This is a list of women artists who were born in

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or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.

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* Inji Aflatoun (1924–1989), painter, activist *

Mariam A. Aleem Mariam A. Aleem (28 December 1930 – 26 April 2010) was an Egyptian artist and art professor specializing in printed design. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts Cairo in 1954 and her Master of Fine Arts in graphic pr ...

(1930–2010), printed design artist * Doa Aly (born 1976), contemporary artist *

Ghada Amer Ghada Amer ( ar, غادة عامر, May 22 1963 in Cairo, Egypt) is a contemporary artist, much of her work deals with issues of gender and sexuality. Her most notable body of work involves highly layered embroidered paintings of women's bodies r ...

(born 1963), contemporary artist, based in New York * Sawsan Amer (active since 1970s), artist, educator *

Heba Amin Heba Y. Amin (born 1980) is a visual artist, researcher and educator. Early life and education Amin was born and raised in Cairo. She was educated at Cairo American College in Maadi. Amin moved to the United States in 1998 and studied Mathematics ...

(born 1980), artist, educator *

Evelyn Ashamallah Evelyn Ashamallah ( ar, إيفيلين عشم الله) is a female Coptic painter, born in Desouk, Kafr el-Sheikh, Egypt in 1948 to Ashamallah Eskandar Hanna and Elaine Mikhail Hanna. She graduated from the faculty of fine arts at Alexandria ...

(born 1948), Coptic painter

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* Clea Badaro (1913–1968), painter * Lara Baladi (born 1969), Egyptian-Lebanese photographer, multimedia artist

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* Dina Danish (born 1981), French-born Egyptian multimedia artist

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Sherin Guirguis Sherin Guirguis (born 1974 in Luxor, Egypt) is a visual artist based in Los Angeles, California. Guirguis has had solo exhibitions of her work at 18th Street Art Center (Santa Monica, California), The Third Line Gallery (Dubai), Shulamit Nazarian ...

(born 1974), contemporary artist

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Tahia Halim Tahia Mohammed Halim ( ar, تحية محمد حليم; September 9, 1919 – May 24, 2003) was an Egyptian painter. Tahia Halim was one of the pioneers of the Modern Expressive Movement in Egyptian Art in the 1960s, where she excelled in expre ...

(1919–2003), painter *

Nermine Hammam Nermine Hammam (born 1967) is an Egyptian artist who lives and works in Cairo and London. She was born in Cairo and later moved to England and then the United States in 1985. She received a BFA in film-making from the Tisch School of the Arts in ...

(born 1967), filmmaker, graphic designer, painter, photographer * Amira Hanafi (born 1979), American/Egyptian poet and artist active in electronic literature * Susan Hefuna (born 1962), German-Egyptian visual artist * Helena of Egypt (4th century BC), painter

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* Iman Issa (born 1979), multi-disciplinary artist

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* Amal Kenawy (1974–2012), contemporary artist * Hend Kheera (born 1981), street artist

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* Maha Maamoun (born 1972), American-born Egyptian video artist and photographer, curator

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* Effat Nagy (1905–1994), painter * Sabah Naim (born 1967),

multimedia artist Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, or video into a single interactive presentation, in contrast to traditio ...

* Margaret Nakhla (1908–1977), painter

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* Khadiga Riad (1914–1981), painter, surrealist

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* Gazbia Sirry (1925–2021), painter * Nadia Sirry (born 1958), painter

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Aya Tarek Aya Tarek ( ar, آية طارق) is an Egyptian artist from the city of Alexandria. Tarek's mediums are primarily street art or graffiti and paint. Although street art in Egypt gained much international attention after the 2011 revolution, Tare ...

(active since 2008), street artist {{Lists of women artists by nationality - Egyptian women artists, List of

Artists An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the ...