Bibliography

Monographs and catalogues

Charisma / كاريزما. Riyadh: Errm Gallery, 2024. View catalogue (PDF)
In the Presence of the Animal. Curated by Stefania Angarano; texts by Stefania Angarano, Mohamed Makhzangi and Adel El Siwi. Cairo: Beba Editions, 2017. ISBN 978-977-6532-12-0. View catalogue (PDF)
Adel El Siwi: The Face and Beyond. Dubai: ARTSPACE. View catalogue (PDF)
Siwi: The Fables. Curated by Ehab El-Labban; texts by Alaa Khaled, Mohsen Shaalan, Farouk Hosni and Adel El Siwi. Cairo: Ministry of Culture, Sector of Fine Arts, 2010.
Siwi Faces / وجوه. Texts by Beral Madra (“The Face Enunciates”) and Carmelo Strano (“A Multicultural Face”). Cairo: Centre of Arts Editions, Ministry of Culture, 1999. View catalogue (PDF)

Brahim Alaoui, Perspectives on Modern and Contemporary Arab Artists. Paris: Skira, 2023. ISBN 9782370742117. Buy on Amazon ↗
African Artists: From 1882 to Now. London: Phaidon, 2021. ISBN 9781838662431. Buy from Phaidon ↗

“The Masque as Art: Africa and Beyond” (القناع فنياً: أفريقيا وما بعدها). Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 17, 1997, pp. 124–144.
Ain, visual arts magazine, issue 1. Founded and edited by Adel El Siwi. Cairo, 1996. Includes “The Road to Kom Ghorab”. View issue (PDF, Arabic)
“Madness and the Logic of Imagination in Painting” (الجنون ومنطق الخيال في فن التصوير). Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 14, 1994.

Carlo Rovelli, The Most Beautiful Theory: Seven Brief Lessons on Nature (أجمل نظرية: سبعة دروس موجزة في الطبيعة). Cairo: Beba Editions (Dar Baad El Bahr), 2018.
Giuseppe Ungaretti, Vita d’un uomo (collected poems). Cairo: Dar Merit, 2006. Premio Flaiano per l’italianistica, 2007.
Paul Klee, Theory of Form (نظرية التشكيل), from the Bauhaus lectures. Cairo: Beba Editions (Dar Baad El Bahr), 2001; 2nd edition 2020. ISBN 978-977-6532-19-0. Buy from Neel wa Furat ↗
Leonardo da Vinci, A Treatise on Painting (نظرية التصوير). Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organization, 1995. Buy from Neel wa Furat ↗