Ismail Fayed

Ismail Fayed is an independent writer and researcher, based in Cairo. He has been writing on contemporary artistic practices since 2007.

Opinion

Ismail Fayed

On failure and despair: What I did for love

Challenging capitalist notions of success and failure, Ismail Fayed explores love as resistance.

5 February 2024

Ismail Fayed

Mada’s feminist roundtables 01 | Justice now: A feminist moment of reckoning

Each roundtable brings together feminist activists, intellectuals, academics, lawyers and more.

20 January 2021

Ismail Fayed

On queerness and the jargon of authenticity

a utopia free of any Western influence only exists in the delusions of some postcolonial academics

22 July 2020

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features

Roznama 8: Art at the end of the world

Ismail Fayed | What would art right at the moment when our very survival is suspect, look like?

6 April 2021

The thin thread between misogyny and emancipation

Ismail Fayed | Faten Hamama gives a rare, realistic portrayal of the frustration experienced by women in Egypt

22 September 2020

The Open Secret

Ismail Fayed | Ismail Fayed offers notes on this year’s Joburg Art Fair

22 December 2018

Poison into medicine: On watching Poisonous Roses

Ismail Fayed | Ismail Fayed reviews Ahmed Fawzi Saleh’s debut feature film, Poisonous Roses

10 December 2018

Hijacking the contemporary

Ismail Fayed | Ismail Fayed reflects on Egyptian artist Imane Ibrahim’s first solo show at Townhouse

7 December 2018

A future possible?

Ismail Fayed | The Berlin Biennale tries to evade an established historical narrative without looking elsewhere

27 September 2018

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