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Humble Museum Aims for Rebirth | The New York Times →

Added on February 1, 2012 by Alana Chloe Esposito.

CAIRO - A diamond in the rough, the Egyptian Museum of Modern Art houses works by more than 1,500 Egyptian artists, mostly from the middle and late 20th century, includingthe internationally renowned painters Mahmoud Said and Abdel Hadi Al-Gazzar and the sculptorMahmoud Moukhtar.

Refashioning Egypt's Iconic Visual Symbols | The International New York Times →

Added on December 7, 2011 by Alana Chloe Esposito.

CAIRO — Mud-brick houses are hardly the first image that comes to mind when one thinks of luxury jewelry, but they are precisely what Azza Fahmy reinterpreted as silver and gold brooches for her debut jewelry collection, “Houses of the Nile,” in the early 1980s. Refashioning the iconic visual symbols of her native Egypt into contemporary jewelry designs has become Ms. Fahmy’s trademark.

Cairo's Two Nights on the Town | The International New York Times →

Added on November 2, 2011 by Alana Chloe Esposito.

CAIRO — While thousands of Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square last month to demand that the government release the blogger and activist Alaa Abdel Fattah from prison, Cairo’s fashion-forward crowd ventured onto the streets for a different reason: to shop.