Cultural Conversations by Art D'Egypte

Cultural Conversation is a podcast produced by art consultancy Art D'Egypte talking to leaders, disruptors and pioneer in the local, regional and global creative economy. The podcast aims to shed light on the movers and shakers who are building and reimagining our cultural landscape as a region.

PR & Personal branding 09/05/2024

Peerless Paths of Art 09/05/2024

Behind the patterns of Missoni 08/15/2024

Silver Threads: The Art of Luxury with Christofle 08/08/2024

What is UNESCO w/ The Director of UNESCO Cairo, Dr.Nuria Sanz 08/01/2024

What is UNESCO w/ The Director of UNESCO Cairo, Dr.Nuria Sanz Nuria Sanz Gallego, archaeologist and anthropologist, is an international civil servant at the United Nations. She holds a PhD in Prehistory from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) and a PhD in Human Ecology from the University of Tübingen (Germany). She has developed her professional career as an expert in natural and cultural heritage management in multilateral institutions such as the Council of Europe, European Union, UNESCO and FAO since 1995. She is editor and author of specialized publications on public international law for the preservation of biological and cultural heritage, on traditional and indigenous knowledge and author and editor of more than 40 publications on World Heritage, especially on issues related to human evolution and cultural diversity. In 2009 she was appointed UNESCO's Global Coordinator for Rock Art Heritage. Throughout her professional career she has directed the Latin America and Caribbean Unit of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, from where she has coordinated the largest nomination project for the UNESCO List: Qhapaq Ñan, The Andean Road System, a process in which the largest network of anthropological knowledge in the Andes was established in the framework of the World Heritage Convention. She was appointed Director and Representative of UNESCO in Mexico in 2013, from where she directed among others the scientific programme on the Origin of Food Production and Sustainable Development. In Mexico she has implemented more than 30 projects on indigenous knowledge, on bio-cultural heritage of peasant communities, on crafts and on linguistic diversity. She has coordinated the UNESCO thematic programme on Sciences and Human Evolution HEADS (Human Evolution: Dispersals, Adaptations and Social Developments) establishing a multidisciplinary network active to date of 250 world scientists in paleoanthropology, genetics, human ecology, archaeology, zoology, palynology, geomorphology and linguistics. She is the editor of 7 volumes of UNESCO on Human Evolution. She has been appointed as chief curator of the UNESCO Art Collection, developed its action plan and published two catalogues of the collection and a monograph on African art. Invited by FAO, she is currently developing the UNESCO-FAO Action Plan as Senior Advisor in the FAO Department of Biodiversity and Climate Change in Rome. She is now working on the evolutionary history of food since prehistoric times, the importance of traditional knowledge in the production and consumption of food and its contribution to the consequences of climate change. /episode/index/show/artdegypte/id/32388082

The Art Guides 07/18/2024

World of Gemology w/ Mehdi Benbrahim 07/10/2024

Curating Beauty: The Intersection of Art & Jewelry 05/23/2024

Women in Art Scene w/ Menna Geneidy 04/16/2024

Eye on Arab Art 12/13/2023

The Resounding Conversation between Art and Environment 12/13/2023

Tarek Attia, Director of Tahrir Culture Center 02/05/2023

Fares Akkad, Regional Director MENA - Meta 01/22/2023

Dr. Ridha Moumni & Arne Everwijn (from Christie's) 01/15/2023

Vilma Jurkute 01/09/2023

Zeinab AlHashemi, Artist 01/05/2023

Zeinab AlHashemi, Artist Zeinab Alhashemi is an Emirati conceptual artist based in Dubai. Since graduating from Zayed University with a BA in arts and science specialising in multimedia design, she has become known for her large-scale contemporary site-specific installations. Alhashemi is fascinated with capturing the transformation of the UAE and examines the contrast and interdependence between the abstract, geometric shapes of urbanism and the organic forms associated with her country’s natural landscape. Since the days of Alhashemi’s childhood, the familiarity of traditional scenery and nature has largely been disturbed to facilitate the rise of the man-made. In her experimental installations, she searches for a new identity appropriate to the modern condition and deconstructs the viewers’ understanding of their surroundings, introducing an alternative point of view, and creating a new perception of that reality. Drawing inspiration from the natural topography of the UAE, Alhashemi experiments with a variety of materials to position the viewer over the intangible boundary between the natural and the artificial. While colour and texture make her work reminiscent of the traditional landscape, such familiarity is disturbed by the striking contrast of industrial materials that remind the viewer of human interference. Alhashemi’s work captures the essence of her homeland today, striking a delicate balance between modernism and tradition in an unexpectedly harmonious coexistence. She has participated in numerous art fairs and festivals such as Sikka Art Fair, Dubai Design Week, and Sharjah Biennial 11 and was recently commissioned by the Institute de France and the Department of Culture and Tourism (DCT) Abu Dhabi to showcase her work at the inauguration of the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Currently she is one of the artists in residence for SETI-Institute in San Francisco, and her work was featured in EXPO2020 Dubai at the Sustainable Pavilion. She also participated in Desert X in AlUla, KSA in 2022. /episode/index/show/artdegypte/id/25515153