Nadine Abdel Ghaffar, founder and director of Art d’Egypte, had good intentions when she launched an itinerant art exhibition of public art commissions in downtown Cairo in 2017. Calling the show “a ...

One of the most important artifacts from the early history of Egypt, a remarkable, 2-foot tall limestone statue of a king who reunified the country nearly 5,000 years ago, will be on exhibition at the ...

Visitors to New York’s Central Park have one less sight to see this summer, as the its 69-foot-tall Egyptian obelisk, popularly-known as Cleopatra’s Needle, is currently shrouded in scaffolding as it ...

Rock engraving of a Protodynastic boat from Wadi Abu Subeira. Credit: Dorian Vanhulle, AKAP A rock art panel near Aswan, Egypt, may depict a rare example of an elite individual from the First Dynasty, ...

Cairo — As I write this story, I am in my room overlooking the main square of Cairo, ironically called Tahrir Square, which means Liberty in Arabic. The square is buzzing with what news agencies ...

The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something eight-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, ...

Hamed Nada’s “Folkways” (nd) in When Arts Become Liberty: The Egyptian Surrealists (1938–65) exhibition (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) The calls to revise the canon of art history have ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Starting Friday, a trip to see the mummies and Egyptian artifacts at the St. Louis Art Museum will not include an odd detour ...

Nadine Abdel Ghaffar is passionate about fusing fashion, art, Egyptian culture- and presenting it to Egyptians and the world. Egypt’s seven-thousand-year history brings the northeastern African nation ...