Yasser Mongy
Dr. Yasser Mongy, an art critic & expert of Arab art history, was born in Egypt 1972 and received a BFA in printmaking from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo in 1996. He received an MA degree in 2003 for a thesis entitled, "The Artistic Treatment of the Idea of Death in Printmaking," and a PhD in 2006 for a thesis entitled "The Graphical Treatment of the Idea of Satan and Occult Symbols." He is an assistant professor in the Graphic Art Department at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo. He is also an expert in the Academy of Arabic Language for the "Glossary of Civilization Terms" 2008-2014. He has won several awards in art and research, including the First Prize of Arab art critics (Sharjah Prize for critical research in fine arts) 2009. He has published a large number of books, articles and studies in Arabic newspapers, magazines, and periodicals, as well as numerous critical studies in catalogs of contemporary Egyptian and Arab artists. He is currently a consultant researcher for the Arab Museum of Modern Art (Mathaf), Doha.
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