North african art

Egyptian Nubian women

Moroccan berber woman

Raoul Salvador Palumbo - Torbet el Bey

Bedouin Dancers - East Africa

By combining signs with magical numbers or stylizing traditional symbols, contemporary artists tap the unconscious to create abstract work that references the past and present.

The Nubian archer of the Codex Casanatense, close up, c. 1540.

Marrakech,Morocco

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North African Henna Patterns

Beauty with a Tambourine, Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner

Baya is cited in Breton's Dictionary of Surrealists, a book which contains very few female artists. She produced art throughout her life, but always insisted on the rejection of any label; cubist, surrealist, or other. Her work was a response to her life in Algeria and the things she saw there. Unlike more popular modernists, Baya was not attempting to return to a "simpler" or "primitive" state but instead wanted to capture the life and feeling in the portraits and landscapes of her…

Djamila Bouhired, leading Algerian heroine and revolutionary. She fought in the war of national liberation (1954–1962) and has worked as a vocal activist in the movement for women’s rights in independent Algeria.