Farida Youssef is a critic and curator based in Cairo. She received an MA in European Philosophy from University College London. She is interested in the value of spatial theory for artistic inquiries. In 2018, she was a Merut Fellow at the British Museum researching the Egyptian collection through the lens of contemporary philosophy. In 2021-2022 she was a residential fellow at CILAS where she developed a project on stupidity as a tool to observe critical and creative thinking. Last year, she curated the “Being Borrowed” exhibition with Anthropology bel Arabi, hosted by the CIC. Recently, she received the 2023 apexart’s International Open Call for the proposal “The Valley of Walls” to be exhibited this fall. As a writer, she has published academic chapters, articles and exhibition catalogues on twentieth and contemporary visual culture.