Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref)
I was in Aswan just one week late for this last year!
See the above page for the full story.
- Restoration Of The Old Cataract Hotel In Aswan
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref) The legendary turn-of-the-last-century Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan is now as glamorous as it ever was following three years of restoration, writes Nevine El-Aref On a hilltop in Aswan, at the spot where the River Nile...
- Akht Back Home
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A GRANITE engraving depicting a cow-shaped ancient Egyptian deity Akht is back in Egypt. Eleven years after having gone missing from its original location in Behbit Al-Hegara temple in the Nile Delta, a granite engraving...
- More Re Nefertiti "makeover"
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) As usual Nevine El-Aref has provided a good summary of a widely reported story: Since it was discovered in 1912 by the German Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt, the painted bust of Nefertiti, excavated from the studio of the...
- Some Drowned, Some Buried
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) On several occasions Zahi Hawass has announced that underwater investigations were planned for the Nile Valley. In this article Nevine El-Aref describes the recovery of artefacts from the riverbed at Aswan. It is surely...
- Culture: Dancing Ancient Egypt
Free Times, Columbia (Ron Aiken) With priceless artifacts from ancient Egypt on display at the Columbia Museum of Art as part of the museum’s 10th anniversary celebration, it only made sense to Columbia City Ballet artistic director William Starrett...
Egypt
Modern Egypt: Visions of the material world
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref)
I was in Aswan just one week late for this last year!
Eleven artists from across the world gathered in Aswan for this year's International Sculpture Symposium, carving their thoughts into blocks of granite, Nevine El-Aref looks on.
"Every block of stone encloses a sculpture, and the task of the sculptor is to reveal it," said the Italian artist and sculptor Michelangelo.
Participants at the 14th Aswan International Sculpture Symposium (AISS), which took place in the southern Egyptian city recently, certainly seem to have been working with Michelangelo's words in mind. Eleven sculptors from six countries including France, Germany, Bulgaria, Korea, Hungary and Egypt, arrived in the city armed with electric saws, drills, files, pins and hammers, in order to contemplate huge granite blocks, as if in search of the statues that according to Michelangelo lie within them. Among their visions for the material were a bedroom, an ancient red fountain, a black solar clock, an image of the sea complete with foam and bubbles, a statue of an ancient Egyptian queen, a huge pile of papers, and a garden of stones.
See the above page for the full story.
- Restoration Of The Old Cataract Hotel In Aswan
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref) The legendary turn-of-the-last-century Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan is now as glamorous as it ever was following three years of restoration, writes Nevine El-Aref On a hilltop in Aswan, at the spot where the River Nile...
- Akht Back Home
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A GRANITE engraving depicting a cow-shaped ancient Egyptian deity Akht is back in Egypt. Eleven years after having gone missing from its original location in Behbit Al-Hegara temple in the Nile Delta, a granite engraving...
- More Re Nefertiti "makeover"
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) As usual Nevine El-Aref has provided a good summary of a widely reported story: Since it was discovered in 1912 by the German Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt, the painted bust of Nefertiti, excavated from the studio of the...
- Some Drowned, Some Buried
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) On several occasions Zahi Hawass has announced that underwater investigations were planned for the Nile Valley. In this article Nevine El-Aref describes the recovery of artefacts from the riverbed at Aswan. It is surely...
- Culture: Dancing Ancient Egypt
Free Times, Columbia (Ron Aiken) With priceless artifacts from ancient Egypt on display at the Columbia Museum of Art as part of the museum’s 10th anniversary celebration, it only made sense to Columbia City Ballet artistic director William Starrett...