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A working library of design, type, and visual culture.
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2023The Naguib Mahfouz Project is reviving the writings of one of Egypt’s most visionary authors
2023
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2021Hana Gamal draws our attention to the significant and overlooked role women play in Egyptian agriculture
2021
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2014Photographs taken inside the Soviet cosmonaut training centre, Star City
2014
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2012What's On: Hajj - Journey to the Heart of Islam
2012
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2018A tribute to the repurposed churches of the Soviet Union
2018
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2022The Egyptian Cassette Archive documents thousands of tape cover artworks from the 1960s – 2000s
2022
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2022Photographer Alex Nazari explores Armenian history through its ubiquitous Soviet-era car, the Lada
2022
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2022Type foundry Boharat Cairo on the vast possibilities of Arabic type design
2022
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2016Julia Autz documents Transnistria, a country steeped in Soviet nostalgia
2016
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2017Russian photographer Turkina Faso on the “post-Soviet aesthetic”
2017
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2012Soviet bus stops captured by worldly photographer Christopher Herwig
2012
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2021Ceramic artist Nehal Aamir decorates her work with the visuals of Pakistani trucks and Islamic art
2021
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2024The View From Cairo: probing the rise of the “Made in Egypt” aesthetic movement
2024
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2013Lionel Bawden's sculptures are inspired by Islamic art, Brancusi and...sea sponges?
2013
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2018The history of the hotel Venets: a 22-storey metaphor for Soviet utopia
2018
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2018Photographer Denis Dailleux tenderly captures Egyptian bodybuilders with their mums
2018
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2013Lee Mawdsley shoots Qatar for CBQ and make us want to emigrate, fast.
2013
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2018“A desire for the forbidden would be equal to treason”: Photographer Nikolay Bakharev on life in the USSR (NSFW)
2018
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2014Photography: Andrew Miksys' photographs of the discos in Soviet era buildings
2014
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2017A Soviet vision of the future: the legacy and influence of Tekhikia – Molodezhi magazine
2017
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2021What’s in store for the future of Arabic visual culture? Archief Cairo on communicating across borders
2021
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2017A glimpse into the fascinating and incredibly odd world of Soviet-era sanatoriums
2017
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2020Concrete Citizens documents the residents of Soviet brutalist buildings in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova
2020
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2021Archief Cairo on reviving the world’s only letterpress with hieroglyphics
2021
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2013Graphic Design: Elana Schlenker ties together two creatives' takes on Egypt's uprising
2013
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2023Slick, playful and graphically precise: Cairo-based studio Ntsal puts quality and communication first
2023
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2012The Soviet Union goes neon in these mid-century illustrations of the future
2012
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2025Why, in Egypt, creatives are returning to calligraphy in their droves
2025