SWANA Chronicles

Category: Digital Art
  • Leila Bakouche

    Leila Bakouche, born in Algiers in 1992, is a multidisciplinary artist with a deep passion for cities, architecture, and the intricate details that define spaces and identities. Growing up near the Mediterranean, she was influenced by the Ottoman and Haussmannian architectural styles. Her love for cities was cultivated throughout her life, leading her to specialize…

  • Mona El-Kateb

    Mona Elkateb is a visual artist based in Cairo, Egypt. She experiments with a range of mediums, including digital illustration and acrylic painting. She is keen to explore the role of digital art in supporting various social causes online, in particular since the online revolution sparked by women in July 2020. Her artwork often explores…

  • 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…

  • Manar Ali Hassan

    Manar Ali Hassan is a multidisciplinary artist and curator who blurs artistic boundaries by merging diverse mediums such as painting, sculpture, digital art, and immersive installations. With a Master of Visual Arts from ALBA, she explores social and philosophical related themes and their intersection with art and technology.  As a curator, she bridges contemporary and…

  • Mariam Abouzid Souali

    Mariam Abouzid Souali bears witness to contemporary social, geopolitical, and environmental challenges on local, global, and universal scales. Her recent works immerse us in the world of childhood and the Olympic Games. However, her characters navigate through strange landscapes: containers, highways, mining fields, industrial ports, and many other symbols of overexploitation, climate crises, and migrations.…

  • Yasmine Benabdallah

    Born and raised in Morocco, Yasmine Benabdallah is a filmmaker and visual artist whose work explores memory, performance, embodiment, diaspora, archives, rituals, and time travel. Yasmine’s films and installations have been shown in Morocco, France, Egypt, Palestine, Canada, Germany, Portugal, Tunisia, the US, the UK, and the UAE, where “How to reverse a spell: the…

  • Hend Al-Mansour

    Hend Al-Mansour, a multimedia visual artist, gets her inspiration from childhood memories of the strong women who raised her in Hofuf in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia. Folk tales and stories about historical Arab heroines unleash her creativity and nourish her vision. However, her journey into the art world began on a different path.…

  • Valia Abou AlFadel

    Valia Abou AlFadel, a distinguished Syrian artist known for her proficiency in illustration and creative art direction, has made significant contributions to the world of visual arts. A graduate of “The High Institute of Fine Arts and civil preparatory education,” Valia is a proud member of the Union of Plastic Artists in Syria and holds…

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