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visual art • 33 min read
Moments of turmoil are daily latencies made visible: A conversation with Hassan Khan
Dan Jakubowski | The Egyptian artist's Composition in a Public Park won the Sliver Lion and this year's Venice Biennale
29 August 2017
conversation • 16 min read
In conversation: Lara Khaldi on earth, artists’ books and Sharjah Biennial 13
Mai Elwakil | "Every two years Sharjah becomes a center of sorts for Arab artistic production"
11 August 2017
graffiti • 7 min read
In photos: The third Trader of Simplicity exhibition remembers Hisham Rizq
Leena ElDeeb | "We want to immortalize that feeling that overwhelmed us six years ago"
28 July 2017
visual art • 10 min read
Don’t Shrink Me to the Size of a Bullet: The works of Iraqi artist Hiwa K
Dan Jakubowski | Encountering abominations with gaiety, interrogating the body’s openness dominance by outside forces
26 July 2017
visual art • 22 min read
Distressed and homeless in Athens, settled but compromised in Kassel: On documenta 14
Dan Jakubowski | Dan Jakubowski navigates institutional ethics and painfully human art
19 July 2017
visual art • 13 min read
Regional artists largely fit the post-utopia feel at this year’s Venice Biennale
Dan Jakubowski | Moataz Nasr’s safe political allegorizing disappoints in the official Egyptian Pavilion
17 July 2017
visual art • 11 min read
Maeve Brennan’s The Drift and messing up mainstream media stories
Mia Jankowicz | An unfathomable place in perpetual need of explaining from the outside
1 June 2017
visual art • 11 min read
Fattuta and the assassination of Sadat: Conversations with Sherif El Azma on the history of video art in Egypt
Ahmed Shawky | On the link between early 1980s TV and the emergence of video art
24 May 2017
archives • 12 min read
Archive-based art: Destabilizing the power of the archive while declaring its victory
Mohammad Shawky Hassan | Relying on archival material in his films has led Mohammad Shawky Hassan to think about its limits
16 May 2017
 
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Opinion
Sultan al-Qassemi
Egypt’s art museums: Out of sight, out of mind
Tucked away in the bustling commercial street of Mohamed Pasha Said in the Janaklees district of Alexandria
30 September 2014
Lina Attalah and Mark LeVine
Another 48 hours
Editor’s note: We found it hard to solicit pieces commemorating the January 25 revolution, mainly because
9 February 2014
Shehab Fakhry Ismail
Revolutionizing art
Wandering the streets of downtown Cairo you may have noticed a change in the tone of much of its street
15 October 2013
 
News
art fraud • 4 min read
2 arrested for forging paintings by Mubarak-era culture minister
4 September 2015
Hani El-Masri • 2 min read
Obituary: Egyptian ‘Disney’ artist Hani El-Masri dies at 64
25 August 2015
ek3a • 5 min read
Have an alternative Valentine’s Day in Cairo
13 February 2015
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Teenage Egyptian artist designs new album cover for Pink Floyd
23 September 2014
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