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Request QuoteAlana Chloe Esposito is an independent writer interested in international affairs and diplomacy, sustainable development, cultural diplomacy, and the arts. A U.N Correspondent for Women’s eNews, she has reported on women’s empowerment, contemporary art, and sustainable development from across the Middle East and Europe as well as in and around her home base, New York. She holds a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a M.A. in International Affairs from Sciences Po Paris.
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Record turnout and energy at this year's Commission on the Status of Women clashed with sobering reminders of unfinished business in a 20-year-old gender equality agenda and new virulent threats to girls and women.
Refashioning the iconic visual symbols of her native Egypt into contemporary jewelry designs has become Ms. Fahmy’s trademark. The story of Azza Fahmy jewelry begins at the 1969 Cairo International Book Fair, where Ms. Fahmy stumbled across a book on medieval European jewelry and instantly realized that she found her calling in jewelry design
This year, for the first time among the nearly 300 galleries fine-tuning their last-minute preparations for Art Basel, there are two galleries from the Gulf region: Green Art Gallery and Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde.The inclusion of the galleries, both from Dubai, has signaled for many a sign of the maturation of the Middle Eastern art scene and its increasing global presence.
Emilia and Ilya Kabakov’s Ship of Tolerance is a 66-foot wooden vessel featuring a colorful sail, stitched together from paintings on 30” x 30” silk squares by New York City public elementary school students. The paintings express notions of peace and tolerance and hope for a brighter future.
A diamond in the rough, the Egyptian Museum of Modern Art aims to showcase Egypt’s contribution to 20th- and 21st-century art. Overshadowed by Egypt’s pharaonic and medieval Islamic heritage, and the more recent upsurge in interest in contemporary Arab art, the country’s modernist artists elicit scant respect.
While thousands of Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square last month to demand that the government release the blogger and activist Alaa Abdel Fattah from prison, Cairo’s fashion-forward crowd ventured onto the streets for a different reason: to shop.
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