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The first international survey of work by the late Armenian-Egyptian studio photographer Van Leo is currently on display in the Hammer Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles as a collaboration between the museum and AUC’s Rare Books and Special Collections Library, which holds the Van Leo collection, with additional collaborative support from the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut. Becoming Van Leo is showing until November 5 and includes ephemera and some photographs printed from negatives for the first time. 

The a href= http://hammer.ucla.edu target= _blank Hammer Museum /a is opening Becoming Van Leo, the first survey of the Armenian Egyptian photogr

A searing thriller that examines the pitfalls of human instinct, Tarik Saleh's Cairo Conspiracy is a film of firsts. Set in the seat of Muslim knowledge Al-Azhar, Saleh's honest portrayal of faith and power has film critics lauding his brilliance.

Armenians have a rich history in Egypt dating back to the Fatimid era and they have made significant contributions to the country

Van Leo’s portraits capture a lost world and are in a class of their own, writes Raphael Cormack