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Book Club: Cairo is a city that both courts and consumes its inhabitants. Published by French luxury publisher Assouline under the curation of Mai Eldib, 'Cairo Eternal' captures Cairo's charms with a pronounced grace that befits the eternal city.
DUBAI: British auction house Sotheby’s is hosting a series of talks at Diriyah Biennale Foundation’s inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah from March 4-13. Sotheby’s, one of the supporting partners of the foundation’s biennale, will host four talks and panel discussions led by the auction house’s experts in the field. The topics will span from the myriad influences of
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a href= http://www.sothebys.com target= _blank Sotheby's /a announces the appointment of Daniel Asmar as Managing Director, MENA, based in Dubai.
SHARE Two rare Mahmoud Mokhtar works are being sold at Sotheby’s this month, bookending the Egyptian modernist’s life. The first bronze, Arous El Nil (or Bride of the Nile), shows a woman with a Pharaonic headdress and scarab necklace looking to the side. It was made in the 1920s or 1930s and is the bust for the full-length sculpture that is in the collection of Paris’s Jeu de Paume. The work has the art deco stylisation that the artist is now famous for, as well as his dexterity with Egyptian symbolism. Like many intellectuals of the period, Mokhtar returned to motifs, styles and su...