Fatenn Mostafa-Kanafani is a lecturer, curator, and researcher who specializes in twentieth-century Egyptian modernism. She is the author of Modern Art in Egypt: Identity and Independence, 1850-1936, published by I.B. Tauris / Bloomsbury (July 2020). Mostafa-Kanafani contributed to Mahmoud Saïd (Skira, 2017), the first catalog raisonné for a Middle Eastern artist and Daughters of the Nile: Egyptian Women Changing Their World (Cambridge Scholars, 2016. She is the founder of ArtTalks | Egypt, one of the leading multi-disciplinary art
galleries in the Arab world, that houses one of the most extensive archives on modern Egyptian art and provides management of artists’ estates, academic research, authentication, and exhibitions.
Refusing to fit into the mainstream art of her time, Gazbia Sirry replaced formal modernist training with local Egyptian art conventions to critically address women’s rights, patriarchy, social justice, and Western imperialism.
