Rachel Cobb Photography: The Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Center
This is the first vlog in my series on Egypt, the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Center in Giza. I was aware of this wonderful creative place, they have had two exhibits at the San Diego Botanic Garden, in San Diego, CA. SDBG is a client of mine and I worked on helping promote the tapestry show, both times. I fell in love with the tapestries and was in awl of the talent. When I knew I was going to go to Egypt, I emailed the director, Mr. Ikram Nosshi and arranged the best time to come by. I went twice, my second day in Egypt and my next to last day. The compound is stunningly beautiful. They grow the plants to dye the wool and cotton. That in it’s self is an art. Then the weavers get their inspiration from walking through the gardens and they just sit at the looms and create. Also they use local life, the markets and farms etc... They use zero images or drawings, it is all their head. AND they work sideways and upside down at times, depending on how large the piece is. It takes months and year’s in some cases to create a large tapestry. Amazing is the only word for it. You must look at their website to read the full story. This is just a little snippet of their world. I am so grateful I was able to visit. Thank you to the Nosshi family, for their hospitality and to the artist for giving permission for me to record. Enjoy.
From the website:
The Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Center is the home of a unique experiment in tapestry weaving that has produced extraordinary works admired and collected by museums and galleries around the world. The life work of its founder Ramses Wissa Wassef (1911-1974) was dedicated to releasing the innate creativity of young Egyptian villagers freed from the constraints of a formal education.
“Human freedom never has as much meaning and value as when it allows the creative power of the child to come into action. All children are endowed with a creative power which includes an astonishing variety of potentialities. This power is necessary for the child to build up his own existence.”
— Ramses Wissa Wassef
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Art centre produces some of Egypt's finest carpets
(25 Dec 2018) LEAD IN:
An art centre near the ancient pyramids of Giza produces some of Egypt's finest carpets and rugs.
The Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre was founded by a man who believed creativity was innate in everyone.
STORY-LINE:
These women are keeping one of Egypt's oldest craft traditions alive - carpet weaving.
Near the ancient pyramids of Giza, the village of Harraniya is a carpet-producing hive where some of the world's finest tapestries and rugs are hand made.
The Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre is one of the most prominent weaving schools in Egypt.
Basima Mohamed has been working here since she was a child.
I started working at the age of 12. Now I am 49 years old. The main thing which attracted me to work here is this centre's great reputation since it was established, Mohamed says.
The art centre started out as a unique experiment in 1951.
Its founder, architect Ramses Wissa Wassef, established it to encourage creativity amongst young Egyptian villagers.
He believed that creativity is innate in everyone, given the right support and opportunity.
Ramses was interested in finding an Egyptian village and transforming its people from simple farmers to a different type of villagers, that can extract talent, and by working in carpet weaving can show their talent, says the centre's director, Ikram Mounir Nosshi.
Wissa Wassef's vision turned the sleepy farming village into a hotspot of weaving excellence.
Some of Egypt's most successful artists came from the centre, with their work being displayed in galleries around the world, including Britain's Victoria and Albert museum.
Recently crafts from the centre were exhibited in San Diego, US.
Most of our work, nearly 70 percent was sold, says Mounir Nosshi.
And this what make the centre alive with funds, and income goes to the centre as well as the workers, he says.
The Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture from the Aga Khan Development Network in 1983.
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Art centre produces world-renowned carpets
(28 Jun 2019) LEAD IN:
An art centre near the ancient pyramids of Giza produces some of Egypt's finest carpets and rugs.
The Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre is one of the most prominent weaving schools in Egypt.
STORY-LINE:
These women are keeping one of Egypt's oldest craft traditions alive - carpet weaving.
First, a blue thread is woven through, before being brushed down.
This carpet begins to paint a leafy picture.
Near the ancient pyramids of Giza, the village of Harraniya is a carpet-producing hive where some of the world's finest tapestries and rugs are handmade.
Soraya Hassan has been working here since she was a child.
My mother brought me here at that time I was 10 years old, she says.
They gave us looms and some wool. Between four or five children would share a loom and practise and we kept trying until we got our first salary and it was a great moment of happiness.
Working elsewhere is out of the question for Hassan.
Why would I do farming? I am an artist and an international one.
