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Legal fight lost, Ai Weiwei starts repaying fans' loans

Ai Weiwei says he has started returning money to supporters who had sent him $1.3 million over the past months

Egyptian art workshop for kids to launch Saturday

Art workshop by artist Sahar Abdallah to be held every Saturday in November at the Integrated Care Society’s Cultural Centre

Egyptian artists tackle question of 'Identity' in Hamburg exhibition

'Identity' inter-cultural exhibition at ART-NAH gallery, Germany, presents diverse works exploring the self by three Egyptian artists: Shayma Kamel, Hany Rashed and Ali Abdel-Mohsen

Swiss offer military bunkers as art storage answer

Swiss offers disused military facilities, heavily fortified during World War II against Nazi invasion, as storage locations for art

Cartoonist Ali Farzat says fear defeated in Syria

Award-winning cartoonist, brutally beaten by Al-Assad's thugs over a year ago, continues to create images of defiance

(VIDEO) China's Ai Weiwei goes 'Gangnam Style' - with handcuffs

Ai Weiwei pokes Chinese 'censors back' with a video "Gangnam Style"

Paintings by Mahmoud Said top Christie's Dubai sale

Works by father of modern Egyptian painting will lead next auction of Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art on 23-24 October

Sudanese photography exhibition opens in Paris

French photographer Claude Iverné's pictures are based on his 20-year experience in Sudan

Photopia brings photography to Cairo's Heliopolis

A new space for photography launched in June, aspiring to be a new hub in Cairo for photographers and appreciation of the image

Egypt's photography: From documentation to the gallery

Flowery tanks: Painting exhibition tackles political-domestic relations

In her debut solo exhibition 'Domestic Relations: The Couch,' visual artist Eman Abdou helps raise questions in a series of paintings that negotiate the interplay between politics and domestic life

Dia al-Azzawi's 'Sabra and Shatila Massacre'

Iraqi-born painter Dia al-Azzawi's work captures the state of abjection which led to the 1982 massacres

Riyadh’s first contemporary art space opens with an all-female cast

Alaan Artspace opened this October in the Saudi capital with Soft Power, an exhibition reflecting a growing movement of Saudi female artists determined to negotiate their place as artists and as women

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Revolutionary exhibition of Ahmed Basiouny: A martyr’s energy outlives him

At a retrospective exhibition held at the AUC’s Sharjah Art Gallery, you meet Basiony the artist, who lost his life in the heat of Egypt's uprising

Shadow Sites: Recent Work by Jananne Al-Ani

Three recent video installations by Iraqi-born artist Jananne Al-Ani are currently on view at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington DC.

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