Many of the city’s most famous structures, such as the American Colony Hotel and the Rockefeller Museum, are decorated with tiles The Armenian ceramic craft industry in Jerusalem is credited to David Ohannessian (1884–1953), who founded the pottery in…
The music of Rwanda includes performers from a wide range of Western genres, such as hip-hop, R&B, gospel music, and pop ballads, as well as contemporary East African Afrobeat and Congolese ndombolo. It also includes Rwandan folk music traditions. The…
Rwanda now has a diverse range of official languages. Although Kinyarwanda, the Bantu languages and the nation’s mother tongue, are spoken by more than 99% of Rwandans, the country also has French, English, and Swahili as official languages More…
Egypt is one of the world’s lesser-known antique rug centers, but lesser known does not imply inferiority in terms of quality, color, design, and historical robustness. Perhaps Egyptian rugs remain unnoticed in the world of antique rugs because Egypt is…
Lily Awam is a young, multi-talented Saudi artist who sometimes paints on walls and pottery, besides singing Rap and Reggae in Arabic and English and being a composer, author, graphic designer, and social media administrator in Darb 1718 A…
Krikor Partamian (July 27, 1921–2010) was a talented amateur opera singer and actor who acted in plays. He was born in Turkey and may have been two years old upon arriving in Egypt. He had a childhood and young…
The story started a long time ago, before the Melkonian and Matossian brothers. It begins with Nestor Gianaclis, the founder of the industry, a Greek who arrived in Egypt in 1864 and 1871 and established a factory in the Khairy…
Hossam Sakr is an Egyptian artist who explores the routes of human communication by expressing himself through portrait art. His artworks are expressed by sophisticated techniques and a great sense of colour Sakr was influenced by the disciplined art…