The art centre started out as an experiment in 1951.
Its founder, architect Ramses Wissa Wassef, established it to encourage creativity amongst young Egyptian villagers.
He believed that creativity is innate in everyone, given the right support and opportunity.
And Ikram Mounir Nosshi, director of Ramses Wissa Wassef art centre, says it has grown into a world-renowned creative hub.
People have come from England, France, the United States and Germany. And when there is such a gallery, the opening is usually attended by a prominent public figure like the Egyptian ambassador or the Minister of Culture of the hosting country or a king or a queen, he says.
So those simple Harraniya local villagers became artists and they meet with all these people and their community here looks up to them and feels proud.
Some of Egypt's most successful artists came from the centre, with their work being displayed in galleries around the world, including Britain's Victoria and Albert museum.
American tourist Abeel Rothenberg says the centre's own gallery has some of the most best art we've seen seen in long time.
The Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture from the Aga Khan Development Network in 1983.
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The centre of contemporary Egyptian art isn't in Cairo or Alexandria but a village of only ten thousand people. Harrania, near the great pyramids of Giza and Saqqara produces tapestries, pottery and batik prints that have been exhibited in Britain, France and the United States. The artists use nature and their environment as their inspiration. They use age-old, traditional methods. The STORY began more than thirty years ago when a wealthy architect from Cairo, Ramses Wissa Wassef, set up an art school in the village.
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El Sultan Carpet School - Cairo, Egypt near Saqqara
GoAhead Tours Egypt
March 5 16, 2009
Day 1 - Giza & the Pyramids
Board your overnight flight to Egypt.
Day 2 - Giza & the Pyramids
Touch down in Cairo. A Go Ahead representative meets you at the airport and accompanies you on the transfer to Giza. Enjoy an included welcome dinner.
Day 3 - Giza & the Pyramids
Your tour director, a professional Egyptologist, is an expert in the history and anthropology of the regions youll visit. Today, your tour director leads a fascinating tour of ancient Egypt. Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Pyramids of Giza is the only one to have survived to the modern era, and your tour introduces you to the three pyramids here: the stunning Great Pyramid of Cheops, pyramid of Khafre and pyramid of Menkaure. Then visit the enigmatic Sphinx, made up of a lions body, human face and royal beard. Continue to Saqqara, site of the Step Pyramid of Zoser, and Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt that predated Cairo by more than 3,500 years.
Day 4 - Giza & the Pyramids
Enjoy a free day in Giza or join an optional excursion to mysterious Alexandria (weather permitting), ancient site of the lost library and capital of Alexander the Great's Egypt. Visit Egypt's second-largest city where relics date back as far as the 2nd century. Visit the new Alexandria library, the Roman Amphitheater plus other Egyptian treasures.
Day 5 - Nile River Cruise
Fly to Luxor for the start of your Nile cruise. Spend the day touring the Nile's West Bank. Your tour director/Egyptologist leads you to the secluded Valley of the Kings, a series of tombs hidden in the Theban Hills. This Place of Truth, as the ancient Egyptians called it, is the location of the tombs of Pharaohs Tutankhamun and Ramses. You'll enter a few of the tombs for a tour. Then visit and tour the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, devoted to one of the few female pharaohs. Also, view the 64-foot-high Colossi of Memnon and tour the Valley of Nobles, whose temples depict amazing scenes of daily Egyptian life.
Day 6 - Nile River Cruise
This morning, visit theTemples of Karnak and Luxor, built on ancient Thebes and long considered two of the worlds richest archaeological treasures. Then relax onboard as you sail towards Edfu.
Day 7 - Nile River Cruise
Dock in Edfu and begin the day with a visit to the Temple of Horus, the second-largest temple in Egypt and one of the best-preserved. Next, voyage to the Temple of Kom Ombo. On your guided tour, look at the amazing Roman reliefs of medical instruments, proof that Egyptian medicine was already a sophisticated science nearly 2,000 years ago.
Day 8 - Nile River Cruise
Tour the Aswan Dam, one of the greatest engineering projects of the 20th century. Also view the Temple of Isis at Philae and the Unfinished Obelisk, once destined to be the largest structure of worked stone in the world.
