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Lia Life House House for rent on Red Sea, El Quseir. Alouche Red Sea

17/04/2022

Perdues dans le désert, isolées en pleine mer ou nichées dans de petits villages, certaines destinations artistiques s’abordent et se méritent comme de vrais lieux de pèlerinage. L’occasion ...

09/03/2022



"Dust
Egypt's Forgotten Architecture" (Revised And Expanded Edition)
Xenia Nikolskaya

A stunning photographic compilation of Egypt’s abandoned palaces and grand buildings

Between 1860 and 1940, Cairo and other large cities in Egypt witnessed a major construction boom that gave birth to extraordinary palaces and lavish buildings. These incorporated a mix of architectural styles, such as Beaux-Arts and Art Deco, with local design influences and materials. Today, many lie empty and neglected, rapidly succumbing to time, a real-estate frenzy, and an ongoing population crisis.

In 2006 Russian-born photographer Xenia Nikolskaya began the process of documenting these structures. She gained exceptional access to them, taking photographs at some thirty locations, including Cairo, Alexandria, Luxor, Minya, Esna, and Port Said. These photographs were documented in the first edition of Dust: Egypt’s Forgotten Architecture, which soon after its release in 2012 became a rare collector’s item.

This revised and expanded edition includes photographs from the first edition together with extra unseen images and new photographs taken by Nikolskaya between 2013 and 2021. It also includes previously unpublished essays by Heba Farid, co-owner of the Cairo-based photo gallery Tintera, and architect and urban planner Omar Nagati, co-founder of CLUSTER, an urban design and research platform also in Cairo.

Dust: Egypt’s Forgotten Architecture leads us seductively into some of the most breathtaking architectural spaces of Egypt’s recent past, filled with a sense of both the immense weight and impermanence of history.
AUC Press, 2022
160 pp.
82 color

09/03/2022



"Nubian Memoirs", by Harry Smith

In this short memoir, archaeologist and Egyptologist Prof Harry Smith recalls the time he spent working for the Egypt Exploration Society in Nubia from 1959 to 1965. It was during this exciting time that the UNESCO campaign to save the monuments of Nubia stimulated excavation and recording along the Nile between the First and Second Cataracts. Harry worked, under the direction of Prof W Bryan Emery, at the massive ancient Egyptian fortress of Buhen before leading the third archaeological survey of Nubia in advance of the rising waters of Lake Nubia behind the new Aswan High Dam.

Complemented by archival images from the Egypt Exploration Society and objects from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology, these memoirs offer a rare glimpse into the reality of working under pressure at this time, as well as fond recollections of people and places from Harry's past.

The book is dedicated to the late George Hart (1945-2121) and was lovingly compiled by Sue Davies. Proceeds from the sale of this volume directly support the work of the Egypt Exploration Society. The book is also available from the Friends of the Petrie Museum where funds raised will support their work.

Sites mentioned in the text: Buhen, Nimrud, Beycesultan, Abu Simbel, Ballana, Korosko (rock shelters), Shutturma, Maharraqa, Kalabsha, Qasr Ibrim, Dabod, Tunqala West, Derr, Qustul, Wadi Halfa, Khartoum, el-Diwan, Kor, Gebel Turob.
Publisher: Paolo Scremin, 2022, 80 p

19/05/2021

Marooned in the desert, the designer and illustrator collaborated on two new artisan-led lines

24/05/2020

Panorama du vieux Caire, par Zangaki

16/04/2020

Deux femmes égyptiennes
1885

12/04/2020

La photo du jour (par marie grillot)

31/01/2020

Portrait taken at the Burqash Camel Market (photo by Rania Shereen) Rania Shereen is an Egyptian photographer who enjoys capturing beautifully constructed photos through her unique perspective, from the rawness of simple Egyptian rural life to the joyous - and oftentimes extravagant - festivities of...

13/01/2020

Racontée à partir de vastes chantiers de fouilles en cours, au Soudan, l'histoire fabuleuse du royaume de Koush, qui a régné sur l'Égypte pendant près d'un siècle.

11/01/2020

Perhaps you've started the year wanting to further explore the cultured side in you, or maybe you've just always wanted to wander through an art gallery trying to make sense of paintings that sometimes seem incomprehensibly abstract; in any case, this is the list for you. Cairo is abundant in contem...

04/01/2020

11 octobre 2019 au 16 février 2020

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