October 10th, 2012 
Rowan El Shimi Artist’s family finds home after 40-year absence ransacked and occupied by thugs who have dug up foundations looking for artefacts, ignoring value of paintings belonging to Egypt’s father of impressionism. Original article published in Ahram Online. Piles of rubble with priceless works of art scattered around, a two-storey house empty of its antique furniture and [...]
Posted in Ahram Online, Published Articles 
Tags: Art Heritage, Egypt, Heritage, History, Impressionalism, Stolen Art, Youssef Kamel 
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October 19th, 2011 Rowan El Shimi On what would be Mahmoud Mokhtar’s 120th birthday, we can celebrate the Egyptian nationalistic sculptor’s legacy, reviving the art of sculpting after being lost in the midst of centuries of wars and foreign occupation [Published in Ahram Online] ——————————————– Cairenes often pass by the “Egyptian Renaissance” statue in front of the Giza Zoo, or the [...]
Posted in Ahram Online, Cities & Towns, Photography, Published Articles Tags: Art, Cairo, Culture, Egypt, History, Mahmoud Mokhtar, Museum No Comments »
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