4 50 218 https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/240ff8ca9ae6ae0950942b4031f64a9d.jpg 983a796fefdd5c4ce91109b7742f2d16 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/8800baea89e872e449a758a473d486a4.jpg 6afbc1b7aac6743d561e4f564aae87d5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/495cb07d18828f670e2b1c12a19d2bb0.jpg a6931757f3dd8369aa078067b31e273e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/c1a8a309ba2001ad7a5dec46fab2d59c.jpg 87284816bb975c675ee46091a6eff0ed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior non-Egyptian photographer single person per image street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/5715c33af3347048ee711b6116679ebf.jpg 99daeb2c8e4157098d2a4e346fdcdf56 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/07dd05fa1fbf5c2993108ba58ba8ca2c.jpg 9c4842035170f9b521e6557cf069d3a0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/1b0eb78339166920b4c3d9ad046da7ae.jpg 35c231e304eaa54ee29a2b6732d5cde5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer non-Egyptian photographer single person per image street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/97ffa5dd5c3b7ba6c24c29c178aaa9c1.jpg f470da1ab79b8e896e039e899202dc11 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/652272c0942df82fc6f3d351de3818ad.jpg 5442685540063b47496e9ba6a4acd597 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/acd6d6a019d23fa243ca9c4f438a42cc.jpg 35dd7e120910920033cc21f287b18d46 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/57c905f1ea0a7d96fa76e84f905fb81a.jpg 8b6750484769a8592ff3199b34ca53c0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/c144096edb38b48d17ecf30fb457b42f.jpg 37519239a634ead5cbfeb6764e5bb9bc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/c17142dd0d6aa38b7333f3a91eb98837.jpg fb4bb8ca307929d448e78dd552a9c730 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/6dd3dab8beb342bd2eaf09719ae23033.jpg d35ab3dde3fd94d1942fb21b8d2da617 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/6d149fec4a8cbb646bf583145cdfd621.jpg 38d8b47f363aad6bfe3713c33146afe0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer non-Egyptian photographer single person per image street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/95e1c4382658101838863db7ea46d28f.jpg 4abd8ee77a3a467d24c7969b410711a8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/d09c22c22e55502fc5b4427105a194ad.jpg 18f3dca057768f4bc53e3fe6a3e35362 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/346cb8e1b81272804cbe8d593c1e4d5b.jpg 55a5a371c0af9634a4b34defb2c35f0b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/2c0ac05230aed47e05e2785e477aa924.jpg e061e27136cb43f0261265e6cd922d9d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/7d6374a94c1b8e596bff35746de9a56c.jpg f54cd8042ab3494f55d238497b6d9fb2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/1fd6e510d200048dbe1f6ac7dec27dfa.jpg 6a19024145136c65217c7aef8ecbe576 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/22fd973c9c12dbeb704f7e36b3bbf48d.jpg 313278eb49fa4c6bcc0d1f6a7116eb8e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/aee032847473fd96a8909aad455a690a.jpg 548cb73516c353ff3719d20fabc1c774 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/1604da19058f3fc06a27780cba46f1a3.jpg ec44c003d9f7041c61fde49af002a3ca Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/ecec9caa1cbde7931da96f2fb66592f4.jpg 308532a0e1e316ad743ce20a7841eb89 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer non-Egyptian photographer single person per image street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/04069aa6043ea49ba7704792be8e6b37.jpg eda97c25af500882af828638ecc7fc56 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer non-Egyptian photographer single person per image street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/20c014239793398e4e562e074d1630e8.jpg a2d9eb4cf8199e3006d11f14e6c671a9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/3fab5899bb9dfb657b1cea04873a9796.jpg ad8b706c78b62b61fba28681933f1645 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer non-Egyptian photographer single person per image street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/72de15508d25e02f74ca8f77b4319d91.jpg d94832302a1e446cb30207d804fd5d5c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer non-Egyptian photographer single person per image street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/b229041f266c41249643466f2dc64ba2.jpg 87c571e4126192f025c2f2bbf7ec0fd4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/2da6dbf23f6f9bf1e4c631d3416a971c.jpg 1a3232a9c41fac535006afda443fd735 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/8bbaed3c9c4dbf049958ead12f87e6ed.jpg b6bc8006ea9dc8d7ca4bf9748c34c9fc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/e38357ab027d3f4377c947f5cb8960ae.jpg dc9950abf38a81209f0d9c6fb04df6a3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/9fdbd8d1b054f12d799a02d6667fa931.jpg ac2fbcf5035dc7c6cb769e3e172d5d06 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/e083af89a1d84ac981beff266b54aaa1.jpg c9b4dca134e85ee80e0ddd133b334b18 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/57674427cd40e383635659730897cc91.jpg 362a22fe698a2a641ebe03f5d5d481d5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/c11a919358dda72c88f835b26c3c41cb.jpg 90ec6501e92fb32fb371c4a11a8359c9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/9cf75b385a53c712f2f86e0eec7c1a43.jpg 6bea5b0755b6632586ece1be53da49a9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer non-Egyptian photographer single person per image street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/c51ab8578b521a02c6d89bc9982762b3.jpg 