#Mashrabia
“Twenty-five years is a long time. So much has happened,” Stefania Angarano sighs. The Italian connoisseur has been running the contemporary art gallery Mashrabia in Downtown Cairo for two and a half decades. In an interview to celebrate the gallery’s birthday, she reminisces open-heartedly about the Middle Eastern art scene, gallery practices, the challenges faced over the years, and the memories made. In 1990, Stefania Angarano embarked on a trip to Cairo as an Arabic student on a grant. Backed…