Maher Ali
Egypt
Tel. 010-738-0599
Biography
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Maher Ali is a 45-year-old Egyptian
artist. He was born in Alexandria but his family
left there for Cairo when he was young and
settled in Tura where he currently lives with my
wife, Eman, and two children, Amr and Nour.
His father was a source of support and
encouragement by taking Maher with him to look
at the surrounding villages and downtown Cairo
and Alexandria. It was at this time that he felt
the beginnings of a desire to be an artist.
After leaving High School he studied
privately. Firstly, with Mohammad Abbaza who
showed me the techniques of pyrography (wood
burn) painting, and then in Zamalek with
artists, Fragali, Mustafa al Razzaz and Mohamad
Allam where he learned about various styles of
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Between 1991-93 he studied silk screen printing
techniques in Syria. When he returned to Egypt he worked
and studied in the studio of Kwame Brian in Maadi.
Since then he has worked as an independent artist and
held a number of exhibitions in both Maadi and downtown
Cairo. He have been commissioned to design book covers
for a number of prominent Egyptian writers published by
the American University in Cairo Press.
His works are in private collections in Egypt,
England, France, Germany, China, Australia, USA, Italy,
Chile, Venezuela, and the Netherlands.
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