et met en lumière une production jusqüici peu étudiée. Tandis que l¿on aborde aujourd¿hui l¿histoire de l¿art dans une perspective globale à la lumière de circulations, d¿échanges et de réseaux, elle offre un point d¿ancrage permettant de mieux appréhender les dynamiques et les enjeux actuels de l¿art contemporain au Moyen-Orient. In this book, Nadia Radwan explores a key moment of the development of modern Egyptian art, when the foundations of a new artistic practice are defined in the early 20th century. Based on field work and unexplored archival material, this work focuses on a generation of painters and sculptors commonly referred to as the pioneers (al- ruwwad). Trained in institutions, such as the School of Fine Arts in Cairo, their production is inscribed in a project of artistic renaissance and reflects multiple transcultural interactions between Egypt and Europe. This publication thus re-evaluates these artists that opened the path to Egyptian modernism and sheds light their yet understudied production. While art history is now approached in the perspective of circulations, exchange and networks, this book offers a background to a better comprehend the dynamics and stakes of contemporary art in the Middle East and intends to contribute to the cartographic constellation of a world art history.