Nadine Abdel Ghaffar, founder and director of Art d’Egypte, had good intentions when she launched an itinerant art exhibition of public art commissions in downtown Cairo in 2017. Calling the show “a ...

Hamed Nada’s “Folkways” (nd) in When Arts Become Liberty: The Egyptian Surrealists (1938–65) exhibition (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) The calls to revise the canon of art history have ...

A rock art panel near Aswan, Egypt, may depict a rare example of an elite individual from the First Dynasty, shedding light on the formation of the ancient Egyptian state. The late 4th millennium BC ...

The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something eight-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, ...

Nadine Abdel Ghaffar is passionate about fusing fashion, art, Egyptian culture- and presenting it to Egyptians and the world. Egypt’s seven-thousand-year history brings the northeastern African nation ...

With the Grand Egyptian Museum open and Alexandria’s biennial returning, Egypt is positioning itself as a regional cultural force. But its most compelling artistic energy comes from independent voices ...

The people who clustered along the Nile River in ancient times didn’t call their land Egypt. They called it Kemet — literally, “the black land,” so named for the fertile soil suffused by nutrients ...