The 1,400-year-old Nubian toddler tattoos are not isolated curiosities but part of a broader pattern of body marking that is ...
Winged Isis pectoral, Nubian, Napatan period, 538-519 B.C. (Image courtesy of Boston Museum of Fine Arts) Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, among America’s greatest art museums and, along with New York’s ...
When Ramey Dawoud looks back on his childhood days in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, he recalls hearing the adults around him speak in their native language: Nubian. Yet with him they’d ...
Rabab Tantawy is an Egyptian artist based in Dubai whose work is rooted in storytelling through the human form. Over the past decade, she developed a visual language that reinterprets the figures that ...