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Fares Akkad is the new Regional Director of the Middle East and North Africa [MENA] region at Meta. In this role, Fares designs and leads the commercial growth of the company and its portfolio of apps, services and businesses across MENA. Fares was most recently the Director of Media Partnerships for News in Growth Markets at Meta, supporting journalists and publishers in embedding a sustainable b...

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Vilma has dedicated her career to developing creative industries across New York, Chicago, London and Dubai. She joined Alserkal in 2012 and, in her time with the organisation, she has been instrumental in its evolution and responsible for overseeing Alserkal Avenue’s physical expansion of US$20 million in 2015. Vilma has also been the driving force behind Alserkal’s non-profit activities in the a...

Zeinab Alhashemi is an Emirati conceptual artist based in Dubai. Since graduating from Zayed University with a BA in arts and science specialising in multimedia design, she has become known for her large-scale contemporary site-specific installations. Alhashemi is fascinated with capturing the transformation of the UAE and examines the contrast and interdependence between the abstract, geometric s...

Ahmed Karaly graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in 1994 and participated in the annual Youth Salon exhibition organised by the Ministry of Culture where he received numerous awards. His first solo exhibition took place at the Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art in 2002. He subsequently participated in the Aswan International Sculpture Symposium (AISS), the first of many international sympos...

Born in Alexandria 1972, Graduated from the Faculty of specific Education, department of Art Education , Alexandria University 1993. Participated in a large number of public and group exhibitions in Egypt& abroad, He held three solo exhibitions in Egypt and one solo exhibition in Serbia. His art works collected in museums & private collections in Egypt, France, Spain, UAE، KSA, Turkey, India, Mexi...

The artist, Vivian Al-Batanony, has been participating in the plastic movement since 1998 until now.... She is interested in expressing human feelings. such as love, calm, poise, stillness, and social concepts such as opposing relationships, power, and the relationship with the other through the use of The well-known symbols that carry content and do not refer to the meaning and plastic vocabulary...

Ali is an Egyptian artist born in 1987 and graduated from Law school in 2011. Ali decided to follow his passion for art through sculpting. Ali decided to shift his career by studying art in the Faculty of Fine arts in Alexandria and has received his bachelor degree in 2019. He is currently studying for his masters in Fine Arts in the Monumental Sculpture department. Ali has participated in various...

Mohamed Banawy graduated with B.sc. from faculty of Fine Arts - Helwan University in Cairo in 2000 and M.A in the relation between pharonic and African American mural painting in 2009 , then a pH.d. in art philosophy 2015. H e has taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts since 2000.  Banawy has devoted much time to human rights issues since 2000. H e has participated in numerous exhibitions , biennales...

Egyptian Artist Born in Alexandria 1989, who has studied sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts graduated in 2011& holds an MA (2018). currently a teaching assistant at the faculty of fine arts, sculpture Department, Alexandria University. He has exhibited his artworks since 2011 in different group exhibitions including the Youth salon in its rounds “23 th to 28th” at Cairo opera house, Agenda at t...

A plastic artist and currently working as a member of the Alexandria University’s sculpture department staff. Nasr has previously participated in many exhibitions and workshops, with a particular focus on artworks constructed from iron, such as the 24th Aswan International Sculpture Symposium. From his beginnings as an amateur artist, Nasr graduated from Alexandria University’s Faculty of Fine Art...

Alexandrian artist, working as a teaching assistant at faculty of fine arts, Alexandria university. He studied painting and sculpture in Academia di belle arti in Reggio Calabria, Italy. He also participated in many exhibitions in Egypt and abroad such as; Biennial of Mediterranean Thessaloniki, Greece. Biennial of youth Nottingham, England. Aswan international symposium for granite sculpture. He...

Tamer Ragab Moussa Mohamed Among the mixture of thoughts he finds himself interested in the moving forces and their effects. The wind's impacting all that it faces, changing its physical appearance, led him to think and start the experiment of how such movement influences my sculpting. These effects begin to appear at the start of each sculpture only to find the piece in a contradictory state with...

Marwa Magdy is a graduate from faculty of art education in Cairo 2016 , she is deeply impressed by the form of ANIMALS she said “We can consider the animals a connecting link between man and the earth; it is difficult for humans to relate directly with the natural elements, to understand them in terms of their importance as an ecosystem and therefore habitat that is home to us and asks us to be pr...

Hossam Zaki’s collection is the manifestation of the intersection between the Artist’s imagination and his fascination with the Etruscan ancient history. Etruscan art was produced by the Etruscan civilization of ancient Italy between the 9th and 2nd centuries BC. It is an art direction that is particularly strong in this tradition were figurative sculpture in terracotta. The artist collection is i...

Rose Issa is a curator, writer and producer who has championed visual art and film from the Middle East for more than 30 years. She has lived in London since the 1980s, showcasing upcoming and established artists and producing exhibitions and film festivals worldwide. As well as holding exhibitions at Rose Issa Projects in London, she is also the founder of the publishing units Rose Issa Projects...

Amy Mowafi co-founded MO4 Network, Born and raised in the U.K., graduated from the University of Bath with a BSc. in Business then she moved to Egypt in 2002 and has been living there since then. She began her professional career by joining ‘Enigma’ magazine as a writer while doing her masters in media at the  (AUC) and worked there for ten years till she became a Managing Editor. As writing has a...

Hassan Gabr started his way in cross fit since 2012 and became one of the prominent personalities in the fitness filed in Egypt and an example of what it means to be driven, determined, and passionate. Hassan worked on developing his content over many years in the healthy living and fitness field and now he is the fitness content creator of "The Gorillaa". Fayrouz Eid has been working in the welln...

Rasha was a student of Islamic/ African history, she entered the media field as a TV presenter as She belongs to a big media family, her mother is Samia Al-Etribi and her aunt is Suhair Al-Etribi. Then went to designing, she is the designer of " Asfour El Nil". She aims to recreate the concept of “ patrons of the art” , where clients again commission artisans to create relevant beautiful pieces. O...

Temraz is known for designing luxury collections fabricated with the finest materials and embroidery. An advocate for education and nurturing young talents, she introduced fashion education at the American University in Cairo under the name of ‘Temraza Fashion Studio’. She collaborated with the University on the “Global Fashion Entrepreneurship”, a competition teaching fashion entrepreneurs how to...

Ricardo Karam is a Lebanese  television presenter ,  producer ,  talk-show host , author and public speaker. He has created several shows, series and documentaries, and founded RK productions which has taken charge of producing all his projects, as well as Peacomm, a venture aiming to accompany executives wishing to harness their communication skills. Karam is also the founder of  Takreem , an org...

Farrah El Dibany is an opera singer, born in Alexandria, Egypt.      El Dibany joined the Arts Centre of the Library of Alexandria in 2005 and then in 2010, the Hanns-Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. She is the first Egyptian to win the Prix Lyrique de l’AROP, which is the best opera singer award awarded by the Paris Opera house. In 2016, she joined the Paris Opera troupe, becoming the first Egy...

Ahmed El Shaer is a multi-disciplinary artist , was born in 1981. He got his B.A. in Art Culture Art College, Helwan University. He  practices spans the mediums of installation, photography, sound, and the moving image with a particular interest in digital technologies. His videos combine Machinima, stock footage, 3D animation and experimental soundscapes, and have been shown at international venu...