Category: Design
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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…
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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…
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Malak Elghuel is a Libyan artist based between Dubai and London, whose multidisciplinary practice centers around the examination of social changes in the Mena region, particularly her home country. Using time as a measure of change, an invisible vessel for documentation, and a medium, Malak’s research-intensive process explores culture and human behavior during periods of…
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Amira Louadah was born in Algiers. From 2014 to 2021, she studied design and visual arts at Ensci, les Ateliers de Paris, where she developed a passion for staging and storytelling. During her studies, she embarked on formative journeys, including stays in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and New York City, United States, where she began capturing…
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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…
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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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Rana Beiruti is an independent curator based in Amman, Jordan. With a background in architecture, her research interests focus on studying and documenting land-based and social practices in the region, primarily surrounding topics related to the earth, material, craft, and the built environment. She has curated and designed a multitude of contemporary design and art…
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(1954 – 2015) Born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1954, the esteemed artist Wasma Al-Agha graced the world with her creative spirit. As the wife of fellow artist Mahoud Ahmed, she embarked on a lifelong journey that left an indelible mark on the realm of Iraqi art. Her early years were devoted to education; in Baghdad,…
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1916 – 2017 Born in 1916 in Ain el Mreisseh, Beirut, Lebanon, Choucair came from a family of doctors, lawyers, engineers and historians. Her father, Salim Rawda (1872-1917) was an expatriate in Australia trading herbs and writing manuscripts on their medicinal values. When he returned to Lebanon in 1910, he met and married Choucair’s mother,…
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(1924 – 2004) A pioneer of visual arts in Tunisia, as well as an academic and a women’s rights activist. She is remembered for establishing modern tapestry in her country, as well as for her contributions in the fields of design, painting, ceramics, upholstery, and decorative arts, employing various materials such as stamps, ceramics, stained…
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(1930 – 2010) An Egyptian artist and art professor specializing in printed design. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts Cairo in 1954 and her Master of Fine Arts in graphic printing 1957 from the University of Southern California. Beginning in 1958, Aleem taught printmaking at the Faculty of Fine…
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(1913 – 1968) An Egyptian painter and designer who lived most of her adult life in Alexandria, Egypt. Early life and education Badaro was born in Cairo in 1913, on the island of Zamalek. After the death of her Greek mother, her father, who was a lawyer and businessman, took his two daughters, Jeanne and…
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Bahia Shehab is an artist and author based in Cairo. She is Professor of design and founder of the graphic design program at The American University in Cairo where she developed a full design curriculum focused on the visual culture of the Arab world. She frequently lectures internationally on Arab visual culture and design education,…
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Engy Aly (b. Cairo, 1982) is a graphic designer with an MFA from the Basel School of Design (HGK FHNW/UIC). Aly mainly focuses on cultural commissions including posters, catalogues and artist monographs. She is also the initiator and organizer of several workshops, exhibitions and events revolving around design and visual culture in Cairo and elsewhere.…
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Born in Alexandria (Egypt). An Abstract artist with a bachelor’s degree of Fine Arts (Interior Design), Alexandria University in 2005. She has exhibited her art works in Alexandria, Abu Dhabi, Ajman & Dubai in multiple group exhibitions, such as ‘In Resident’ Exhibition after 3 months of art residency in Manarat Al Saadiyat January 2020, “Maheera”…