Sama Waly

Born in Bahrain in 1990, a writer and film director based in Cairo. A graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago, she also conducts research on art making.

Portrait Egyptian Duo Nasa4nasa Summons the Internet on Stage Sama Waly · March 2023 Cairo-based dance duo Nasa4nasa (Noura Seif and Salma Abdelsalam) premiered their latest performance, No Mercy in August 2022, at Rawabet theatre in downtown Cairo, leaving a packed audience mesmerised before launching their European tour this winter with a performance at HAU Berlin, Germany. (…)
Egyptian Photographer Ibrahim Ahmed Questions Masculinity Sama Waly · July 2022 Ibrahim Ahmed retraces the history of his family and that of the country from photographic archives. He creates original works that allow him to question and go beyond the concept of masculinity transmitted by a patriarchal society whose relationship to gender has not always been so strictly (…)