Author

Magda Saadedin

is a painter and professor at the Egyptian Higher Institute of the Arts where she has been the head of the Art Criticism Department since 2009. Saadedin has exhibited her artwork extensively in both Cairo and Paris and has published numerous books on art and on her own reflections and frequent travels.

Articles by this author

issue 8

Articulating Art

Writing About Modern Art in Egypt

The Egyptian modern art movement was accompanied by a small but influential circle of art critics and journalists who attempted not only to discuss but occasionally to define the parameters of Egyptian art.