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American University in Cairo

Archive-It Partner Since: Mar, 2009

Organization Type: Colleges & Universities

Organization URL: http://library.aucegypt.edu/rbscl/   

Description:

The American University in Cairo Web Archive collects, preserves, and provides access to the internet presence of the university, and documents websites related to contemporary Egypt and exploration of its past. Maintained by the Rare Books and Special Collections Library, the archive includes official and non-official websites for AUC, as well as websites reflecting Egypt's arts and culture, architecture, business, travel and leisure, politics (including the 2011 Revolution), and society (such as religious and ethnic communities and gender issues).

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Title: Ramses Wissa Wassef

URL: http://copticwiki.com/wiki/Ramses_Wissa_Wassef

Collection: Egypt and Middle East Architecture, Urbanism, and Built Heritage

Description: Ramses Wissa Wassef (November 9 1911 in Cairo, Egypt - 1974), was a famous Egyptian architect and designer, and a professor of art and architecture at the College of Fine Arts in Cairo. Ramses was also a potter and weaver who taught many disadvantaged Egyptian children to weave tapestries.

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Subject:   Architecture--Egypt,  Wissa Wassef, Ramses

Title: Ramses Wissa Wassef

URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramses_Wissa_Wassef

Collection: Egypt and Middle East Architecture, Urbanism, and Built Heritage

Description: Ramses Wissa Wassef was born in Cairo. His father was a lawyer, a leader of Egypt's nationalist movement and an art patron who promoted the development of the arts in Egypt. After high school, Wassef wanted to become a sculptor but changed his mind and studied architecture in France at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris. His thesis project "A Potter's House in Old Cairo" received the first prize in 1935. He had a passion for beauty in form and believed "one cannot separate beauty from utility, the form from the material, the work from its function, man from his creative art."

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Subject:   Architecture--Egypt,  Wissa Wassef, Ramses

Title: Ramses Wissa Wassef

URL: http://www.multilingualarchive.com/ma/enwiki/es/Ramses_Wissa_Wassef/

Collection: Egypt and Middle East Architecture, Urbanism, and Built Heritage

Description: Ramses Wissa Wassef (November 9, 1911 in Cairo, Egypt - 1974), was a famous Egyptian architect and designer, and a professor of art and architecture at the College of Fine Arts in Cairo.[1] Ramses was also a potter and weaver who taught many disadvantaged Egyptian children to weave tapestries.

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Subject:   Architecture--Egypt,  Wissa Wassef, Ramses

Title: Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre

URL: http://www.wissa-wassef-arts.com/

Collection: Egypt and Middle East Architecture, Urbanism, and Built Heritage

Description: The Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre is the home of a unique experiment in tapestry weaving that has produced extraordinary works admired and collected by museums and galleries around the world. The life work of its founder Ramses Wissa Wassef (1911-1974) was dedicated to releasing the innate creativity of young Egyptian villagers freed from the constraints of a formal education. He wrote:

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Subject:   Architecture--Egypt,  Wissa Wassef, Ramses

Title: Ramses Wissa Wassef

URL: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ramses-Wissa-Wassef/124173537626777

Collection: Egypt and Middle East Architecture, Urbanism, and Built Heritage

Description: Ramses Wissa Wassef (1911–1974) was an Egyptian architect and professor of art and architecture at the College of Fine Arts in Cairo.

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Subject:   Wissa Wassef, Ramses

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