Mona Zaalouk

Mona Zaalouk (1947 – 1995) was an Egyptian abstract painter and tapestry designer. She lived in Paris for some ten years at the end of her life.

Biography Mona Zaalouk was born in 1947, in Egypt. Zaalouk graduated from the American University in Cairo in English literature (1967), and she did additional studies at the same university in theatre directing. She had been a student of Fouad Kamel (1919–1973), the noted Egyptian surrealist painter.

In her early artwork she made tapestries from the thick woolen thread.