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Liu Shiming Art Foundation Partners with AUC to Foster Artistic and Cultural Initiatives

MENA FN 20 Mar 2023
(MENAFN - Bashir Mraish Consultancy) At an official ceremony on February 26th at the American University in Cairo (AUC), the Liu Shiming Art Foundation announced its latest efforts to promote global ... .
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‘The stuff was illegally dug up’: New York’s Met Museum sees reputation erode over collection practices

The Observer 20 Mar 2023
The Charles Engelhard Court atrium of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ... Thomas Hoving, left, Ibrahim Nawawy, first curator of the Cairo Museum, and J Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art, around the solid gold mask of Tutankhamun in 1976 ... Being an accomplice to art smugglers, he wrote, was a necessary role for a Met director.
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The Violin Voice of Love

Egypt Today 18 Mar 2023
In addition to the main performers, the concert featured a choir of youth from underprivileged areas in Cairo, as part of a project supported by The Daisy Jopling Music Mentorship Foundation, giving destitute youth in Cairo a chance to build their confidence through the creative arts.
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Trailblazers: Highlighting Jordanian sculpture star Mona Saudi’s work 

Arab News 17 Mar 2023
And by 1965 she was studying at the renowned École Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in the French capital, where the likes of Jacques-Louis David, Edgar Degas, and John Singer Sargent were alumni ... Her pieces can also be found in the collections of the British Museum, the National Museum for Women in the Arts, and the Ministry of Culture in Cairo.
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Moon mania

Gulf Daily News 15 Mar 2023
Since the eighties, Salah has worked in graphic art, drawing and photography using ink, oil and acrylic colours ... His artworks, acquired by collectors in Saudi Arabia, Germany, Canada, Brazil, New York and France, are also available at various institutions including the Museum of Egyptian Modern Art and the Cairo Opera House, among others.
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27th Aswan International Sculpture Symposium: Music of Aswan granite

Watani 15 Mar 2023
Aswan is a city of magical beauty that sits on the east bank of the River Nile some 800km south of Cairo, basking in the serenity of the Nile and the rugged hilly terrain that embraces it ... In 1908, the School of Fine Arts was established in Cairo, and has ever since turned out generation after generation of talented young artists.
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Leila Nseir - ‘The first female artist in Syria who really took her art seriously’

Arab News 09 Mar 2023
Art was not really seen as a ‘suitable’ career for a woman in what was a relatively conservative society. Through a government scholarship, though, Nseir earned a place at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo, from which she graduated in 1963 ... art expert Shireen Atassi told Arab News.
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Liu Shiming Art Foundation Successfully Inaugurates American University in Cairo's Participation in Liu Shiming Scholars Fund

MENA FN 08 Mar 2023
(MENAFN - Bashir Mraish Consultancy) The Liu Shiming Art Foundation has successfully inaugurated the Liu Shiming Scholars Fund at The American University in Cairo (AUC) during a ceremony held at the ... .
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Remembering Safia Al-Mohandes, the Egyptian Mother of Broadcasting

Egyptian Streets 07 Mar 2023
Born into a family of art and intellect, her father, Zaki Al-Mohandes, was a prominent Egyptian linguist ... Al-Mohandes received her Bachelor of Arts from the Department of English Language at Cairo University in 1945 ... Council for Arts, until she passed away in 2007 at the age of 84.
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Pursuing Passion: The Struggles of Upcoming Musicians in Egypt

Egyptian Streets 05 Mar 2023
El-Sedfy started his career by performing with his university’s choir at the Cairo Opera House ... Moustafa explains that despite playing alongside musicians from the Cairo Conservatoire, one of seven institutes of the Academy of Arts, being an English speaker with no understanding of Arabic, did not allow him to socialize with them.
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Saudi Arabia: Riyadh truffle festival showcases national cuisine

Gulf News 04 Mar 2023
Cairo. A truffle festival, organised by the Saudi state Culinary Arts Commission, is underway in the capital Riyadh with the aim of highlighting the link between the desert edible fungus and the national heritage and cuisine in the kingdom ... The art exhibit, meanwhile, features information on the nutritious value of truffles and its species.
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Egypt's Celebrities attend Hossam Dirar, Maher Diab’s joint exhibition at Cairo's Townhouse Gallery

Egypt Today 02 Mar 2023
Last November, Diab inaugurated the first round of Beyond Sleep and Wakefulness at Cairo's renowned Zamalek Art Gallery, during which he exhibited 40 various works of art, including paintings and sculptures that were created using different materials, including foam, minerals, rocks, and oil colors.
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Hossam Dirar, Maher Diab to hold a joint exhibition in Cairo's Townhouse Gallery

Egypt Today 26 Feb 2023
Last November, Diab inaugurated the first round of Beyond Sleep and Wakefulness at Cairo's renowned Zamalek Art Gallery, during which he exhibited 40 various works of art, including paintings and sculptures that were created using different materials, including foam, minerals, rocks, and oil colors.
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REVIEW: How ‘This Arab Life’ Speaks to the Liberation of the Arab Self and Its ...

Egyptian Streets 24 Feb 2023
Unrelenting and unforgiving is the Arab experience ... In ‘This Arab Life ... Photo credit ... IEMed ... “Painting Mural in Cairo. Murals and graffitis to protest against the regime of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, painted by students of the Academy of Arts, in Cairo, during the Revolution of 2011 on September 20, 2015 in Cairo, Egypt.” ... ....

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