2024 Projects @ Cairo Art Book Fair

Project Team:
Creative Direction and Artwork: Alaa Elbannan
Editing and content development: Doaa Shahin & Noha Ewies
Co-ordination and moral support: Ahmed Gharieb.

Participants: Alaa Magdy, Asia Hussein, Noha Ewies, Mohamed Nabil, Islam Abd-elMoneim, Radwa Ahmed, Rehab Soliman, Rola Nedal, Sara Salem, Souad Tareq, Zeinab Farahat.

This art book is the result of an invitation initiated in April 2023 in co-operation with WabiSabi Art-Space. It’s an endeavor to reflect and deconstruct, or simply express about the notion of time, the emotions, the imagination, the ideas that time generates as a concept. It’s a collection of artwork, letters, poetic reflections, quotes, and lyrics, and plenty space for you to get involved in the discussion.

This bed time story for children from 5 to 95 years old, tells a real story with a pinch of magic and fantasy. Written by Alaa Elbannan, and Illustrated by the amazing and talented friend Esraa Kamal. The credit of Saad w Ekraam Bedtime Stories goes to Noha Ewies.

Nana Semsema's Blanket (a bedtime story )

A draft on Waiting (an autoethnographic experiement)

A poetic personal research on the concept of waiting that has been initiated 9 years ago and finally liberated through this simple A5 black and white publication. Research, writing, and illustrations by Alaa Elbannan, and edited by Amr Shehata.

An art book of photography, typography and Arabic prose featuring Mohamed Ragab's Sunset experience within the city of Cairo.

After Sunset

How do you sleep at night?

An A6 publication reflecting on the war in Gaza and how Alaa Elbannan as a mother was trying to cop with the news and the media since October 2023.