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1963
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Born in Cairo, Egypt
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1981 - 1990
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Followed the evening classes of the Cairo Fine Arts while studying medicine
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2005
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Fulbright Fellow, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, USA (visiting artist)
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2005
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Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art, Limoges, France (visiting artist)
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2009
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Attained MFA in New Media from Transart Institute / Danube University Krems, Austria
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2009
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Rockefeller Bellagio Center, Italy (visiting artist)
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2009
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McColl Center for Visual Arts, North Carolina, USA (visiting artist)
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Expositions sélectionnées |
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2010 |
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XII Cairo biennale, Egypt |
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2010 |
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Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain |
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2010 |
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Tarjama/Translation, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
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2010 |
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The Presidents: Remix, Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland |
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2010 |
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What’s Happening Now?: Contemporary Art from Egypt, Casa Arabe, Madrid, Spain |
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2010 |
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IN/FLUX: Awkward Conversations, 17th African Film Festival, New Museum, New York, USA |
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2010 |
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Categorical Imperatives, The Guild Gallery, Bombay, India |
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2010 |
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Resistance(s) III, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France |
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2010 |
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First Temple of Flight, Almasar Gallery, Cairo, Egypt (solo) |
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2010 |
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Gods & Superheroes, Galleria Luz & Suarez, Madrid, Spain (solo) |
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2009 |
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Tarjama / Translation, Queens Museum, New York, USA |
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2009 |
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2nd Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece |
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2009 |
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Icons Reloaded, Galerie ElyseeArts, Liege, Belgium |
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2009 |
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Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK |
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2008 |
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Borderlines, Le Violon Blue Gallery, London, UK |
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2008 |
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Guangzhou Triennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, China |
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2008 |
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Breaking News, F&A Projects, Paris, France |
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2008 |
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Cairoscape: Images, Imagination and Imaginary of a Contemporary Mega City, |
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2008 |
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Neighbours in Dialogue, Collegium Artisticum, Skenderija Centre, Sarajevo, Bosnia |
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2008 |
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Om Kalsoum la quatrième pyramide, Institut du Mode Arabe, Paris, France |
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2008 |
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Collectiepresentatie XXI, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium |
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2008 |
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Trilogie Méditerranéenne: from Athens to Marseille to Cairo, Palais des Arts, Marseille, France |
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2008 |
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Arab Artists Between Italy & the Mediterranean, Italian Cultural Institute, Damascus, Beirut & |
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2008 |
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Gates of the Mediterranean, Palazzo Piozzo Rivoli, Turin, Italy |
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2008 |
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Desert Snow & other stories, Galleria San Carlo, Milan, Italy (solo) |
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2007 |
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More Chromosomes, Galleria Il Divano Di George, Modena, Italy (solo) |
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2007 |
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Contact Zone, Bamako Museum of Art, Bamako, Mali |
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2007 |
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The Present Out of the Past Millennia, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany |
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2007 |
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Recognize, Contemporary Platform, London, UK |
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2007 |
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This Day, Tate Modern, London, UK |
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2007 |
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Sharjah Biennale, UAE |
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2007 |
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Without Title, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium |
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2007 |
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Neighbours in Dialogue, Istanbul, Turkey |
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2006 |
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Singapore Biennale, Singapore |
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2006 |
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North-East to South-West, Espace Doual’Art, Douala, Cameroon (solo) |
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2006 |
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Dakar Biennale, Senegal |
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2006 |
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Images of the Middle East, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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2006 |
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Philadelphia Chromosome, Galleria San Carlo, Milan, Italy (solo) |
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2006 |
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Kartomania & Tout-en-Karton, French Cultural Center, Cairo (solo) |
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2005 |
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French memories, CCM Jean Gagnant, Limoges, France (solo) |
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2005 |
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African Memories, Chantiers de la Lune, Toulon, France (solo) |
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2005 |
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Mediterranean Encounters, Messina, Italy |
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2004 |
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Dak’Art 2004 Dakar Biennale, Senegal (Francophonie Prize) |
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2004 |
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Kartonopolis & some 10 years later, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (solo) |
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2002 |
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Nut, the President’s Necktie & Batman, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (solo) |
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2001 |
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Cairo Modern Art in Holland, Fortiscircus Theater, Den Haag, Holland |
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2000 |
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Icons of the Second Floor, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (solo) |
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1999 |
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Halfway Home & the Electronic Gods, Guezira Art Center, Cairo (solo) |
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1999 |
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Faster Than the City, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (solo) |
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1998 |
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Visions of a Rusty Memory, Cairo-Berlin Gallery, Cairo (solo) |
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1998 |
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Unimportant Items Cairo, Atelier, Cairo (solo) |
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1992 |
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Steps on Desert Sands, Akhenaton III Gallery, Cairo (solo) |
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1990 |
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Prisoner of Freedom, Cairo Atelier, Cairo (solo) |
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1989 |
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A Tale of Two Leos, Nile Gallery, Cairo (solo) |
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1987 |
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Délires French Cultural Center, Cairo (solo) |
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