Helen Stuhr-Rommereim
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Helen contributes to the culture section of Al-Masry Al-Youm English Edition. She graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio, United States with a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Russian Literature. Before moving to Egypt, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Russia. Her website is www.helenstuhrrommereim.com.
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Before Rana ElNemr began her celebrated artistic career, she worked as a photojournalist; a sense of journalistic documentation and examination continues to run through much of her work. ElNemr focuses her lens on specific urban phenomena,...
The latest exhibition at Mashrabia, "Artists From Today's Syria," opens with a painting by Syrian artist Yasser Safy of a man, drawn in deliberate, rough strokes, tilted back in his chair with a gun to his head. Jarring, disturbing and...
The Edge of Arabia group, a loose coalition of contemporary artists from Saudi Arabia, has birthed a powerful and experimental contemporary art movement in just a few years. The narrative of the group’s inception is poetic in its...
The exhibition “Visionary Africa: Art at Work” currently on display near the entrance to Al-Azhar Park is a project of high ambition, touring African capitals with the mission of bringing the cultural history of Africa straight to the...
Ayman Lotfy speaks of himself as a champion of what he calls “Fine Art Photography.” In a recent article published in the Photographic Society of America Journal, Lotfy outlined the basics of "Fine Art Photography," writing,...
A handful of minor international celebrities have risen out of the uprising that heaved through the country a year ago, but few have captured the imagination of a media hungry for the perfect revolutionary narrative like Wael Ghonim has. The Google...
Nearly a year since Hosni Mubarak’s resignation, the phrase “18 Days in Egypt” has become very familiar, with some variation of it serving as the title of maybe a dozen small documentary film projects. But "18 Days in Egypt,...
Everything about George Bahgory recalls a lost time. The renowned Egyptian painter and caricaturist (sometimes referred to as the “Grandaddy of Egyptian Caricature”) has cultivated for himself the classic image of a 19th century Parisian...
As documentary filmmaking and photography appear to be booming in Egypt, a new project has come along to provide some support and encouragement to young filmmakers. The Masry Asly Film Festival that took place at the Italian Culture Center in...
The Contemporary Image Collective downtown space was close to bursting on Wednesday night. Visitors packed into the gallery’s meeting space for a discussion on the changing urban fabric of Cairo — in particular, the desert developments...
