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Inji Aflatoun
1924–1989
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Inji Aflatoun was an Egyptian painter working in oil and watercolor who depicted laborers, women, and scenes of postwar Cairo with formal clarity and social conviction. Her figurative practice merged social realism with direct engagement in communist politics and women's rights activism, commitments that determined both her subjects and her periods of exile. Aflatoun painted the urban working life and domestic sphere of mid-twentieth-century Egypt as inseparable from political struggle.
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Cairo University
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