Camberwell College of Art

SHOULD I BE OFFENDED??

As I now live and work as a British artist there are many people who don’t know that I came to England in 2002 in the age of 32. Before that I studied and worked in Egypt, that’s where I got the characteristics which define my work from any work (good or bad) you see on a daily basis in Europe, specially England.

I found out that the following lines always pop up in conversations regarding my work, and it goes like this:

x- I really like your work

me- thank you very much.

x- where are you from?

me- Alexandria

x- and where is that?

me- Egypt!

x- ah, but you studied here didn’t you?

me- no, I studied in Egypt

x- Really?!!!

me – really

today i felt that it’s about time that people get to see some of my Egyptian influences, Egyptian artists some of whom I really admire , unfortunately I can not find all of them on line but try these names by following the links

ADEL EL SIWI

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=adel+el+siwi&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

2.ABDUL HADI AL GAZZAR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdel_Hadi_Al_Gazzar

http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=MXZ&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&resnum=0&q=abdel%20hadi%20el%20gazzar&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi

3. MARGRET NAHKLA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Nakhla

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://lh3.ggpht.com/_SydjxJJN0PY/SkrYJc1_e3I/AAAAAAAACWA/XmmAag7LLAk/IMG_7086.JPG&imgrefurl=http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Lbukp_qHQQMD2YhnxEY3PQ&usg=__pHm_OpgCbIDMYz5IpEJVtV4CgVo=&h=2304&w=3456&sz=264&hl=en&start=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=HFnRshsr0jMF4M:&tbnh=100&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmargaret%2Bnakhla%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26tbs%3Disch:1

have a look and tell me what you think