CAIRO
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On the History of Arts and Crafts Education in Modern Egypt
Through out the last three months, we tried to look into the history of the creation of public elementary and higher arts education schools in Egypt. We are doing this through focusing on the establishment of The Egyptian Ornamentations School (which became Faculty of Applied Arts) in the first half of 20th century and the…
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Art Education in Egypt Reading and Research Group
The Art Education in Egypt Reading and Research Group started through an open call in August 2016. The group meets to discuss, read and research the different histories, methodologies, and economies of art education in Egypt, with a particular focus on material published in Arabic. During September and October the group met twice a week…
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ABOUT THIS WORKING GROUP
The Cairo Working Group, Andrea Thal and Hussein El-Hajj, are planning to research and develop concepts and practices of art education and mediation with a critical perspective and awareness for local relevance. In a first step the Cairo Working Group will form an ongoing larger group of local practitioners to research and discuss policy papers…