Day 9 - Aswan
Your cruise ends this morning. After disembarkation, take a felucca (traditional Egyptian sailboat) ride past Elephantine Island, which takes its name from the granite rocks resembling elephants bathing in the river. Also view the mausoleum of Agha Khan.
Day 10 - Cairo
Opt for a half-day excursion to Abu Simbel and the magnificent Temple of Ramses II. In Abu Simbel, visit the Temples of Ramses II and his wife Nefertari, which were relocated block by block to make way for the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
Day 11 - Cairo
Today, your tour director/Egyptologist leads a comprehensive sightseeing tour of historic and modern Cairo. The citys spectacular mosques, of which there are more than 500, display some of the finest examples of Islamic architecture in the world. Visit the Citadel and Mohammed Ali (Alabaster) Mosque. Also visit the Egyptian Antiquities Museum, housing the famous masks of Tutankhamun. You might also choose to join an optional lunch in Cairo.
Day 12 - Cairo
Transfer to the airport for an early morning departure, or journey to Sinai for our beach resort extension.
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Egypt ( (listen) EE-jipt; Arabic: مِصر Miṣr, Egyptian Arabic: مَصر Maṣr, Coptic: Ⲭⲏⲙⲓ Khēmi), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt is a Mediterranean country bordered by the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Gulf of Aqaba to the east, the Red Sea to the east and south, Sudan to the south, and Libya to the west. Across the Gulf of Aqaba lies Jordan, across the red sea lies Saudi Arabia, and across the Mediterranean lie Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, although none share a land border with Egypt.
Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country, tracing its heritage back to the 6th–4th millennia BCE. Considered a cradle of civilisation, Ancient Egypt saw some of the earliest developments of writing, agriculture, urbanisation, organised religion and central government. Iconic monuments such as the Giza Necropolis and its Great Sphinx, as well the ruins of Memphis, Thebes, Karnak, and the Valley of the Kings, reflect this legacy and remain a significant focus of scientific and popular interest. Egypt's long and rich cultural heritage is an integral part of its national identity, which has endured, and often assimilated, various foreign influences, including Greek, Persian, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and Nubian. Egypt was an early and important centre of Christianity, but was largely Islamised in the seventh century and remains a predominantly Muslim country, albeit with a significant Christian minority.
From the 16th to the beginning of the 20th century, Egypt was ruled by foreign imperial powers: The Ottoman Empire and the British Empire. Modern Egypt dates back to 1922, when it gained nominal independence from the British Empire as a monarchy. However, British military occupation of Egypt continued, and many Egyptians believed that the monarchy was an instrument of British colonialism. Following the 1952 revolution, Egypt expelled British soldiers and bureaucrats and ended British occupation, nationalized the British-held Suez Canal, exiled King Farouk and his family, and declared itself a republic. In 1958 it merged with Syria to form the United Arab Republic, which dissolved in 1961. Throughout the second half of the 20th century, Egypt endured social and religious strife and political instability, fighting several armed conflicts with Israel in 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973, and occupying the Gaza Strip intermittently until 1967. In 1978, Egypt signed the Camp David Accords, officially withdrawing from the Gaza Strip and recognising Israel. The country continues to face challenges, from political unrest, including the recent 2011 revolution and its aftermath, to terrorism and economic underdevelopment. Egypt's current government is a presidential republic headed by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and was described by a number of watchdogs as authoritarian.
Islam is the official religion of Egypt and Arabic is its official language. With over 95 million inhabitants, Egypt is the most populous country in North Africa, the Middle East, and the Arab world, the third-most populous in Africa (after Nigeria and Ethiopia), and the fifteenth-most populous in the world. The great majority of its people live near the banks of the Nile River, an area of about 40,000 square kilometres (15,000 sq mi), where the only arable land is found. The large regions of the Sahara desert, which constitute most of Egypt's territory, are sparsely inhabited. About half of Egypt's residents live in urban areas, with most spread across the densely populated centres of greater Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities in the Nile Delta.
The sovereign state of Egypt is a transcontinental country considered to be a regional power in North Africa, the Middle East and the Muslim world, and a middle power worldwide. Egypt's economy is one of the ...
