Mai Elwakil
Culture editor
Mai Elwakil is a writer based in Cairo. She graduated from the American University in Cairo (AUC) in 2006 with a major in Economics and a minor in Art and Business Administration. Elwakil has worked in development and corporate banking. Over the past six years, she has done volunteer and paid work with a number of cultural institutions including the AUC galleries, Townhouse Gallery and the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities. She was assistant curator to Invisible Publics exhibition at the Townhouse Gallery in May 2010 and organizer of the Cairo Complaints Choir. Elwakil is also a team member at Medrar TV.
Contributions
News
Last Sunday was a good day for Egyptian cinema as two low-budget Egyptian movies, "Microphone" and "Hawi" (The Juggler) received prestigious awards at the Carthage Film Festival and Doha Tribeca Film Festival respectively.
"...
The Human Body Exhibition: Contemporary Vision that opened last Tuesday at the Palace of Arts in Zamalek--one of the country’s largest state run galleries--has been highly criticized in the Egyptian press so far. The show, which presents the...
Visitors should be glad to know that the Hiwar (Dialogue) group exhibition at Darb 1718 is not just another attempt at intercultural dialogue, a topic that has been exhausted in contemporary art exhibitions from or about the Middle East. The show,...
I want to be an astronaut, an artist, a marine biologist, the president. I want to travel around to see new places, meet interesting people and experience different cultures. Those might have been some of the answers Turkish artist Burcu Bilgiç...
The book Bechtel fi Bilad al-Arab (Bechtel in the Land of the Arabs) tells the story of the great adventurer Bechtel who, in his numerous journeys, explores magical and untamed lands. This time, Bechtel is in Arabia, a mysterious, exotic place with...
The Coptic Museum in Cairo has more to offer its visitors than is generally thought. Still, only a small group of Egyptian school children and Coptic families, who visit the museum after church service, get to realize that the Coptic period is not...
A painting of a baby doll missing an eyeball, suspended upside down beside a harlequin marionette; a white butterfly standing on the arm of a doll missing a ring finger and right toes--these are only a few of the pieces in Doll, an exhibition by...
“These electron images of plant life were realized without a camera in total darkness,” reads the invitation to the Metaflora exhibition currently showing at the American University in Cairo’s (AUC) Photographic Gallery, located at...
Portrait photography has long been concerned with celebrity. Early photographs aimed to capture the stature of their subjects who were limited to a privileged class, as photography was an expensive medium. In Egypt, the first use of photography was...
Last night, at the age of 71 and following a long illness, Egyptian painter, writer and children’s books illustrator Adli Rizkallah passed away at the Salam International Hospital. Rizkallah devoted over 40 years of his career to exploring the...
