Anna Boghiguian is one of the leading contemporary Egyptian-Canadian artists of Armenian origin. Born in Egypt to an Armenian family, she studied economics and political science in 1969 at the American University in Cairo, while simultaneously taking painting classes with…
Many of the city’s most famous structures, such as the American Colony Hotel and the Rockefeller Museum, are decorated with tiles The Armenian ceramic craft industry in Jerusalem is credited to David Ohannessian (1884–1953), who founded the pottery in…
Egypt is one of the world’s lesser-known antique rug centers, but lesser known does not imply inferiority in terms of quality, color, design, and historical robustness. Perhaps Egyptian rugs remain unnoticed in the world of antique rugs because Egypt is…
Lily Awam is a young, multi-talented Saudi artist who sometimes paints on walls and pottery, besides singing Rap and Reggae in Arabic and English and being a composer, author, graphic designer, and social media administrator in Darb 1718 A…
Krikor Partamian (July 27, 1921–2010) was a talented amateur opera singer and actor who acted in plays. He was born in Turkey and may have been two years old upon arriving in Egypt. He had a childhood and young…
Hossam Sakr is an Egyptian artist who explores the routes of human communication by expressing himself through portrait art. His artworks are expressed by sophisticated techniques and a great sense of colour Sakr was influenced by the disciplined art…
Vahan Telpian was a mystic artist who practiced painting, sculpting, and decorative design. Born in 1963 to an Egyptian Armenian family, inheriting the Armenian artistic genes, and growing up in multicultural Cairo, he was an art lover. Inspired by his…
Born in 1999 in Cairo, Egypt, Melanie Partamian is an Egyptian, Armenian and Greek visual artist and aspiring curator. Partamian holds a BA in Political Science from Cairo University and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, as well as a masters degree in…
