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Azza Fahmy is an Egyptian jewellery designer, and the founder of the design house Azza Fahmy Jewellery. [1] Fahmy was the first woman to train in Egypt's jewellery quarter, Khan El Khalili. [2] In 2013 Fahmy founded ‘The Design Studio by Azza Fahmy’, in partnership with Alchimia, Contemporary Design School in Florence. [3] [4]
As early as the Old Kingdom (c. 2670–2195 B.C.), Egyptian artisans fashioned images of deities, kings, and mortals wearing broad collars made of molded tubular and teardrop beads. [1] The Usekh or Wesekh is a personal ornament, a type of broad collar or necklace , familiar to many because of its presence in images of the ancient Egyptian elite.
Egyptian men do not typically wear jewelry in the modern day, though they may wear prayer beads. The modern galabiya has a low scooped neckline with a slit in the bottom. Sometimes this slit has buttons to close it. The sleeves and hem flare out to be very wide. It is made of paler, lighter colors in summer, and darker, heavier fabric for winter.
Jewellery (or jewelry in American English) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes.
Sample of ancient Egyptian linen from Saqqara, dating to 390-343 BC (Late Period) Modern illustration of a man's tunic in the style popularized in the New Kingdom. In ancient Egypt, linen was a common textile as it helped people to be comfortable in the subtropical heat.
The first modern Egyptian novel Zaynab by Muhammad Husayn Haykal was published in 1913 in the Egyptian vernacular. Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz was the first Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Many Egyptian books and films are available throughout the Middle East.