4c0808dc756a6fdca193b6d6ac5f602d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/070df12924b14faad6e7c5e66a9c2b75.jpg 38d0914555dd484597d65f44283a1a18 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer non-Egyptian photographer single person per image street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/7a0cd9db5736bf193032558ba6999566.jpg 9cdb0c00be26a0b3f5f9a283773f76e7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer non-Egyptian photographer single person per image street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/cacc36584be8ebd2abd8beaf968267fd.jpg 6f36203fc9068f44a631d65879683617 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer non-Egyptian photographer single person per image street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/50977177c587983285bd2ce5bb0df935.jpg 8ce4451889b02907df4a2990d7c3570d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer non-Egyptian photographer single person per image street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/bdc5fab166fda244c8354dbe9a7a601d.jpg 1c4df84a50b9789db2c621d6c15b8b45 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer non-Egyptian photographer single person per image street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/d34802cce18ece441e2818df6df8df29.jpg 7a29a9c54ffaa4e5f5eb4678e46c9817 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/cd9cd55c1ab5da573e68a9eeaa9ada75.jpg c5981f4184092c2ed7213cc9c00065f7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aswan Women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: When I was photographing around Aswan, portraying the daily – life of the people in different situations on the streets, near their shops, houses, from kids to adults, trying to really understand these places. This ancient city, well known for their Nubian Egyptian splendid temples, but not at all about the people that live here today. Of course I photographed kids, men and also many women, observing how they look like and how their life is very different in this country, comparing to my European, Italian culture. The beauty to see and understand different places is especially interesting when some questions come naturally, observing behaviors and their cultural society mind settings, which drive and move the lives of their inhabitants. As it was very strange to see that a person can dress completely in black, from the head to the feet, when outside is sunny with 48 degrees. Not only it doesn’t look comfortable, but bring you down a lot of energy, being like in a kind of oven. Like all Italian women, that we love the sun and that we have conquered very slowly in the last 50 years, our rights more equal to the men’s right, of course be on the streets of the South of Egypt, is like to be in another “World”. Where the perception of “You” as a woman, became suddenly “strange” and the eyes and mind of the people on the streets look, trade and relate differently then in the Western countries. And the difference is even more deep, if you are an Egyptian woman and not a tourist one. I’ve been in many families situations and many weddings around and I could see how the women roles are inside the family circle and how relate in the outside structure society. The most interesting thing actually is not even the difference with my Italian-Western culture, but the big difference that ironically there is between the Egyptian society today and how was in the ancient temples times, of more then 2.000 years ago, looking like the ancient past is much more futuristic then these “modern” Egyptian times. Where is very clear that the status of the women was more equal and an important part of All the Circles of Life, that the ancient always had a deep relation and respect of all alive creatures, which come to visit this Earth and will go back to the stars, far out there on the sky. Observing how the history events go and change sometimes radically the life of the people and often of women, is a great way to learn how many answers you can have to the same questions, just because you are in a different “Place of Thinking”. We are and we like to be different, but the real important question at the end of the day and of all the times, is: “What we archived as humans, individuals first, with a great power of Thinking and Feel, if it is not permit to really think and feel… and learn more for the good of Everybody??”. But the Women, creators of life, in some places have a really not any individual considerations, to the point that they should cover not only all their body, but also their unique face with their thoughts and feelings expressions of every second of their life. A married woman is a “property” of the husband, that should hide more is possible and be visible and useful just for him and the family related. And this is “Who we are” in some places, but if somebody decide to denied or hide this primordial way to exist and relate with others is all good, but the important that it is not accepted and followed as unfair rules and behaviors that for some reason changed the Women’s life for so long time, without to express often the best of themselves, that is not only clean and cook. In fact, the Egyptians today are not so connected with the ancient Egyptian philosophy of life. They are proud of the old temples which bring a lot of tourists from all over the world, but of course the Muslim Mosques are their reference and home of a different God! I photographed simple, different daily and sometimes funny situations of women in their streets, full of life, colors and movement everywhere, where people are very welcome, playful and ironic. Hopefully the new generations, will understand what is really right between Humans, no matter if Man or Woman, that should be a basic human sense, that in some societies is finally very clear, in other not at all. Woman are great creatures and deserve not to be came like men, but like them, have the chance to express their same and different high human qualities. Description An account of the resource ASWAN, Feb. – May, 2018. Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt and in the ancient past it was very important, considered the “begin” of the Upper country. It was a trade place with incredible culture and beautiful temples. Most of the Egyptian tombs, temples, colossal statues, obelisks and pyramids were made with huge blocks of particular granite from the famed far southern Aswan quarries. Aswan, being close to the Nubian region on the border between the Arab and African world, was called “The gateway to Africa.” Its glorious pharaonic ancient past is still visible today, but unfortunately only in the stunning beauty of the temples, monuments, tombs and archeological sites along the blue Nile. Thanks to the great work of the UNESCO, twenty-two important Nubian-Egyptian temples were deconstructed and relocated before the end of the construction of the Aswan’s High Dam (1960 – ’76). Save these beautiful ancient temples, like Philae, Kalabsha, Amada, Abu Simbel and others have been vital also for Aswan’s local economy, because they are the main regional international tourist attraction. With the creation of the dam and the largest artificial Lake Nasser, most of the ancient Nubia sinked under the water and around 100,000 Nubians were forced to flee 39 villages. They have been relocated in Sudan and in Egypt and in Aswan there is the biggest number of Nubians, which moved here and in other new 44 villages of the other northern towns. Aswan, today, is well-known for its archeological treasures, but not so much for the life of its modern-day inhabitants. I was interested in discovering and photographing the real identity of this city, with its vivacious and smiling kids, teenagers, men, women and families in the streets, near their houses and where they work. The streets are full of life and sounds, especially in its center, where an old souk expands like a labyrinth and is always bustling day and night. Like in many other countries, strong transformations of religion, culture and politic had shaped until today this country that stil going trough difficult years. Unfortunately, these long years of social and economical problems and the decline of tourism are very visible in all country and also in the degradation of this city. Where many new buildings are unfinished and the oldest ones are degrading for the lack of maintenance, between condos and simple and colored family houses. It was a pity to see the amount of plastic everywhere, especially thinking how beautiful the Nile is around here, clean and mostly untouched on the south area of the city, with many colorful Nubian Villages along the river surrounded by the desert. Interesting aspects between the ancient and modern times, reveal different cultural contrasts and questions about this society’s evolution and how the same descendants have changed, more or less freely, the path of some basic social believe systems. Despite many problems of this interesting country, the Egyptians, especially in Aswan, keep always a smile and a happy loud welcome for any kind of tourist. Many are funny, saying…: ”Welcome to Alaska!” Aswan is one of the hottest, sunniest and driest cities in the world. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://monialippi.com/aswan-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available No. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Feb. – May 2018 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource street photography, documentary photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Aswan Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Monia Lippi depicting women exterior female photographer non-Egyptian photographer single person per image street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/b3c542784be4f81abd4c57a5c074d6d6.jpg ac15b06e77b84ab12a3ccafe435b2a04 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Transgender In Egypt Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: As a photojournalist, I used to check many different stories and projects from different communities around the world including the transgender stories, but I had never been interested to do a story about the Trangenders in Egypt. Many topics look more important and urgent. In 2017, I received a new challenging assignment from the Norwegian newspaper 'Klassekampen' to discuss the transgender issues in Egypt. It was not easy at all to fulfill what the editor asked for, especially the research phase, but the good point was that the reporter could help me to find cases. Usually, I did search before taking photos as I believe that my work to find data about any topic and then visualize it. The search for this story was really interesting and offered me new information about the situation of the Transgender community in Egypt. Surprisingly, I found that changing your gender was not criminalised in Egypt and there were official ways to do it, but I found also that way was a very bureaucratic process which could take years. After meeting and talking with cases even those who don't want to be photographed, I have understood more and more about this sensitive vulnerable community. In short words, they spent years of struggling inside their families and society to convince relatives that they have the right to change their gender, and then they have to go through a very long process. Their second choice is to change the gender unofficially with doctors who exploit them and then frauding