Visual & Performing Arts
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Roznama 8: Art at the end of the world
Review of the group exhibition and competition, Ronzama 8 which took place at the Contemporary Image Collective and Medrar for Contemporary Art in 2021
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The Open Secret
Review of the Joburg Art Fair which took place at Johannesburg, 2018
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Hijacking the contemporary
Review of Imane Ibrahim's exhibition Building Number Twelve Al Kamel Mohammed which took at place, at Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, 2018
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A future possible?
Review of 10th Berlin Biennale, We Don't Need Another Hero taking place in Berlin, 2018
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The Lion and the Brown Witch
Reflections on Theaterformen Festival which took place at Braunschweig, 2018
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On poignant politics and precarious monuments
A review of Mahmoud Khaled's A New Commission for an Old State, which took place at Gypsum Gallery, Cairo, 2018
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Against the tyranny of aesthetic fashions: Remnants of Enchantment at Gypsum Gallery
Review of Doa Aly and Islam Zaher's exhibtion, Remnants of Enchantment, at Gypsum Gallery 2017
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Art and Liberty at the Pompidou: Competitive patronage and an “international focus”
Review of the exhibition Art and Liberty: Rupture, War and Surrealism in Egypt (1938–1948) which took place at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2017
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Staging the truth: Azadeh Akhlaghi’s As an Eyewitness
Review of Azadeh Akhlaghi’s exhibition, By An Eyewitness, which took place at Art Heritage Gallery in Delhi, 2016
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Evasive Routes: Art that reflects a current desperation, and a little hope
Review of the exhibition Evasive Routes, which took place at the Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, 2016
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Whose surrealism? On When Art Becomes Liberty
Review of the exhibition When Art Becomes Liberty: The Egyptian Surrealists (1938-1965) which took place at the Palace of the Arts, Cairo, 2016
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But a Storm Is Blowing: Art contending with memory and tragic contexts
Review of the show But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2016
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On the rooftops of Egypt’s capital, photographers reclaim the urban landscape.
A review of Cairo Bats exhibition, Act 1: The Roof, held at Contemporary Image Collective, originally published in Aperture Issue 224, “Sounds”
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Roznama 5: The return of politics, including some empty gestures
Review of the annual group exhibtion and competition, Roznama 5
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CIC show allows psychology and emotion to triumph
Review of Chronic: On Psychological Exhaustion as a Public State, the second exhibition in Contemporary Image Collective's ongoing If Not for that Wall series
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Sounds As If modernism is still relevant
Review of Sounds As If as part of D-CAF visual arts program, and curated by Gypsum Gallery director Aleya Hamza
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CIC’s portfolio review: On narcissism and constructing aesthetic objects
Review of Annual Portfolio Review/Table Exhibition held at Contemporary Image Collective
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The 57th Cairo Salon: Existentialism as hope
Review of the 57th Cairo Salon held at the Palace of the Arts in Cairo
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‘Roznama 4’: Between the contemporary and a hard place
Review of Roznama 4
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Stagnancy, slowness and voyeurism
Review of the exhibition, “By those Who Are Present”, held at Townhouse Gallery, showcasing the works of artists Assem Hendawi, Maged Abou El-Dahab and Osama El Wardani
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Some observations on the AUC’s graduate exhibition
Review of the AUC Fine Arts graduate exhibition 2015 held at the Sharjah Art Gallery at AUC
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Dismal state: The 37th General Exhibition
Review of the 37th General Exhibition held at the Palace of the Arts and organized by the Fine Arts Sectors in Egypt
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Gypsum Gallery’s first year: An alternative in the making
A review of Gypsum Gallery’s first year and a reflection on the contemporary art gallery scene
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Synonyms of Seeing
Review of Rana El Nemr’s Assembled in Streams of Synonyms (2014), curated by Maha Maamoun and part of AUC_LAB a series of exhibitions and publications commissioned by the Sharjah Art Gallery of the American University in Cairo (directed by Kaya Behkalam)
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Obsession with time: Basim Magdy’s show at Gypsum
Review of Basim Magdy's exhibition, "Measuring the Last Breaths of Time on a Fading Scale" at Gypsum Gallery in January 2015
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Third Eye offers insights into young artists’ use of images
Review of the exhibition ‘Third Eye’, held at Mashrabia Gallery 2014
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Next to Here: Or rather over there
Review of Next To Here exhibition held at CIC in 2014
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Certain Narratives Persist, Here and Elsewhere
Conversation with Jenifer Evans on the exhibition Here and Elsewhere, that was held at the New Museum in New York in 2014
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Vacuum formed, or Taha Belal’s many ways of looking
Review of Taha Belal’s debut solo show at Gypsum Gallery in 2014
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A critical journey: On Mahmoud Khaled’s ‘Painter on a Study Trip’
A review of Mahmoud Khaled’s exhibition ‘Painter on a Study Trip’ at Gypsum Gallery in 2014
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Dissecting Ovid: A review of Doa Aly’s ‘The House of Sleep’
Review of Doa Aly’s exhibition ‘House of Sleep’ at Gypsum Gallery in 2014
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Q&A with Hala Imam
Interview with Hala Imam (2011) on the experience of running the Modern Dance School and what it means to have a community of dancers
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Q&A with Karima Mansour
Interview with artist and choreographer Karima Mansour (2011) on what it means to be a dancer and choreographer in Egypt
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Mad Song Challenges Perception of Reality
Review of Adham Hafez’s performance ‘Mad Song’, performed at the Townhouse Gallery, 2008
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Between Beauty and Despair
Between Beauty & Despair: A review of the exhibition Tales Around the Pavement II held at CIC in 2008
