😎 GUEST Wael Nour is a Luxor-based Egyptian contemporary artist who specialises in classical watercolours. His work beautifully captures the soul of Upper Egypt. A graduate of the Faculty of Art Education at Assiut University and former student of the late Bekheit Farrag, he paints light as much as landscape, capturing the stillness and soul of rural Egypt in fluid, meditative scenes that linger in time. His work has been exhibited widely across Egypt and Europe.🔎 FIND OUT MORE Instagram & Facebook: @nour.watercolors
😎 GUEST Khaled Hamed is a full-time Egyptian visual artist based in Tunis Village. Inspired by Salvador Dali, he sculpts in bronze, wood, fibreglass, and resin, and also writes poetry. Active on the art scene since 1998, he has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the Youth Salon and the General Exhibition, and has held several solo shows at the Cairo Atelier.🔎 FIND OUT MORE Instagram: @khaled_hamed_2357👁️ ABOUT Orient Expressed Orient Expressed is produced by Emmy Plaschy, to bring a new perspective and build bridges between the worlds of Europe and SWANA – with a focus on art, culture, and language.
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Yousra Hafad is an Egyptian-Moroccan artist, based in Luxor, Egypt. She expresses women's innermost feelings through metaphorical works. The palatial and elegant women of her oil paintings convey a sense of stability, strength, and boldness.
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Instagram: @yousra.hafad
Facebook: yousra.hafad
Find video episode here: https://youtu.be/b-Rvfos2Kbg
Full article here:https://emmyplaschy.com/yousra-hafad-painting-womens-feelings/
الفنان أحمد عبد الفتاح، مصور وفنان مصري معاصر، يعمل مدرس مساعد في كلية الفنون الجميلة بجامعة الأقصر. حاز على درجة الماجستير في التصوير ووسائط الميديا الجديدة، ويسعى للحصول على الدكتوراه في مجال الواقع الافتراضي. يعد من أوائل الفنانين الذين يعملون على فن الواقع الافتراضي في مصر، حيث يستخدمه و يدمجه كوسيلة فنية. عرضت أعماله دولياً وفاز بجوائز عديده، بما في ذلك جوائز بنك الأهلي المصري لفن البورتريه. يعبر في أعماله عن تجربته الفنية بأبعاد مختلفة، رافضًا التصنيف الفني المحدد ويمزج بين الواقعي والافتراضي. يستخدم سيكولوجية الأشياء البصرية في أعماله، مع التركيز على التجريب وخلق إيقاعات لونية في إطار واقعي.
المراجع
الفنانين المفضلين:
ليونارد دي فينشي، بيكاسو، لوسيان فرويد، إيجون شيله، جوستاف كليمت، محمود مختار، محمود سعيد، سيف وانلي.
🔎 معرفة المزيد _Instagram: @ahmed.abdelfattah
😎 GUEST Shaimaa Fekry is an Egyptian artist who “paints with photos”. Born in Cairo into a family of artists, she showcases the beauty of her hometown, its timelessness and its daily life through her expert eye and the lens of her beloved camera.
Her first exhibition was in El Sawy Culture Wheel with a group of photographers, early 2010. She also participated in the Youth Salon Exhibition in Cairo Opera House in 2013. Her deep sensitivity and search for beauty, which show in her pictures, will surely catch your eye.
ℹ️ REFERENCES In partnership with “Cairo Biography initiative”, she exhibited her pictures taken in the same city locations as 19th century painter Robert Hay, comparing past and present.
Omar Khairat – Emraah Motalaka - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31r3CMSF-bE
كوكو واوا - عاليا صالح (as sung by the artist) - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2z53ps
Mazinger مازنچر (the cartoon) - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7re49z
Naguib Mahfouz’s recommended works:
بين القصرين 1 (Palace Walk)
قصر الشوق 2 (Palace of Desire)
السكرية 3 (Sugar Street)
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Instagram: @shaimaafekry
😎 L'INVITÉ
eL Seed est un artiste qui se pose beaucoup de questions sur lui-même et sur le monde. Il utilise la sagesse des écrivains, poètes et philosophes du monde entier pour transmettre des messages de paix et souligner les points communs de l'existence humaine. Son art fait vivre les histoires des communautés qu'il rencontre à travers le monde et vise à créer un lien entre les peuples du monde entier.
