Egyptian Artist
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Mahmoud Said
Mahmoud Said spent thirty years as a judge and painted Egypt in his spare hours. Meet the Alexandrian aristocrat behind Les Chadoufs and see why his canvases still anchor Egypt’s modern…
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Mohamed Elmoslemany
Mohamed Elmoslemany is an Egyptian painter and professor whose portraits capture the character and history written into Egyptian faces. Working across oil, watercolor, and mixed media, he blends echoes of ancient…
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Walid Ebeid
Walid Ebeid is an Egyptian painter who began drawing at six years old and later trained in realistic expressionism, earning his master’s degree in oil painting. His work has shown across…
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Yasser Rostom
Yasser Rostom is an Egyptian surrealist artist born in 1971, often called the Egyptian Dalà for his intricate pen and ink work blending ancient and modern imagery. His series Doves and…
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Ali Hassaan
Ali Hassaan is an Egyptian painter and professor born in 1975, who holds a PhD in painting from Helwan University in Cairo and teaches at Luxor University’s Faculty of Fine Arts.…
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Asmaa M. Khoury
Asmaa M. Khoury is an Egyptian artist born in Cairo in 1988, who earned her degree with honors from the Faculty of Applied Arts in 2011 and later served as a…
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Hany Gamal
Hany Gamal is an Egyptian sculptor born in Minya Governorate in 1986 who studied sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Minia University, graduating in 2008. He gained wide attention in…
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Waleed Yassin
Waleed Yassin is an Egyptian realist painter whose portraits and cultural scenes have drawn attention from art lovers across the Middle East and the West since around 2011. His work favors…
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Ahmed Elmasry
Ahmed Elmasry is an Egyptian photographer known for bold, direct images that move between portraits and street photography. His work captures the rhythm of Cairo, its markets, alleys and sudden gestures,…
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Ervand Demerdjian
Ervand Demirdjian was an Armenian Egyptian painter born in Constantinople in 1870 who trained in Paris under Jean Paul Laurens before fleeing persecution and settling in Cairo in 1896. There he…
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Samir Fouad
Samir Fouad is an Egyptian watercolor and oil painter, born in Heliopolis, Cairo, in 1944, who trained as a communication engineer before finally retiring in 2001 to paint full time. A…
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Ibrahim Najjar
Ibrahim Najjar is an Egyptian architect and photographer who brings an architect’s eye for composition and structure to his wildlife and portrait photography. His travels across Africa have produced striking images…
