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Maged Zaky

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Biography

Born in 1983, the Egyptian ceramic artist, designer, and academic Maged Zaky (Maged Mohamed Zaky Hassan) graduated from the ceramics department of the Faculty of Applied Arts at Helwan University in Cairo in 2005, completed a master's degree at the same faculty in 2011, and worked there as an assistant from 2006 to 2013. In Türkiye, Zaky completed a master's degree in ceramic and glass design at Dokuz Eylül University and a doctorate in ceramic art at Hacettepe University. Since 2015 Zaky has taught industrial ceramic design at Erciyes University. Zaky's latest series, produced during an artist residency in Jingdezhen, China, takes as its subject the labor that the human hand puts into objects. In 2011 Zaky received Uşak University's Kar Seramik Award.

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