Culturvator Conversations

Farrah El Dibany is an opera singer, born in Alexandria, Egypt.      El Dibany joined the Arts Centre of the Library of Alexandria in 2005 and then in 2010, the Hanns-Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. She is the first Egyptian to win the Prix Lyrique de l’AROP, which is the best opera singer award awarded by the Paris Opera house. In 2016, she joined the Paris Opera troupe, becoming the first Egyptian national to ever join the prestigious academy.      She won a number of other awards, including a prize at the 2017 Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg Festival and the Wagner Stiftung Prize in 2018. Now, the Egyptian mezzo-soprano is a jury member for the German music competition ‘Jugend Musiziert,’ for the national round of the Eastern Mediterranean region.

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Ahmed El Shaer is a multi-disciplinary artist , was born in 1981. He got his B.A. in Art Culture Art College, Helwan University. He  practices spans the mediums of installation, photography, sound, and the moving image with a particular interest in digital technologies. His videos combine Machinima, stock footage, 3D animation and experimental soundscapes, and have been shown at international venues including the Venice Biennale, Bamako Biennale, Cairotronica, the Guggenheim, the Museum of the Moving Image, and Casa Arabe in Madrid. He recently completed a residency in the Game Lab at the University of Los Angeles California, as part of a Fulbright research program.

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Hany is a self taught artist, was born in Cairo in 1975. Rashed worked closely with renowned artist Mohamed Abla - who became his mentor. By experimenting with a wide range of techniques, such as collage, monotype, painting, and sculpture, Rashed continuously reinvents himself and his work. At the beginning of the 2011 Revolution, Rashed played a leading role in documenting part of the contemporary Egyptian history through his sarcastic production. After his comic character "Asa7by"(2012), making fun of the abuse of visual Internet memes. Then, he comes back to explore with much irony the multiple facets of Egyptian life with his gypsum vehicles that re-enact the jumbled chaos of Cairo, the hubbub of the city, and thus the voices of the people. Some of Rashed’s work forms part of the private collection of the Tate Modern Gallery in London. The artist has held several workshops in many Egyptian galleries and elsewhere. His work has been featured all around Europe and Egypt.

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Yasser is an Intellectual Property (IP) Lawyer & Researcher and Art Market Law Consultant as well as a Certified IP Trainer by the World IP Organization (WIPO, Geneva). As a Senior IP Lawyer, Yasser is admitted to the Egyptian Bar Association and has a long experience working as an Senior IP Attorney (& Junior Partner) for a leading full-service IP Law Firm based in Cairo, ranked as a Top Tier (1) Law Firms in Egypt in the field of IP by the Legal 500 EMEA 2019 & 2020 edition. In addition to his IP Practice, he is a Certified IP Trainer by the WIPO since 2014 at the National IP Academy (NIPA, Egypt) and Tutor at WIPO Academy (DL-101AEG), with experience in both designing and delivering practical IP Training Programs for diversified audiences in Egypt & abroad. As an Art Market Law Consultant, he has developed a unique experience in the field of Art Market Law consultations and litigations. He is working as a Legal Advisor for several Artists, Collectors, Galleries, Art Foundations and Art Market Professionals in the Middle East on issues related to Copyright & Art Market Laws and related matters, He is the Legal Advisor to the International Project of the first catalogue raisonné for a Middle Eastern artist "Mahmoud Saïd Catalogue Raisonné" published by Skira Editore (Milano) in 201

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Watson was born in Canada , he is an independent curator, art advisor and cultural event marketing specialist in New York, has discovered art stars and brought them to the attention of new audiences. His area of curatorial expertise is in spotting emerging visual artists with outstanding potential, many of whom are now seen internationally in the blue chip category. Watson has advised several art collecting programs in institutional settings and for private residences, as well as assisted more than a hundred major brands in creating unique outreach programs to new audiences. Also, He has delivered hundreds of lectures on contemporary art to museum trustees and business groups, as well as for art school audiences.

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Fatma took her first singing class when she was fourteen with Soprano Neveen Allouba, she took her from Cairo to the hallowed boards of Milan’s Teatro alla Scala and selection as one of BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists in 2016. She became an exclusive Warner Recording Artist in 2019 and her debut studio album, El Nour, was released in October 2020. After receiving her Bachelor of Music from the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin in 2013, Fatma was awarded a scholarship to study at the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala in Milan, becoming the first Egyptian soprano to perform on that iconic stage. She represented Egypt on Human Right’s Day in 2014 and 2018 at the United Nations in Geneva and in 2017 at the Luxor Temple and sang for children's right to education and dignity through music. In 2016, she received an honorary award from Egypt’s National Council for Women. Later in the same year she became the first Egyptian opera singer ever to be awarded the state’s Creativity Award, one of Egypt’s highest accolades, for her outstanding artistic achievement on an international level. In the past years she has won several major singing competitions including the 8th Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition (Dublin, 2016), the 7th Leyla Gencer International Opera Competition (Istanbul, 2012), 2nd prize at the 16th International Robert Schumann Lied Competition (Zwickau, 2012) and the Grand Prix at the 1st Giulio Perotti International Opera Competition (Germany, 2011)

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Peter Der Manuelian is Barbara Bell Professor of Egyptology at Harvard University, and director of the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East. His Giza Project at Harvard presents online past, present, and future archaeological activity at the Giza Pyramids. His interests include visualization and digital humanities approaches to the ancient world. Publications include Digital Giza. Visualizing the Pyramids; Mastabas of Nucleus Cemetery G 2100; Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis; Living in the Past: Studies in Archaism of the Egyptian Twenty-sixth Dynasty; and Studies in the Reign of Amenophis II. He has also written several childrens’ books.

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Bobby Chinn is an international chef, television presenter, restaurateur. He was born in New Zealand, half Egyptian half Chinese. He got his BA in Finance & Economics in England. He worked in many jobs until he found his love and talent for cooking then he became a culinary celebrity across Asia and the Middle East , a host of Discovery TLC's "World Cafe", and now, as a judge on MBC's "Top Chef Middle East". He opened two award-winning restaurants in Vietnam – "Restaurant Bobby Chinn" in Hanoi (2001) and "Bobby Chinn Saigon" in Ho Chi Minh (2011), then relocated to London in 2014 and opened "The House of Ho" Vietnamese restaurant.

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Natalia Kapchuk is a Russian-born London-based artist. She works in mixed media, exploring ecological issues, global effects of pollution as well as protection of the environment. From her early childhood, she took interest in art and gradually learned the basics of sculpting in ceramic. She went to Children’s art school where she studied academic drawing, painting, composition and the history of art. After receiving her BA in international relations , she turns back her attention to the art business and starts creating new art pieces in her studio in Dubai, UAE. Furthermore, Natalia took arts courses at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (London, UK) in 2017 followed by The Chelsea College of Arts (London, UK). Also, She keeps drawing attention to important environmental issues affecting the future of our planet, and seeks to promote harmonious coexistence of humans in every corner of the world

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Aimee is the associate digital editor at The Art Newspaper and a co-producer of the Week in Art podcast. She specialises in art from the Middle East and North Africa, having studied Arabic and Middle East studies and contemporary African and Asian art.

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