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Medina Magazine: Architecture, Interiors, Fine Arts
Medina Magazine is a unique and ambitious project in the Middle East by a group of architects, designers and artists to collaborate to present both architecture conceived and created in Egypt, and examples from other contexts that contain elements relevant to architectural designers, students and educators working in Egypt.

This magazine that has been published in Arabic and English since 1998 is divided into three sections to aid the reader in critiquing their built environment; to see that each component negotiates with the other to form our visual world. Structure, decorative details, and interpretations of spaces and how society reacts to them anchor Medina's founders' conception as apparent in the selection of articles presented on ArchNet.

Medina goes even further than presenting architectural, design and art projects; as part of their design revolution in Egypt, Medina also organizes annual design competitions for students and professionals, as well as supporting symposiums and art projects.

Author Title Year
Abada, Galal "Cairography" A review of books on Cairo 2000
Abada, Galal Al Darb al Asfar: Limited Restoration to Wider Conservation 2000
Abada, Galal Cairo 2020: Journey to the Future of the Historic City 2000
Abada, Galal Expo 2000 1999
Abada, Galal Historic Cairo: 50 Years of Projects, Planning, and Non-Implementation 2000
Abada, Galal Misr University for Science and Technology 2000
Abada, Galal A New Vision for Development and Local Architecture: El Miniawy - Toba Projects 2000
Abada, Galal Port Said History Park 1999
Abada, Galal Results from the Bank Misr Competition 2001
Abada, Galal Science Museum Competition: Architectural reflections on image and imagination 2001
Abada, Galal & Tamer El Khorazaty Toshka: A Disappointing Competition for All 1999
Abdel Kawi, Amr Aga Khan Award: 7 Projects Receive the 1998 Award 1999
Abdel Kawi, Amr An Architect's Dream: Fantasy Beach, the Red Sea 1999
Abdel Kawi, Amr Medina Third Annual Design Competition: Youth ideas competition, Smart Village, Egypt 2001
Abdel Kawi, Amr, Aly Hatem Gabr, Tamer El Khorazaty & Said Sorour, eds Gamal Bakry: Resume 2002
Abdel Kawi, Amr, Aly Hatem Gabr, Tamer El Khorazaty & Said Sorour, eds Medina Issue Twenty-One: Architecture, Interiors & Fine Arts 2002
Abdel Kawi, Amr, Aly Hatem Gabr, Tamer El Khorazaty & Said Sorour, eds Medina Issue Twenty-One: Cover, Table of Contents & Editorial 2002
Abdel Kawi, Amr, Tamer El Khorazaty, Ali Labib Gabr, Hazem El Mestikawy & Said Sorour, eds. Medina Issue Five: Architecture, Interiors & Fine Arts 1999
Abdel Kawi, Amr, Tamer El Khorazaty, Ali Labib Gabr, Hazem El Mestikawy & Said Sorour, eds. Medina Issue Four: Architecture, Interiors & Fine Arts 1998
Abdel Kawi, Amr, Tamer El Khorazaty, Ali Labib Gabr, Hazem El Mestikawy & Said Sorour, eds. Medina Issue Four: Cover, Table of Contents & Editorial 1998
Abdel Kawi, Amr, Tamer El Khorazaty, Ali Labib Gabr, Hazem El Mestikawy & Said Sorour, eds. Medina Issue Six: Architecture, Interiors & Fine Arts 1999
Abdel Kawi, Amr, Tamer El Khorazaty, Ali Labib Gabr, Hazem El Mestikawy & Said Sorour, eds. Medina Issue Six: Cover, Table of Contents & Editorial 1999
Abdel Kawi, Amr, Tamer El Khorazaty, Ali Labib Gabr, Hazem El Mestikawy & Said Sorour, eds. Medina Issue Three: Architecture, Interiors & Fine Arts 1998
Abdel Kawi, Amr, Tamer El Khorazaty, Ali Labib Gabr, Hazem El Mestikawy & Said Sorour, eds. Medina Issue Three: Cover, Table of Contents & Editorial 1998
Abdel Kawi, Amr, Tamer El Khorazaty, Ali Labib Gabr, Hazem El Mestikawy & Said Sorour, eds. Medina Issue Two: Architecture, Interiors & Fine Arts 1998
