Youssef Nabil is enamored of the cinema. Growing up in Egypt, he longed for the time before the revolution, an era of elegance and decadence that he had absorbed from Arab movies of the forties and ...

The fair’s 17th edition—its final chapter before Frieze—balances its regionally anchored identity with growing global ambitions that could get amplified when the megafair takes the reins. The first ...

What do you get when you mix a belly-dancing Salma Hayek with 1950s Egyptian screen sirens and a flannel-clad cowboy on a white horse? The answer is Youssef Nabil’s newest work, “I Saved My Belly ...

Egyptian artist Youssef Nabil’s 'I Saved my Belly Dancer', featuring Salma Hayek, to be displayed in February at Dubai's The Third Line gallery I Saved my Belly Dancer, Youssef Nabil’s latest video ...

GALERIE VOLKER DIEHL is proud to announce the first solo show by Youssef Nabil to be hosted in its rooms. The hand-coloured photographs of Youssef Nabil are a personal aesthetic form of life in death ...

Rania, Cairo (2002) is one of artist Youssef Nabil's most striking and celebrated images. The glamorous image depicts a woman lying on the floor wearing a tiger print dress. The woman, with her eyes ...

Youssef Nabil's hand-colored gelatin silver prints are carefully crafted portraits that pay homage to the glamour of Egyptian films of the 1940s and 50s. From formal studio portraits, to intimate ...