The Shafik Gabr collection of Orientalist traveler paintings is featured in the September/October edition of the Fine Art Connoisseur magazine.
Under the heading 'An Egyptian Collector Publishes his Orientalist Paintings', the article explains how Shafik Gabr first started collecting Orientalist painters, and how his collection now encompasses over 130 works.
The article describes how the new book 'Masterpeices of Orientalist Art: The Shafik Gabr Collection' is "invaluable not only as an armchair tour of the field for general readers, but also as a research tool for musem curators".