Biography
Born 1939, in Egypt, Makram Henain started his career in fine arts through his academic education in 1957. He worked in Al Ahram for most of his career as an illustrator and art critic. He held numerous exhibitions displaying his oil paintings, watercolor and ink paintings in Egypt as well as international exhibits. He was strongly influenced by the ancient Egyptian arts that left a significant fingerprint in his works.
He wrote several books on art appreciation, critique as well as educational articles for the public on aesthetics and techniques of oil painting and illustration.

Education
Bachelors of fine arts - Oil painting, Cairo, 1962
Postgraduate diploma - Oil painting, Cairo, 1975

Career
Joined Al Ahram as an illustrator and art critic, Cairo, 1963
Established Al Ahram’s Art Department, 1975
Deputy editor in cheif, Al Ahram, Cairo, 1996

Exhibitions
Participated in numerous exhibitions since 1962.
Exhibition at billiard art gallery of Gezira Club - Cairo - 1972.
Exhibition in the German Cultural Center with artist Farouk Bassiouni 1974.
Exhibition with artist Farouk Bassiouni and Mahmoud Abdulaati in the Soviet Cultural Center.
Exhibition on the occasion of Victory of October - one year of the war - on the Deck of the ship Kradinez 1974.
Exhibition at Atelier art gallery - 1994.
Exhibition in the Egyptian Center of International Cultural Cooperation (foreign diplomats) Zamalek - 1997.
Exhibition entitled (Egyptian Features) - Reach Gallery - Cairo - 1997.
Exhibition in Cairo Opera House with Lutfi Saleh - Nagi Kamel and Nagwa Al- Ashry 2000.
Exhibition in the Egyptian Center of International Cultural Cooperation (foreign diplomats) Zamalek - 2001.
The National Art Exhibition - session (28) 2003.
The First Press Illustration Exhibition at the Arts Palace March 2004.
The Premiere Black and White Drawing Salon - at Gezira Arts Center - May 2004.
The 29th National Art Exhibition - 2005.

Publications and Illustrations
Series of expanded studies in Shell magazine for museums and senior artists.
Studies on the artwork analysis of Al-Ahram.
Illustrated many literary, intellectual and poetic works of art by senior Egyptian and foreigner writers, poets and intellectuals since 1964 on the pages of Al-Ahram.
Supervised on the publication of a book containing a collection of Al-Ahram art acquisitions 1992, and the first version of which was donated to President Hosni Mubarak on the occasion of the opening of the new building.
His works of art has been published in a private issue of Shell magazine 200 pages entitled (pioneers of fine art in Egypt), concerning 15 Egyptian fine artists, 1996.
Contributed to the creation Egyptian art on the Internet.
For eight consecutive years he had a weekly fixed fine art page in the Friday Supplementary of Al-Ahram newspaper to analyze the Egyptian and world works of art.
(Five Creative Egyptians), issued by the Cultural Development Fund, concerning sculptors of Aswan International Sculpture Symposium, 2002.

Participation
Commissaire of Egyptian Modern Art Exhibition in Jordan 2002.
Local and international Who's Who
Recorded in the national encyclopedia of Egyptian Dignitaries (the Informative Authority). Recorded in the Encyclopedia (2000), Thousand Egyptian Characters in the twentieth century (1900 to 2000) issuance of (Middle East News Agency).- Recorded in the Encyclopaedia of the Fame Egyptian and Foreign Artists (Fahima Amin).- Recorded in the Encyclopedia of the Prominent Coptic Characters in Egypt, Visota University.

Local recognition
Top prize for log and stamp design of “the Return”.

International recognition
Top prize for logo design of the African Union Organization.

State collection 
Museum of Egyptian Modern Art .
International Conference Hall - Nasr City.
Chase National Bank. - Al-Ahram newspaper.
The Egyptian Embassy in Washington.
Cultural Development Fund.
Safeer Hotel in Hurghada.
Arab Bank.

Private collections
New York, Washington, England, Denmark, France, Jordan, Italy, Spain, West Germany, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Kuwait.

Membership
Member of the Press Syndicate.
Member of the Association of Fine Artists.
Member of the Egyptian Critics Association.
Member of the Union of Writers.
Member of the Supreme Committee of the Bank of Information.
Member of the Supreme Council of Culture.
Board member of the Society of Salah Taher Art Lovers.

1939 - 2022