PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Seif El Rashidi is an art historian who graduated from the American University in Cairo’s Islamic art program. He specializes in the management of heritage projects involving community engagement, and has worked for ten years in cultural preservation in Cairo’s al-Darb al-Ahmar, the tentmakers’ neighborhood. Sam Bowker is a lecturer in art history and visual culture at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga, Australia. He has published on aspects of khayamiya since 2012, and curated Khayamiya: Khedival to Contemporary for the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia in 2015–16.
This book is an homage to this craft and details all its aspects. . . .The authors have done a great service by telling this story which is an intricate part of the history of Cairo. They tell it well and tell it in detail.--Bob Brier, Ancient Egypt Magazine Written in an easy, colloquial, entertaining and discursive style which, while providing a wide range of information, should appeal not only to academic readers, but to the lively interest in the craft that has recently been fostered in the West.--Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society An expansive and captivating history of an often overlooked traditional art--Egyptian Streets [A] model of how to make the fruit of specialized academic research interesting to a wider public. . . . a fascinating read.--Aramco World
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