Egypt | Wikipedia audio article
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00:05:25 1 Names
00:06:22 2 History
00:06:31 2.1 Prehistory and Ancient Egypt
00:10:41 2.1.1 Achaemenid Egypt
00:12:18 2.2 Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
00:14:19 2.3 Middle Ages (7th century – 1517)
00:16:37 2.4 Abbasid period
00:17:36 2.4.1 The Fatimid Caliphate and the Mamluks
00:18:23 2.5 Early modern: Ottoman Egypt (1517–1867)
00:20:01 2.5.1 The Muhammad Ali dynasty
00:23:17 2.6 The European intrusion (1867–1914)
00:25:40 2.7 British protectorate (1882–1952)
00:27:53 2.8 Republic (1953–present)
00:28:28 2.8.1 Tenure of President Nasser (1956–1970)
00:33:26 2.8.2 Tenure of President Sadat (1970–1981)
00:35:42 2.8.3 Tenure of President Mubarak (1981–2011)
00:40:04 2.8.4 Revolution and aftermath (2011–2014)
00:44:35 3 Geography
00:47:16 3.1 Climate
00:50:18 3.2 Biodiversity
00:52:25 4 Government
00:55:31 4.1 Law
00:57:51 4.1.1 Human rights
01:03:02 4.1.2 Freedom of the press
01:03:52 4.2 Military and foreign relations
01:10:21 4.3 Administrative divisions
01:10:48 5 Economy
01:17:20 5.1 Tourism
01:18:39 5.2 Energy
01:19:45 5.3 Transport
01:21:34 5.3.1 Suez Canal
01:23:50 5.4 Water supply and sanitation
01:25:18 5.5 Irrigated land and crops
01:26:14 6 Demographics
01:28:39 6.1 Ethnic groups
01:30:48 6.2 Languages
01:32:13 6.3 Religion
01:37:06 6.4 Largest cities
01:37:15 7 Culture
01:39:07 7.1 Arts
01:40:25 7.2 Literature
01:41:49 7.3 Media
01:42:16 7.4 Cinema
01:43:19 7.5 Music
01:44:24 7.6 Dances
01:45:01 7.7 Museums
01:46:47 7.8 Festivals
01:47:45 7.9 Cuisine
01:49:05 7.10 Sports
01:53:46 8 Telecommunication
01:54:29 8.1 Post
01:55:04 8.2 Social Media
01:55:26 9 Education
01:58:40 10 Health
02:01:14 11 See also
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- reduce eye strain
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SUMMARY
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Egypt ( (listen) EE-jipt; Arabic: مِصر Miṣr, Egyptian Arabic: مَصر Maṣr, Coptic: Ⲭⲏⲙⲓ Khēmi), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt is a Mediterranean country bordered by the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Gulf of Aqaba to the east, the Red Sea to the east and south, Sudan to the south, and Libya to the west. Across the Gulf of Aqaba lies Jordan, across the Red Sea lies Saudi Arabia, and across the Mediterranean lie Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, although none share a land border with Egypt.
Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country, tracing its heritage back to the 6th–4th millennia BCE. Considered a cradle of civilisation, Ancient Egypt saw some of the earliest developments of writing, agriculture, urbanisation, organised religion and central government. Iconic monuments such as the Giza Necropolis and its Great Sphinx, as well the ruins of Memphis, Thebes, Karnak, and the Valley of the Kings, reflect this legacy and remain a significant focus of scientific and popular interest. Egypt's long and rich cultural heritage is an integral part of its national identity, which has endured, and often assimilated, various foreign influences, including Greek, Persian, Roman, Arab, Ottoman Turkish, and Nubian. Egypt was an early and important centre of Christianity, but was largely Islamised in the seventh century and remains a predominantly Muslim country, albeit with a significant Christian minority.
From the 16th to the beginning of the 20th century, Egypt was ruled by foreign imperial powers: The Ottoman Empire and the British Empire. Modern Egypt dates back to 1922, when it gained nominal independence from the British Empire as a monarchy. However, British military occupation of Egypt continued, and many Egyptians believed that the monarchy was an instrument of British colonialism. Following the 1952 revolution, Egypt expelled British soldiers and bureaucrats and ended British oc ...