As an artist focused on creating work for the public arena, eL Seed relinquished a conventional career in commercial art and instead focuses on the utopian vision of spreading peace and tolerance through art. With such bold ideas, he has taken his work all over the world.

Ahmed Morsi is one of Egypt's great modernists but is also a contemporary artist still practicing today. His work has recently gained traction in the region and is also being recognised internationally.

During a one-night only exhibition at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, audiences were asked to reconsider the relationship between ancient Pharaonic artifacts and contemporary Egyptian art

Rev Paul-Gordon Chandler founded Caravan in 2009 as a peace-building arts initiative. Now hosting annual internationally touring exhibitions, its success is all about the content.

Gypsum Gallery is arguably Cairo's strongest contemporary art gallery. I visited the space and saw the current exhibition, dedicated to works on paper.

FIAC, France's leading art fair will feature two Middle Eastern galleries for the first time this year. Green Art Gallery from Dubai and Cairo's Gypsum Gallery will be participating in the prestigious fair