Our founder Nadine Abdelghaffar speaks to H.E Ambassador Paul Garnier, Swiss Ambassador to Egypt. They talk about his background, his incredible career trajectory, the importance of cultural diplomacy and the endeavors that the Embassy of Switzerland in Egypt support. 

Lecture given by Prof. Dominique Lämmli, titled "How art affects society". 

Lämmli is an artist, philosopher, and educator herself, she works with a comparative and solution-oriented mindset. She has been working for over a decade on art in global contexts and the pressure being brought to bear on existing art notions. She has run practice-based and practice-led research, art and applied projects in joint learning, transdisciplinary, and transcultural settings in Switzerland, Germany, Malawi, Bhutan, India, Hong Kong, China and elsewhere as part of the FOA-FLUX (foa-flux.net) research.

A conversation with the Egyptian contemporary artist, Rania Ezzat, in which she talks about her practice, diverse experience in the art world, and her current ongoing project. 

Noura Abla is a Zurich-based curator, theorist and art mediator. She earned her M.A. in Curatorial Studies and Art Mediation from the Zurich University of the Arts. Abla is active in the arts and culture field in Switzerland as well as in the Middle East. She currently the curatorial assistant at the Kunstmuseum Thun in Switzerland and artistic director of the Fayoum Art Center in Egypt.

Lecture given by Yannick Lintz, director of Islamic Art Department of Louvre Museum, about the Islamic heritage under the spotlight of today's art. 

Amir Youssef is a visual artist, whose practice is concerned with media archaeology and robotics. He works with a variety of media including video, installation, and sculpture, always exploring aspects of movement and kinetics.

Nadine Abdelghaffar in conversation with French Ambassador Stéphane Romatet. They discuss the importance of cultural diplomacy. 

We would like to thank the French Embassy and the French Institution in Egypt for making this podcast possible. 

Our founder Nadine Abdelghaffar, speaks to Yannick Lintz, director of Islamic Arts at the Louvre Paris.

They will be talking about Yannick's educational background and career that spans the industries of art and education and lands at the Louvre where she is now heading the department of Islamic Art.

This episode features Hany El Sayed and Taha Nasr, both of whom are Egyptian sculptors and artists who worked on "Art by the Sea,”which is a symposium hosted by Art D'Égypte at one of Egypt's top beach destinations in Almaza Bay.  

Our founder Nadine Abdelghaffar speaks to Sarah El Battouty, an award winning architect and expert in the field of Green and eco-friendly buildings and furniture. She was selected as a Member of the Board of the American University of Cairo Department of Engineering School of Architecture and was appointed as a senior Advisor to the Egyptian President focusing on sustainable community development.

They talk about Sarah's background, her incredible career trajectory and the aim of her companies, ECOnsult & MuBun.