official IDs to change the name and gender. All of these encouraged me to keep going with this story trying to find more cases even after I delivered my assignment to the newspaper, but the sensitive situation for the cases and my limited time prevented me from taking more photos. Description An account of the resource Unfortunately, after as I remember two weeks of searching we found only two cases who accepted to be photographed. The first case was in Cairo for trans man and the second was in Alexandria for a trans woman. We did the first shoot in Cairo with a case called Mohamed Allam who was already a famous transgender in Egypt. The second shoot was more sensitive as our case accepted to be photographed but without showing her face. We did the shooting and I showed the case all photos to decided which ones kept her anonymous. We have also agreed not to publish these photos at any Egyptian publication. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mohamed Ali Eddin Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.alieddin.com/albums/transgender-in-egypt/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available – Klassekampen (Norwegian newspaper), 2017 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned by Klassekampen Language A language of the resource Norwegian Type The nature or genre of the resource Portrait photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Cairo, Alexandria Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mohamed Ali Eddin depicting women Egyptian photographer interior male photographer single person per image https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/12ed4a158fa9a4aa17b6192ed5699b6d.jpg e80ce7a1313e39fb597336ed6cc1926d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Transgender In Egypt Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: As a photojournalist, I used to check many different stories and projects from different communities around the world including the transgender stories, but I had never been interested to do a story about the Trangenders in Egypt. Many topics look more important and urgent. In 2017, I received a new challenging assignment from the Norwegian newspaper 'Klassekampen' to discuss the transgender issues in Egypt. It was not easy at all to fulfill what the editor asked for, especially the research phase, but the good point was that the reporter could help me to find cases. Usually, I did search before taking photos as I believe that my work to find data about any topic and then visualize it. The search for this story was really interesting and offered me new information about the situation of the Transgender community in Egypt. Surprisingly, I found that changing your gender was not criminalised in Egypt and there were official ways to do it, but I found also that way was a very bureaucratic process which could take years. After meeting and talking with cases even those who don't want to be photographed, I have understood more and more about this sensitive vulnerable community. In short words, they spent years of struggling inside their families and society to convince relatives that they have the right to change their gender, and then they have to go through a very long process. Their second choice is to change the gender unofficially with doctors who exploit them and then frauding official IDs to change the name and gender. All of these encouraged me to keep going with this story trying to find more cases even after I delivered my assignment to the newspaper, but the sensitive situation for the cases and my limited time prevented me from taking more photos. Description An account of the resource Unfortunately, after as I remember two weeks of searching we found only two cases who accepted to be photographed. The first case was in Cairo for trans man and the second was in Alexandria for a trans woman. We did the first shoot in Cairo with a case called Mohamed Allam who was already a famous transgender in Egypt. The second shoot was more sensitive as our case accepted to be photographed but without showing her face. We did the shooting and I showed the case all photos to decided which ones kept her anonymous. We have also agreed not to publish these photos at any Egyptian publication. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mohamed Ali Eddin Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.alieddin.com/albums/transgender-in-egypt/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available – Klassekampen (Norwegian newspaper), 2017 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned by Klassekampen Language A language of the resource Norwegian Type The nature or genre of the resource Portrait photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Cairo, Alexandria Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mohamed Ali Eddin Egyptian photographer interior male photographer not depicting women still life https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/1303a87f3ac252fe87b276dc75907bdf.jpg 913d2abe20748aa93f368d02c9d02d3c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Transgender In Egypt Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: As a photojournalist, I used to check many different stories and projects from different communities around the world including the transgender stories, but I had never been interested to do a story about the Trangenders in Egypt. Many topics look more important and urgent. In 2017, I received a new challenging assignment from the Norwegian newspaper 'Klassekampen' to discuss the transgender issues in Egypt. It was not easy at all to fulfill what the editor asked for, especially the research phase, but the good point was that the reporter could help me