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Discovering Reda Boudina: An emerging talent in Moroccan urban art

The art world is witnessing an increasing emergence of talented artists in…

Art as a tool for social change: Khadija Jayi’s fight for gender equality

Khadija Jayi is a Moroccan artist who uses painting to express human…

Mahi Binebine: Painting the identity and collective memory of Morocco

Mahi Binebine is an internationally renowned Moroccan artist known for using art…

Mo Baala: the artist who merges abstraction and figuration

Mo Baala is a contemporary artist whose work oscillates between abstraction and…

Collision of universes: the immersive exhibition by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Josèfa Ntjam at FACT, Liverpool

Artists Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Josèfa Ntjam have combined their worlds to offer…

Inji Efflatoun, the socialist painter and Egyptian activist

Inji Efflatoun was born in 1924 in a family of the French-speaking…

Youssef Nabil’s mesmerizing style: An exploration of memory through art

Youssef Nabil is an Egyptian artist with a passion for memory and…

Zanele Muholi: the first French retrospective of an iconic LGBTQIA+ photographer and activist

The Maison Européenne de la Photographie presents the first French retrospective dedicated…

Charlene Komuntale: a feminist digital artist in Uganda

Charlene Komuntale is a talented feminist digital artist and illustrator based in…