My journey started nearly a decade ago with EgyptaBazaar,com, my first website. I envisioned it as an online store to sell Egyptian goods and antiques, but it became so much more. EgyptaBazaar was a spark—it inspired me to dive deeper…
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…
Vahan Telpian was a mystic artist who practiced painting, sculpting, and decorative design. Born in 1963 to an Egyptian Armenian family, inheriting the Armenian artistic genes, and growing up in multicultural Cairo, he was an art lover. Inspired by his…
Kilim is a Turkish word that means pileless textile. It refers to the pile and how dense it is because it is made using a flat weaving techniques A kilim is a flat-woven area rug, whereas the terms “rug” or…