Abdel Kawi, Amr, Tamer El Khorazaty, Ali Labib Gabr, Hazem El Mestikawy & Said Sorour, eds. Medina Issue Two: Cover, Table of Contents & Editorial 1998
Abdel Kawi, Amr, Tamer El Khorazaty, Ali Labib Gabr, Hazem El Mestikawy & Said Sorour, eds. Medina Premier Issue: Architecture, Interiors & Fine Arts 1998
Abdel Kawi, Amr, Tamer El Khorazaty, Ali Labib Gabr, Hazem El Mestikawy & Said Sorour, eds. Medina Premier Issue: Cover, Table of Contents & Editorial 1998
Abdel Kawi, Amr, Tamer El Khorazaty, Ali Labib Gabr, Hazem El Mestikawy, Said Sorour & Galal Abada, eds. Medina Issue Eight: Architecture, Interiors & Fine Arts 1999
Abdel Kawi, Amr, Tamer El Khorazaty, Ali Labib Gabr, Hazem El Mestikawy, Said Sorour & Galal Abada, eds. Medina Issue Eight: Cover, Table of Contents & Editorial 1999
Abdel Kawi, Amr, Tamer El Khorazaty, Ali Labib Gabr, Hazem El Mestikawy, Said Sorour & Galal Abada, eds. Medina Issue Eleven: Architecture, Interiors & Fine Arts 2000
Abdel Kawi, Amr, Tamer El Khorazaty, Ali Labib Gabr, Hazem El Mestikawy, Said Sorour & Galal Abada, eds. Medina Issue Eleven: Cover, Table of Contents & Editorial 2000
Abdel Kawi, Amr, Tamer El Khorazaty, Ali Labib Gabr, Hazem El Mestikawy, Said Sorour & Galal Abada, eds. Medina Issue Nine: Architecture, Interiors & Fine Arts 1999
Abdel Kawi, Amr, Tamer El Khorazaty, Ali Labib Gabr, Hazem El Mestikawy, Said Sorour & Galal Abada, eds. Medina Issue Nine: Cover, Table of Contents & Editorial 1999
Abdel Kawi, Amr, Tamer El Khorazaty, Ali Labib Gabr, Hazem El Mestikawy, Said Sorour & Galal Abada, eds. Medina Issue Seven: Architecture, Interiors & Fine Arts 1999
Abdel Kawi, Amr, Tamer El Khorazaty, Ali Labib Gabr, Hazem El Mestikawy, Said Sorour & Galal Abada, eds. Medina Issue Ten: Architecture, Interiors & Fine Arts 1999
Abdel Kawi, Amr, Tamer El Khorazaty, Ali Labib Gabr, Hazem El Mestikawy, Said Sorour & Galal Abada, eds. Medina Issue Ten: Cover, Table of Contents & Editorial 1999
Abdel Kawi, Amr. Medina's First Annual Student Competition 1999
Abdou, Ossama Green Architecture: A Holistic Approach 2000
Afifi, A A New Start in the North: Alexandria Lighthouse circa 2000 1999
Afifi, Amr The Grand Dame of the Dome: An Interview with Christel Kessler 2000
Al Ibrashy, May Sabil Al-Nasir Muhammad Ibn Qalawun 1998
Al Nagi, Mustafa. Art Seen in a daily scene 1999
Amr Abdel Kawi, Aly Hatem Gabr, Tamer El Khorazaty, Said Sorour, Hazem El Mestikawy & Galal Abada, eds Medina Issue Twenty: Cover, Table of Contents & Editorial 2001
Amr Abdel Kawi, Aly Hatem Gabr, Tamer El Khorazaty, Said Sorour, Hazem El Mestikawy & Galal Abada, eds. Medina Issue Twenty: Architecture, Interiors & Fine Arts 2001
Asfour, K The New AUC Campus: Medina meets the Master Planners 2000
Asfour, Khaled Egypt's Don Quixote 2002
Asfour, Khaled Is it Green or Bleak? This year's Egyptian Contemporary Architecture Exhibition 2001
Asfour, Khaled Leisure at Shallot Hilton: Cascading, Sliding, Splashing! 1998
Asfour, Khaled Ministry of Education: Green Technology 2000
Asfour, Khaled Rendering Green: An Alternative to the Golf Course Solution 1999
Asfour, Khaled Suzanne Mubarak Village: A Green Community 2000
Ashour, Muhammad Ayman Technological Advances in the Extension of the Prophet's Holy Mosque in Medina 1998
Aswan International Sculpture Symposium. Aswan International Sculpture Symposium 1998
Chibli, Maan The City of Aleppo: Room for Rehabilitation 2000
Cover, Table of Contents & Editorial. Medina Issue Seven: Cover, Table of Contents & Editorial 1999
Cover, Table of Contents, Competition Statement & Editorial. Medina Issue Five: Cover, Table of Contents, Competition Statement & Editorial 1999
