This book retraces and records hitherto undocumented traditional Egyptian ways of dressing. It demonstrates that costumes are not only objects of practical or esthetic considerations but can also be important historical documents. “Costumes of Egypt: The Lost Legacies”, summarizes decades of research and offers compelling evidence that, irrespective of distant geographic locations, beyond religious and ethnic diversity, Nubians, Nile Valley peasants, Bedouins and oases’ dwellers, were heirs to the same legacy. Old and new emblems were melted down in one tradition defining a multifaceted but harmonious Egyptian identity and bearing witness to the fact that, throughout their history, these various communities were different parts of one, multicultural and pluralistic Nation.
Where memory is the house of culture and knowledge; where the original council, separated by a cultural sidewalk that connects Muharraq with the intellectuals and writers of the world. The house itself, located at the heart of the city, opens its doors to cultural production in the fields of thought, literature, politics, philosophy, culture and art.
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