This summer, the founder of Darb 1718, famed Egyptian artist Moataz Nasr organized Roadmap to the Renaissance, a contemporary art exhibition showcasing emerging Egyptian talents as well as international luminaries from the United States, (...)
Born in Cairo in 1963, Khaled Hafez practiced medicine but decided to take a break from being a physician in the 1990s for an art career. He studied fine art, media, and digital art in Austria and New York before returning to Cairo where he (...)
Born in 1911, Egyptian national artist Salah Taher has lived through many important periods of world history and modern Egyptian milestones. Among many impressive years of work and created collections, Taher is well known for his ‘tribal (...)
Respected art collector and critic Mohamed Darwish describes Ahmed Shiha's collection of work as “mythological realism.” It is true that much of Shiha's work looks like it was chiselled straight out of the ancient temples of Aswan and Luxor.
In his (...)