El Dabaa, Ahmed & Aly Gabr. Paradise Indoors? 1998
El Khorazaty, Tamer. Pedestrian Streets: Cairo's first serious experiment with pedestrian streets 1998
El Rashidi, Seif Beneath the Golden Crescent of Islam 1999
El Razaz, Mostafa Gamal Bakry: The painter 2002
Elmesseri, Nur & Nigel Ryan Gallery Overview: Too Much Rope to Hang? 1998
Essa, Iman. Contemporary Voices: Cairo's First Arts Festival - Al Nitaq 2000
Gaber, Tammey. Le Corbusier's Rendition of the Tunisian Vernacular: An alaysis of the "machine for living" 2001
Gaber, Tammy Office building design in Cairo: A critical analysis of four prominent office building projects 2002
Gaber, Tammy Saudi Science Museum in Riyadh: Architecture as device 2001
Gabr, Ali Hatem The Immobilia Building: A 1997 Rediscovery 1998
Gabr, Ali Labib Neo Pharaonic Architecture in Cairo: A Western Legacy 1998
Gabr, Aly H L'Union Vie de Paris 1999
Gabr, Aly Hatem Architect & Visionary Charles Jencks 1998
Gabr, Aly Hatem Image or Essence? How to Look at Traditional Art and Architecture 2000
Gabr, Aly Hatem Medina interviews the Architect of Cairo's newest Art Gallery 1998
Gabr, Aly Hatem Rediscovery: Mimar Sinan, Suleyman the Magnificent & the Suleymaniye 2001
Gabr, Aly Hatem Taha Hussein revisits Al Galaa Square: A Sculpture Competition 2001
Gabr, Aly Hatem. Immeubles Gamalian: A Rediscovery 1998
Hamdy, Basma The new Renaissance Cinema in Alexandria 1999
Hammond, Andrew & Mahmoud Kassem Inner City Innovation: Gentrification in Medieval Cairo? 2000
Ibrashy, May The Cemetery of the Living: Cairo's Al-Qarafa 2000
International Competition for the Museum of Islamic Arts Doha, Qatar International Competition for the Museum of Islamic Arts Doha, Qatar 1998
Ismail, Ahmed Local Focus: El Gouna's Golf Resort 1999
Knode, Marilou Emergent forms at the Red Sea: An Interview with architect Tarek Naga 2000
Medina Aga Khan Awards: Nine projects receive the 2001 Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2001
Medina Gamal Bakry's Portfolio: Ahlya 2002
Medina Gamal Bakry's Portfolio: Dahab Touristic Village 2002
Medina Gamal Bakry's Portfolio: Egyptian Ambassador Residence in Berlin 2002
Medina Gamal Bakry's Portfolio: Engineers Syndicate Alexandria 2002
Medina Gamal Bakry's Portfolio: ENPI 2002
Medina Gamal Bakry's Portfolio: Gezira Tower 2002
Medina Gamal Bakry's Portfolio: Haraneya Chalet 2002
Medina Gamal Bakry's Portfolio: King Mariut Hotel 2002
Medina Gamal Bakry's Portfolio: Maspiro Compound 2002
Medina Gamal Bakry's Portfolio: Mummification Museum 2002
Medina Gamal Bakry's Portfolio: Salon Vert 2002
Medina Gamal Bakry's Portfolio: Science Museum 2002
Medina Gamal Bakry's Portfolio: Snaps from 1960 - 2001 2002
Medina Gamal Bakry's Portfolio: The Zaghlul Residence 2002
Medina Gamal Bakry's Portfolio: Villa Badran 2002
Medina Gamal Bakry's Portfolio: Waqf El Basha 2002
Medina In the words of the architect: An interview with Gamal Bakry 2002
Medina Round Table: Historic Cairo's Renaissance Discussed 2000
Medina Smart Village Project 2001
Medina Interviews Architect Refaat Chadirji Medina Interviews Architect Refaat Chadirji 1999
Medina. "Contemporary Egyptian Art" from the 11th Salon for Youth tot he Solo Exhibitons Cairo 99 2000
Medina. Chiselling in Aswan: The 5th International Sculpture Symposium 2000
Medina. Medina's Design Competition 2000 2000
Medina. Medina's Third Annual Design Competition 2001: Jury Profiles 2001
Medina. Remarks on the General Exhibiton of Fine Arts 2000
Medina. Through New Lenses: Re-designing a beach house in Hurghada 2001
Moffat, David An Interview with Nezar Al Sayyad of the Office of Xross-Xultural Architecture 1999
