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Life and Career
Khaled Hafez (Born August 5th 1963) in Cairo Egypt, Hafez was an Egyptian French artist, Hafez would mainly reclassify everything from their binary role and look at them from a different view, everything is unique or from a different entity, different role, cultures, times, religions, morals and symbols a lot of his work has been an act of protests against these identities, a single course of action an entity, as an Egyptian identity he refused to narrow it down to a singular purpose or view. He often liked to mix symbols and values and break them down to discover their purposes.

Khaled Hafez was a student of  Zakaria el Zeiny for three years and Hamed Nada for another three years. Nada never really taught much in art, but he was someone who worked alongside his students, someone who would lead by example and give his students active feedback on their own ideas. Hafez was inspired by Nada’s layering and colours technique, she would mix all kinds of colours in her practice and would first start off with dark colours and then textures followed by  white colours to top it off. Hafez’s international practice was launched by a video, in 2004, however most of his galleries internationally consisted mainly of paintings and drawings.(Hafez, 2012)

(Hafez, 2009)

Education
,Hafez studied a medical degree, following his parents footsteps,followed by evening classes of art, Khaled Hafeez was just another medical student, who enjoyed the occasional art in his part time. Until one day he had enrolled into an all art competition, his work was spotted by Zakaria el Zeiny one of the best professors in Egyptian history, later on Zakaria el Zeiny Helped khaled enrol to evening classes.(1) He later obtained an MFA in new media and digital arts from Transart Institute (New York, USA) and Danube University Krems (Austria). Hafez practice spans the mediums of painting, film / video, photography, installation and interdisciplinary approaches. Hafez, a Fulbright Fellow, Rockefeller Fellow,  Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), and 2023 IASPIS Grant Holder, Stockholm, Sweden. Hafez occasionally curates visual arts and photography exhibitions for younger peers.

Khalid does all kinds of art, including exploring painting, installation, photography and video art Art is my autobiography,” starts Khaled Hafez, one of his first memories was painting the walls of his house at the age of 5, however for his parents who were both Doctors that was bad news. Kahled was at the studio in Hamed Nada’s Class, Nada wasn't’ really impressed by Fahad work, not until three years at least, Nada was one of the greatest painters in Egyptian history, his work sold all around the world.

Stockholm syndrome
Symbols and the Stockholm Syndrome is one of his old projects it is a quest for truth, He would use political and social symbols, strip them down from their identities and treat it as simulation, draw upon interests and his purpose would be to distinguish between the genuine and the fake despite them being religions or commands what ideologies and social construct in their area and find out which  would be part of a scheme to benefit certain people over others and which ones would be to server and better all human lifes, which ones certain people would use it in the quest for power.His objective was to break the barrier between the world, also to discover what it meant to be an Egyptian, he also said that “, I believe that everything is ‘sellable’ and ‘package-able’ including Faith”.(Khaled Hafez, 2012)

Local Activist
Khaled Hafez was known for being a huge artist, maybe the biggest one during the Arab spring or uprising  who expressed their opinion throughout art and had a huge voice and impact on the outcome of the revolution, it was mainly because his views would be against the idea of social constructs however, his work was being utilized by others to support one political agenda over another