Reviews and interviews on visual arts, theater, dance, and performance
This text looks at thirty five years of the Youth Salon (35th edition) reflecting on the last five years and how, despite stifling political and creative constraints, certain genres and formats finally witnessed an artistic breakthrough.
Review of the group exhibition and competition, Ronzama 8 which took place at the Contemporary Image Collective and Medrar for Contemporary Art in 2021.
Review of Imane Ibrahim's exhibition Building Number Twelve Al Kamel Mohammed which took place at Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, 2018.
Review of 10th Berlin Biennale, We Don't Need Another Hero taking place in Berlin, 2018.
Reflections on Theaterformen Festival which took place at Braunschweig, 2018.
A review of Mahmoud Khaled's A New Commission for an Old State, which took place at Gypsum Gallery, Cairo, 2018.
Review of Doa Aly and Islam Zaher's exhibition, Remnants of Enchantment, at Gypsum Gallery 2017.
Review of the exhibition Art and Liberty: Rupture, War and Surrealism in Egypt (1938–1948) which took place at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2017.
Review of Azadeh Akhlaghi's exhibition, By An Eyewitness, which took place at Art Heritage Gallery in Delhi, 2016.
Review of the exhibition Evasive Routes, which took place at the Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, 2016.
Review of the exhibition When Art Becomes Liberty: The Egyptian Surrealists (1938-1965) which took place at the Palace of the Arts, Cairo, 2016.
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.
A review of Cairo Bats exhibition, Act 1: The Roof, held at Contemporary Image Collective, originally published in Aperture Issue 224, "Sounds".
Review of the annual group exhibition and competition, Roznama 5.
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.
Review of Sounds As If as part of D-CAF visual arts program, and curated by Gypsum Gallery director Aleya Hamza.
Review of Annual Portfolio Review/Table Exhibition held at Contemporary Image Collective.
Review of the 57th Cairo Salon held at the Palace of the Arts in Cairo.
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.
Review of the AUC Fine Arts graduate exhibition 2015 held at the Sharjah Art Gallery at AUC.
Review of the 37th General Exhibition held at the Palace of the Arts and organized by the Fine Arts Sectors in Egypt.
A review of Gypsum Gallery's first year and a reflection on the contemporary art gallery scene.
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.
Review of Basim Magdy's exhibition, "Measuring the Last Breaths of Time on a Fading Scale" at Gypsum Gallery in January 2015.
Review of the exhibition 'Third Eye', held at Mashrabia Gallery 2014.
Review of Next To Here exhibition held at CIC in 2014.
Conversation with Jenifer Evans on the exhibition Here and Elsewhere, that was held at the New Museum in New York in 2014.
Review of Taha Belal's debut solo show at Gypsum Gallery in 2014.
A review of Mahmoud Khaled's exhibition 'Painter on a Study Trip' at Gypsum Gallery in 2014.
Review of Doa Aly's exhibition 'House of Sleep' at Gypsum Gallery in 2014.
Interview with Hala Imam (2011) on the experience of running the Modern Dance School and what it means to have a community of dancers.
Interview with artist and choreographer Karima Mansour (2011) on what it means to be a dancer and choreographer in Egypt.
Review of the exhibition Sound Constructions that was held at Townhouse Gallery in 2008.
Between Beauty & Despair: A review of the exhibition Tales Around the Pavement II held at CIC in 2008.