Mustafa, Magda Consumable Culture: Resort development four case studies 2000
Owen, Ed Rediscovery: Revisualizing a downtown Cairo landmark, the Tiring building 2001
Raafat, Samir Island Alcazar: Medina visits Maniyal Palace 2000
Raafat, Samir Rediscovery, Heritage and History: If Lions Could Talk 2000
Rabbat, Nasser Restoration Projects Critiqued 2000
Safey El Din, Heba Om-Kalthoum Museum: The revitalization of a departed epoch 2001
Safey El-Deen, Heba Reflections on the Exhibition of Contemporary Architecture 2001
Salama, Ashraf The Architecture of Gamal Bakry: Thematic Impressions 2002
Salama, Ashraf Back to the Future: The Ecolodge An Alternative Futuristic Eco-Friendly Tourist Facility 2000
Salama, Ashraf Cedare Headquarters: "Glocalism" and the architecture of resistance 2001
Salama, Ashraf Metaphorical Entrances: Between visual pleasure and meaning 2001
Salama, Ashraf Nachar Segeeny Museum: Balancing and harmonizing the receptacle and the spectacle 2001
Salama, Ashraf Rediscovering the Heritage of Quseir: Past Port, Present Challenge and Future Dreams 2000
Salama, Ashraf Running With or Against the Wind? A closer look at Egyptian architecture in the nineties 2001
Salama, Ashraf Towards a New Role for the Architect in Society 1998
Sami, Shahira Resisting the Test of Time: Aziza Fahmy Palace, Alexandria 1999
Serageldin, Ismail Organizing Conservation: A Proposal for Restoring Historic Cairo 2000
Siddiqui, Yasmeen War in the City: Artists interpret the impact of war on Beirut 2001
Siddiqui, Yasmeen M Architectural Assaults: New buildings intermingle with historic assets 2000
Siddiqui, Yasmeen M Book Review: e-topia 2000
Siddiqui, Yasmeen M Context Inflecting Content: London Nomad Show at Zeinab Khatoun 2001
Siddiqui, Yasmeen M Medina Issue Fifteen: Architecture, Interiors & Fine Arts 2000
Siddiqui, Yasmeen M Medina Issue Fifteen: Cover, Table of Contents & Editorial 2000
Siddiqui, Yasmeen M Medina Issue Thirteen: Architecture, Interiors & Fine Arts 2000
Siddiqui, Yasmeen M Medina Issue Thirteen: Cover, Table of Contents & Editorial 2000
Siddiqui, Yasmeen M More Than a Competition: It was a point of departure 2001
Siddiqui, Yasmeen M Through a master's pupils: Four projects by disciples of Hassan Fathy 2000
Siddiqui, Yasmeen M, ed. Medina Issue Nineteen: Architecture, Interiors & Fine Arts 2001
Siddiqui, Yasmeen M, ed. Medina Issue Nineteen: Cover, Table of Contents & Editorial 2001
Siddiqui, Yasmeen M, ed. Medina Issue Seventeen: Architecture, Interiors & Fine Arts 2001
Siddiqui, Yasmeen M, ed. Medina Issue Seventeen: Cover, Table of Contents & Editorial 2001
Siddiqui, Yasmeen M, ed. Medina Issue Sixteen: Architecture, Interiors & Fine Arts 2000
Siddiqui, Yasmeen M, ed. Medina Issue Sixteen: Cover, Table of Contents & Editorial 2000
Siddiqui, Yasmeen M. Art Injections: Lara Baladi's Um El Donia back in the streets of Cairo 2001
Siddiqui, Yasmeen M. Medina Issue Eighteen: Architecture, Interiors & Fine Arts 2001
Siddiqui, Yasmeen M. Medina Issue Eighteen: Cover, Table of Contents, Editorial 2001
Siddiqui, Yasmeen M. Medina Issue Fourteen: Architecture, Interiors & Fine Arts 2000
Siddiqui, Yasmeen M. Medina Issue Fourteen: Cover, Table of Contents & Editorial 2000
Siddiqui, Yasmeen M. Medina Issue Twelve: Architecture, Interiors & Fine Arts 2000
Siddiqui, Yasmeen M. Medina Issue Twelve: Cover, Table of Contents & Editorial 2000
Sidky, Ahmed Mario Rossi's Work in the Awqaf 1998
Sorour, Youmna Beauty's Homeland is Within 1998
The 7th International Biennale of Cairo 15/12/98 - 15/2/99. The 7th International Biennale of Cairo 15/12/98 - 15/2/99 1999
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