Huda Lutfi

Born in Cairo, Lutfi has worked both as a visual artist and cultural historian since the early nineties. Lutfi emerged as one of Egypt’s most notable contemporary image-makers. She received her doctorate in Islamic culture and history from McGill University, Montreal, in 1983, and has been teaching since then at the American University in Cairo. She began exhibiting her artwork in the mid-1990s. She has exhibited extensively and internationally, with acquisitions in Paris, London, The Hague, Virginia, Minnesota, Amman, Bahrain, Dubai and Cairo.