🔎 EN SAVOIR PLUS
Instagram: @elseed
Ses recommandations: 🎧 "Unreasonable hospitality" - The Next Big Idea 📖 "Les identités meurtrières" - Amin Maalouf
Interview vidéo YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmPLKngaQkM
Article : https://emmyinthemix.com/el-seed-ecrire-les-mots-decrire-les-maux-des-autres/
😎 GUEST Linda Krockenberger - is a German expat who studied hotel management and was climbing the career ladder in Dubai. After she fell in love with camel riding, she decided to pursue her passion full-time, ultimately becoming the co-founder of the UAE's first camel riding school, in 2021. 🔎 FIND OUT MORE
Her recommendations: 🎧 "The Mettleset" podcast 📖 "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho School Instagram: @adcrc.me School website: https://adcrc.me/
YouTube interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZZD4qgBPhQ
Blog interview: https://emmyinthemix.com/the-german-expat-who-co-founded-the-first-camel-riding-school/
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Rawan Anani is a Palestinian watercolour artist, now based in Canada. Her work focuses on representing the Palestinian heritage through its cities and landmarks, its culture and its women. 🔎 FIND OUT MORE
YouTube interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huzC-zgLSMs
Blog interview: https://emmyinthemix.com/rawan-anani-painting-the-colours-of-palestine/
Instagram: @rawan_anani_artgallery Website: www.facebook.com/rawananani.net
😎 GUEST Abdelrahman Elshahed is a Saudi artist, calligrapher and architect, born and currently based in Mecca. His works focus on spiritual geometry (Arabic calligraphy) and on ways to convey multiple concepts which are important for humanity through mixed media forms and deep symbolism. 🔎 FIND OUT MORE
YouTube interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvBJYT6zg-U
Blog interview: https://emmyinthemix.com/abdelrahman-elshahed-portraying-the-language-of-angels/
Instagram: @elshahed_ Website: abdelrahmanelshahed.com
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Faisal Alkheriji is a Saudi artist from and living in Jeddah. He paints characters mixing traditional Saudi cultural items (clothing, events, food) with cubist and surrealist techniques. He was introduced to painting at the age of 6 during a summer camp and later on took art classes. Inspired by Picasso, Godard and Condo, he uses acrylic paint on canvas to “represent culture differently” (his motto).
🔎 FIND OUT MORE YouTube interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnTkUr8S0O0 Blog interview: https://emmyinthemix.com/faisal-alkheriji-the-saudi-cubist-painter/
Instagram: @artbyfaisal Website: artbyfaisal.com His artwork Theeban - ذيبان: https://www.instagram.com/p/CI8HsYdFyAC/–
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Wissam Shawkat is an Iraq-born and Dubai-based artist whose energetic work encompasses calligraphy, typography, and design. He developed his own script: "Al Wissam". He also collaborated with Hermès on the perfume “Eau des Merveilles”, turned “Ambre des Merveilles”, a limited edition for the Gulf countries. To describe the way he experiments with letters, he coined the term
calligraformism: creating a dialogue between western abstract art and the tradition of Arabic calligraphy.
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YouTube interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbAlAERbY8o
Blog interview: https://emmyinthemix.com/wissam-shawkat-turning-arabic-calligraphy-around/
Instagram: @wissamshawkat
Website: wissamshawkat.com
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Noura Bin Saidan is a Saudi visual, mural, and street artist, who also experiments with installations and graffiti with 3D mapping. She is the author of many mural artworks in Riyadh's shopping centre "The Boulevard" and participated in 2019 Middle Beast and 2021 Riyadh Season festivals.
Noura is on a mission to expand her art outside of her country and show people what Saudi culture is.
🔎 FIND OUT MORE
YouTube interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J28tS2Frk_Q
Blog interview: https://emmyinthemix.com/noura-bin-saidan-first-mural-artist-riyadh/
Instagram: @nourabinsaidan
Online shop: salla.sa/nsart
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