The Arab Image Foundation (AIF)—a private archiving initiative founded by a group of artists and collectors in 1997, and run through foreign and local grants—appears on the surface like the very antithesis of the Library of Alexandria in Egypt (discussed in <..
Lucie Ryzova
Lucie Ryzova is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of Modern History, University of Oxford and a co-editor of Jadaliyya`s Photography Page. She is a cultural historian working on modern Egypt.