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Art From The Mind's Eye
The Story of the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre
Brief Description
Over the past 75 years, the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Center in the village of Harrania, near Cairo, has reached world renown through the beauty of its tapestries and the sensitivity of its philosophy. What these works, and the other artistic creations of the centre reveal,...
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The story of Ramses Wissa Wassef and the Wissa Wassef Art Center's unique experiment in tapestry weaving that has become world renowned and continues to develop three generations later.
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Description
Over the past 75 years, the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Center in the village of Harrania, near Cairo, has reached world renown through the beauty of its tapestries and the sensitivity of its philosophy. What these works, and the other artistic creations of the centre reveal, is a beautiful truth: that all of us are born with a potential to be artists which, in the right circumstances, can flourish throughout our lives.
Today tapestries by the Wissa Wassef weavers grace museums in the Middle East, North America and Europe, but when the project began in the streets of Old Cairo in the early 1940s, no one could have predicted it would achieve such recognition. Then its founder, Ramses Wissa Wassef, was just a young man with an improbable dream. Art From The Mind's Eye tells the story of where that dream came from, how he realised it, and the ways in which it continues to develop three generations later.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781739469436
Publisher: Art Publishing Inc.
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 08 September 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Art Publishing Inc.
Illustration: 200 color + b-w
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 270.0mm
Height: 313.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 320
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About the Author
Seif El Rashidi is an architectural historian with 20 years of expertise working on heritage preservation and managing projects related to promoting public engagement with heritage and culture. He studied City Design and Social Science at the London School of Economics (Msc), History of Art and Architecture (MA) and Economics (BA) at the American University in Cairo. He is the co-author (with Sam Bowker) of The Tentmakers of Cairo: Egypt’s Medieval and Modern Applique Craft (AUC Press, 2018).
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