Nazli Madkour

Nazli Madkour or Nāzlī Madkūr (; born 1949) is an Egyptian visual artist.

Early life and education Madkour was born on 25 February 1949 in Cairo, Egypt. She has a BA in economy and political science from the University of Cairo (1971), and a diploma in business administration management (1977) and a master's degree (1980) from The American University in Cairo.

She worked for the United Nations as a researcher on family planning from 1972 to 1978, and as an economic expert at the Industrial Development Centre for Arab States before becoming a full time artist in 1981.

In 1989 she wrote a book in Arabic whose title translates as Egyptian Women and Artistic Creativity, which was published by Association of Arab Women Solidarity; it was republished in English in 1993 by the State Information Department as Women and Art in Egypt.