Honoured and deeply grateful to AWITA (Association of Women in the Arts) @awitalondon for this recognition as part of the AWITA Honours: Leaders in Culture 2026.
As a global network advancing women across the arts and cultural ecosystem, AWITA’s commitment to supporting and sustaining the field makes this especially meaningful. To be recognised alongside such an extraordinary group of women, so many dear friends; each shaping today’s cultural landscape and future narratives—is MASSIVELY humbling.
Thank you to the nominating committee — Nadia Samdani, Kimberly Drew, Melissa Gronlund @mkgronlund , Valeria Napoleone @valerianapoleone , Jessica Silverman, Lang Xiao, Same Mdluli, Camille Morineau, and Sarah Harrelson @sarahgharrelson — and to the wider AWITA community for this acknowledgement, and for building a network that not only leads, but actively strengthens the field around it.
Grateful to be part of this moment, marking ten years of championing women, Egyptians and Arabs in the arts globally.
Massive Thank YOU TO my personal photographer 📸: @danafarouki
الأغنية “الدنيا ربيع” بصوت سعاد حسني هي من فيلم:
🎥 أميرة حبي أنا (سنة 1974)
الأغنية من أشهر أغاني الربيع في العالم العربي🌸🌸 - كتبها الشاعر - صلاح جاهين 🎼🎼
One of my favorite holidays - Sham ElNessim 🌸🐣
Sham El Nessim: 4,000+ years of Egyptians saying
“let’s go outside and eat questionable fish” 🌸🐟
It’s the ultimate spring reset; where we consume:
🥚 Eggs = new beginnings
🧅 Onions = protection (and instant social distancing)
🐟 Feseekh = high risk, high reward
🌿 Greens = main character growth
Ancient Egyptians really said: nature, food, and good vibes only… and honestly, we’ve been copying them ever since 😌🌞
📸 Image from the Tomb of Nebamun (18th Dynasty, around 1350 BCE), discovered in ancient Thebes - present day West Bank, Luxor
#shamelnessim #easter #ancientegypt
HAPPY EASTER 🐣🐣🌸🌸
The Last Supper (1964) / La Cène (1964) by Marguerite Nakhla is a powerful modern interpretation of a pivotal biblical moment. Painted in oil on wood (130 × 120 cm), the work captures the tense and intimate scene described in the Gospel of St. John (13:21–27), when Jesus reveals that one of his disciples will betray him. Nakhla’s stylized figures and expressive composition reflect both her Egyptian heritage and her engagement with Christian themes, creating a deeply spiritual and culturally rooted depiction of the Last Supper. Today, the painting is housed at the Coptic Museum of Canada.
In Egypt, Easter Sunday is celebrated primarily by the Coptic Orthodox community as a joyful culmination of Holy Week. After a long period of fasting, churches are filled with worshippers attending midnight liturgies, followed by gatherings with family and traditional foods. Easter often coincides with the national spring festival of Sham El-Nessim, when Egyptians—regardless of religion—celebrate outdoors, sharing meals like salted fish, eggs, and fresh greens. Together, these traditions blend religious devotion with cultural celebration, echoing themes of renewal, community, and new life that are central to Easter.
#easter #egghunting #happyeaster
Today marks the 56th anniversary of the Bahr El-Baqar tragedy. On April 8, 1970, Israeli Air Force jets struck a primary school in the village of Bahr El-Baqar in Sharqia, Egypt, killing 46 innocent children and injuring many more. A place meant for learning became a symbol of stolen childhood and lives cut short—one of Egypt’s most painful memories.
The tragedy was later immortalized in the 1971 painting “The Children of Bahr El-Baqar” by Menhat Helmy, honoring the young lives lost and ensuring they are never forgotten.
النهارده بيمر ٥٦ سنة على مأساة بحر البقر. في ٨ أبريل ١٩٧٠، طائرات من سلاح الجو الإسرائيلي ضربت مدرسة ابتدائي في قرية بحر البقر بمحافظة الشرقية في مصر، واستشهد ٤٦ طفل بريء واتصاب كتير غيرهم. مكان كان المفروض يبقى مليان ضحك وأمل، بقى رمز لطفولة اتسرقت وحياة اتقطعت بدري—واحدة من أوجع ذكريات مصر.
وتم تخليد المأساة دي في لوحة “أطفال بحر البقر” سنة ١٩٧١ للفنانة منحة حلمي، تخليدًا لذكرى الأطفال اللي فقدوا حياتهم علشان يفضلوا دايمًا في الذاكرة.
We have a saying in Arabic:
أمي ثم أمي ثم أمي 💕
— your mother, above all.
I owe everything to mine — my guiding star ✨
In Egypt, we celebrate Mother’s Day with the spring equinox 🌸🇪🇬 March 21 — the first day of spring, chosen for renewal, for life itself… because mothers are the source of it all.
The idea began in the 1950s with Mostafa Amin, but it reaches further back — to ancient Egypt, to Isis, to a time when motherhood was sacred.
It became a language —and voices like Father Ibrahim Saad, who described mothers as “the statue of vivid love,” captured something timeless: devotion, sacrifice, and quiet strength.
To all the mothers — thank you 🧿🤍🧿
You are the reason we are.
#MothersDay #Egypt #mama #Spring #motherslove❤️
