The Harvest of Evelyn Ashamallah
Evelyn Ashamallah (born 1948) presides over history from her small apartment in Talaat Harb in downtown Cairo. Across the past six decades, she has demonstrated a legacy of constant negotiation…
Mariam Elnozahy
Mariam Elnozahy is a curator, researcher, and writer. She currently serves as the Artistic Director of Konsthall C in Stockholm, Sweden, where her program “Sacred Spaces” invites artists to address questions of religion and society. Previously, she ran exhibitions and programs at the Townhouse Gallery for Contemporary Art in Cairo (2016-2020). She has also curated exhibitions in Copenhagen, Oslo, Uppsala, Amsterdam, Jeddah, Basel, and London, exploring histories of globalization, development, and resource extraction. Her project titled “Whose Open Society? Understanding Neoliberalism and the Economics of Artistic Production in the Middle East and former Eastern bloc” was presented at the Kunsthalle Wien, the Warsaw Biennale, and the Matter of Art Biennale in Prague. Her writing has been published in Frieze Magazine, The Markaz Review, Hyperallergic, and MadaMasr. She was in residency at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, NL from 2022-2023, investigating the archive of Royal Dutch Shell to understand the relationship between arts and extractive industries in the twentieth century. She holds a master’s degree from the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT.