Mawadah Nofal
Cape Town
Mawadah Nofal is an Egyptian curator, writer, and multi-disciplinary artist working on contemporary art from Africa and the Arab world, cultural practice, and institutional critique.
Currently a Fellow at Zeitz MOCAA and the University of the Western Cape, working between the museum's Centre for Arts Education and the curatorial department. Her practice moves across regions; recent work spans Public Programme Lead for the Cairo Art Book Fair, the Mosaic Rooms (London), research with the Essex Collection of Latin American Art, the Horniman Museum, and a residency with the Red Clay in Tamale, Ghana. Her writing has appeared in Dazed MENA, Kohllective, Rusted Radishes, and ICON MENA, among others. Beyond curating and writing, Mawadah works across photography, film, and arts facilitation as multidisciplinary approaches to critical inquiry.
Mawadah holds a Masters of Science in Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology from the University of Oxford, where she was a 2024-2025 Mastercard Foundation AfOx Scholar at Reuben College, as well as a Bachelor's degree in Art History and Media Studies from the University of Essex.
Currently a Fellow at Zeitz MOCAA and the University of the Western Cape, working between the museum's Centre for Arts Education and the curatorial department. Her practice moves across regions; recent work spans Public Programme Lead for the Cairo Art Book Fair, the Mosaic Rooms (London), research with the Essex Collection of Latin American Art, the Horniman Museum, and a residency with the Red Clay in Tamale, Ghana. Her writing has appeared in Dazed MENA, Kohllective, Rusted Radishes, and ICON MENA, among others. Beyond curating and writing, Mawadah works across photography, film, and arts facilitation as multidisciplinary approaches to critical inquiry.
Mawadah holds a Masters of Science in Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology from the University of Oxford, where she was a 2024-2025 Mastercard Foundation AfOx Scholar at Reuben College, as well as a Bachelor's degree in Art History and Media Studies from the University of Essex.
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