Fathi Hassan

Fathi Hassan was born in Cairo in 1957 to Nubian and Egyptian parents. His family were forced to leave their homeland of Nubia when the Aswan High Dam was built in 1952, flooding a vast area now under Lake Nasser.

This publication includes a compilation of essays by academics and curators including Achille Bonito Olvia, renounced critic and curator and Maurita Poole, director of the Tulane Museum of Art, New Orleans.

In Italian and English.