in the city and having lived in it all of her life, the day-to-day scenes have had an effect on her and were translated…

  • Sarah Richani

    Sarah Richani, originally from Lebanon, is a full-time artist based in Zurich, Switzerland, since 2018. Richani works with mixed media including collage techniques, textural pastes, metal erosion and uses oil, gouache or acrylic paint on canvas or cardboard. In her art, she tackles topics related to philosophy, psychology, and society. She graduated in Fine Arts…

  • Maha Rukab

    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…

  • Ghadah Al-Rabee

    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…

  • Greta Naufal

    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).…

  • Leila Ghandchi

    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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