to find cases. Usually, I did search before taking photos as I believe that my work to find data about any topic and then visualize it. The search for this story was really interesting and offered me new information about the situation of the Transgender community in Egypt. Surprisingly, I found that changing your gender was not criminalised in Egypt and there were official ways to do it, but I found also that way was a very bureaucratic process which could take years. After meeting and talking with cases even those who don't want to be photographed, I have understood more and more about this sensitive vulnerable community. In short words, they spent years of struggling inside their families and society to convince relatives that they have the right to change their gender, and then they have to go through a very long process. Their second choice is to change the gender unofficially with doctors who exploit them and then frauding official IDs to change the name and gender. All of these encouraged me to keep going with this story trying to find more cases even after I delivered my assignment to the newspaper, but the sensitive situation for the cases and my limited time prevented me from taking more photos. Description An account of the resource Unfortunately, after as I remember two weeks of searching we found only two cases who accepted to be photographed. The first case was in Cairo for trans man and the second was in Alexandria for a trans woman. We did the first shoot in Cairo with a case called Mohamed Allam who was already a famous transgender in Egypt. The second shoot was more sensitive as our case accepted to be photographed but without showing her face. We did the shooting and I showed the case all photos to decided which ones kept her anonymous. We have also agreed not to publish these photos at any Egyptian publication. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mohamed Ali Eddin Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.alieddin.com/albums/transgender-in-egypt/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available – Klassekampen (Norwegian newspaper), 2017 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned by Klassekampen Language A language of the resource Norwegian Type The nature or genre of the resource Portrait photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Cairo, Alexandria Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mohamed Ali Eddin depicting women Egyptian photographer interior male photographer single person per image https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/4cd415b8b522c7ac398888e5e346e807.jpg cd7be606b4f429041812d349c35eb5ed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Homemade Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: Heba is moved by personal stories. She believes that art should also be a constant process of experimentation. She decided to do a photo series based on the idea of collage: combining different elements to magnify the story. Description An account of the resource Ever since I was young girl I was constantly reminded by mother that being a girl is a liability and burden. I need to be extra careful of my actions. I cannot stay out late - what people would say about me? Even when I got divorced I was reminded by my family: “Be careful, you are a girl.” We live all our life guarding our body. You have to get married before you become too old to bear children. You have to preserve your figure to stay desirable. You have to you have to... Entrapped in this body I resented it. I wished to lose it, to live without it. It started as a private group on Facebook. Together, a group of women share our feelings and personal stories. Then we meet in person. We discuss what it means to be living with all these pressures, simply because we own this body. We talk about how each of us discovered what it means to be a woman. Faces turn red, tears start rolling and at that moment of openness a magical bond between us is born. From their words I take some time and start visualizing how the image of their story might look. After I photographed the women, I noticed a change. Two women decide to show their faces in the images, something they previously resisted. They do not care about the consequences; they feel liberated. Storytelling is a way to heal, to free ourselves from the weight of experience. The women who found the strength to stand and speak in front of the camera, this is the real gift. It gives me the strength to photograph and I hope it will give other women who are still silent the strength to open the door. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Heba Khalifa Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://arabdocphotography.org/project/homemade Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <ul><li>2016 Arab Documentary Photography</li> <li>2017 Homemade – Talk in Magnum Foundation New York</li> <li>2017 Homemade – Women photographers in Singapore</li> <li>2018 Homemade – Lianzhou Foto in China</li> <li>2019 Homemade (Collective exhibition The Distance Between Us during the GPP photo week in Dubai)</li> </ul> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: <br /><ul><li>The Prince Claus Fund</li> <li>The Magnum Foundation</li> <li>The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC)</li> </ul> Language A language of the resource English, Arabic Type The nature or genre of the resource 3D-collage, studio photography Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Location: Cairo Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014 – 2016 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Heba Khalifa Egyptian photographer female photographer interior not depicting women still life