ADEL EL SIWI

Adel El Siwi – born in 1952 in Beheira, Egypt, is a doctor, an influential contemporary artist, and translator. Abiding by his family’s will, he enrolled in 1970 at the Faculty of Medicine at Cairo University and graduated in 1976. However, simultaneously during the years 1974 till 1975, he attended art courses at the Faculty of Arts of the same university. In 1980 he moved to Milan, Italy, where he lived and worked for a decade before moving back to Cairo.