Category: Photography
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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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Olfa Feki is an architect, curator and artistic director/founder of #Kerkennah visual art festival. She has contributed to the establishment of the new generation of photojournalists of the North African shores following the Arab spring. After founding the first visual art center in Tunisia, she decided to move out to extend her experience. From project…
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Born in 1994, Sarah Ben Amar started practicing photography at 17. She continued throughout her studies in English and History. She also became interested in film during that period. Her primary focus is on the relationship between the collective and the individual and how space shapes or mirrors that relationship. She has been a resident…
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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…
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(1973 – 2018) An Iranian contemporary multidisciplinary visual artist whose work focused on women’s issues, gender representation, and the beauty industry.She is best known for depiction of rebellious Iranian women in her Girls in Cars and Miss Hybrid series of photographs. Aliabadi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1973 to Maymanat and Iraj Aliabadi. Her…
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(1982 – 2016) Leila Alaoui, a French–Moroccan photographer and video artist, dedicated her career to shedding light on social injustices and advocating for cultural identity, diversity, migration, and displacement. Born in Paris to a Moroccan father and French mother, Alaoui spent her formative years in Marrakesh, Morocco. The plight of migrants undertaking perilous journeys left…
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( 1893 – 1940) Karimeh Abbud was born in Bethlehem. Her father Said Abbud, was working as a teacher in Bethlehem, after the family had moved from Khiam, in South of Lebanon to Palestine. At the turn of the century, he became pastor of the Lutheran church for the following five decades. Karimeh was the…
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Nourhan Maayouf is an Egyptian visual artist who works with photography and video. In 2022, She obtained her MA in Arts in Public Spheres, from the Valais school of art (EDHEA), in Switzerland. She participated in many local and international group exhibitions such as 13th Bamako Biennale in (2022), Cairo Video Festival in (2019) and…
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Lara Baladi is an Egyptian-Lebanese artist, archivist and educator recognized internationally for her multidisciplinary works. Her artistic practice spans from photography, video, sculpture to architecture and multi-media installations. Informed by critical investigations into historical archives and the study of popular visual culture, Baladi’s work questions the theoretical divide between myth, memory, socio-political narratives and the…
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b. Cairo, Egypt 1985 Mai Al Shazly is an Egyptian visual artist, visual researcher and a potter based in Cairo. She works with photography, film, writing and recently re-appropriating archival material in different Mediums. Her work has been shown in several exhibitions. She has participated in Paris Biennale des Photographes Du Monde Arabe Contemporain 2019,…
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(b.1967, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain) Ghada Khunji is a graduate of the Parsons School of Design and the International Center of Photography’s Documentary Program, both in New York. She started her career in the early nineties as a freelance photographer in the fashion industry in New York City, and spent two years as a research…
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Nadia Mounier (b.1988, Cairo) is a visual artist working with photography and video. Her work is interested in representations of the self by exploring aspects of privacy, censorship, digital stagings, and body performance within the public and private spheres. As a cultural practitioner for the last 10 years, she is passionate about modes of collaboration,…
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Weaam El Masry is an Egyptian, Cairo-Dubai based, multi-award winning visual artist. She holds a PH.D. in media art from the Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University. She is currently working as a lecturer at the Faculty of Arts & Design, MSA University. She is a curator and co-founder of Easel and Camera contemporary art…
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Born in Cairo in 1986, Salwa Rashad graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, specializing in oil painting, in Alexandria in 2002. She has been an active member of the Plastic Arts Syndicate since then. Salwa’s artistic journey has been marked by numerous group exhibitions, photography workshops, and artistic residencies. She had the opportunity to…
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Malekeh Nayiny was born in 1955 in Teheran, Iran. According to family members, she was a very bad-tempered baby, but she improved a great deal around the age of three. Nayiny loved to play with the ants in our garden. Every day, she would feed them sugar and watch how patiently they would carry each…