1 50 218 https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/c6fbd96213d1720659cc89edc2a5c9e4.jpg 3cca1523721b2a029be319465b391461 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 sayeda . women in egypt . Description An account of the resource SAYEDA is a photographic work about women in Egypt. I travelled to Egypt on various occasions to do portraits and interviews with women from different walks of life. Many people in Egypt fight against violations of human, and in particular, women´s rights. In my work, I approached Egyptian women from different social environments whose position in society depends on religion, education, age and socio-economic situation. This work explores the issue of what it means to be a woman in egypt today. I am so thankful to all women I had the great pleasure to meet, listen to and learn from! I received a grant from the german foundation “VG Bild Kunst” for this project. I was also award the “Grenzgänger” Scholarship from the Literarisches Colloqium Berlin and the Robert Bosch Foundation, and this work was supported by the Goethe Institute in Cairo. To see all portraits and read all interviews and also wondeful essays by political scientist Hoda Salah and art historian Franziska Schmidt, please have a look at the book: Amélie Losier, SAYEDA. Frauen in Ägypten. Women in Egypt. Femmes d’Égypte, at editions Nimbus. Kunst und Bücher, 2017, isbn 978-3-03850-037-7 (in German, English and French) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Amélie Losier Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://www.amelielosier.com/sayeda-women-egypt-portraits-and-street-photography Language A language of the resource English, French, German Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <ul><li>http://www.nimbusbooks.ch/buch/sayeda (October 2017)</li> <li><a href="https://www.emma.de/artikel/der-kampf-um-die-verlorene-freiheit-336911">EMMA </a><br /><span>Hoda Salah, </span><span>25. Juni 2019</span></li> <li><span><a href="https://dafg.eu/aktuelles/news/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=1852&amp;cHash=8ccee858130b7a98cf70f4dd8861eaf5">Deutsch-Arabische Freundschaftsgesellschaft</a><br />Redaktion , 28. Juni 2018</span></li> <li><span><a href="https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/078183-003-A/metropolis/">arte METROPOLIS</a><br />Redaktion , 17. Juni 2018</span></li> <li><span><a href="http://www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/video/video-397703.html">ARD, Tagesschau </a><br />Redaktion , 25. April 2018</span></li> <li><span><a href="https://www.daserste.de/information/wissen-kultur/ttt/sendung/ndr/losier100.html">TTT Titel Thesen Temperamente</a><br />Maryam Bonakdar, 23. April 2018</span></li> <li><span><a href="http://www.trierkids.de/news/index.php#650338a8b80eedd01">trierkids.de</a><br />Gabi Böhm, 3. April 2018</span></li> <li><span><a href="http://www.badische-zeitung.de/literatur-und-vortraege/von-starken-und-mutigen-aegypterinnen--148624639.html">Badische Zeitung </a><br />Annemarie Rösch, 26. Januar 2018</span></li> <li><span><a href="http://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/bildband-sayeda-frauen-in-aegypten-all-diese-frauen-sind.1270.de.html?dram:article_id=400781">Deutschlandradio Kultur</a><br />Andrea Gerk, 16. November 2017</span></li> <li><span><a href="https://www.radiox.ch/buchbasel-2017-alle-interviews-zum-nachhoren/">Radio X</a><br />Redaktion, 15. November 2017</span></li> <li><span><a href="https://www.journal21.ch/frauen-in-aegypten">Journal 21</a><br />Stephan Wehowsky, 14. November 2017</span></li> <li><span><a href="http://www.buchjahr.uzh.ch/zuerichliest/category/der-donnerstag/page/2/">Schweizer Buchjahr 17</a><br />Carla Peca, 30. Oktober 2017</span></li> <li><span><a href="http://www.taz.de/!5423630/">taz</a><br />Waltraud Schwab, 8. Juli 2017</span></li> <li><span><a href="https://www.freelens.com/news/sayeda-women-in-egypt/">Freelens</a><br />Paula Tamm, 31. Mai 2017</span></li> <li><span><a href="http://www.berglink.de/frauen-in-aegypten-ein-buchprojekt/">BergLink. Magazin für Entdecker und Entdeckungen</a><br />Redaktion, 19. Mai 2017</span></li> <li> <div> <div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>Face to Face</span></div> </div> <div> <div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>Rosphoto Saint Petersburg, Russland</span></div> </div> <div> <div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>Exhibition 29.02 - 21.04.2020</span></div> <div class="_1mf _1mj"><span><a href="https://rosphoto.org/von-angesicht-zu-angesicht/sayeda/">https://rosphoto.org/von-angesicht-zu-angesicht/sayeda/</a><br /></span></div> </div> </li> </ul> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014 –2017 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Type The nature or genre of the resource Portrait photography, street 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 and aroud, Alexandria, Sadat City and Tunis el Fayoum on the countryside. Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: <br /><blockquote> <div> <div> <div> <ul><li><span>grant from the german foundation “VG Bild Kunst”</span></li> <li><span>“Grenzgänger” scholarship </span><span>from the Literarisches Colloqium Berlin and the Robert Bosch Foundation</span></li> <li><span>supported by the Goethe Institute in Cairo</span></li> </ul></div> </div> </div> </blockquote> Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: Part of my family is originally from French Algiers, but when I set out on this project, I had never visited an Arab country before. I like to encounter foreign worlds to learn about other cultures and people. Photography offers an opportunity, a way in. As a photographer, I am interested in the individual circumstances of people or different groups in the population; often these are people who live on the periphery of society or as a minority, either because of their jobs, their religion or life situation. When the Arab Spring broke out in 2011 and the affected countries were in the media spotlight, I became more concerned with current events and began reading lots of newspaper pieces. Around the same time in 2012, I read a pivotal article written by Egyptian-American journalist and feminist Mona El Tahawy “Why do they hate us?“ which addresses misogyny in Islam. It was like being electrified. I wanted to understand more, and so decided to travel to Egypt to get to know the world of these women: their daily routines, their wishes, dreams and concerns. I wanted to know how differences in social position, religion, education, age and class defined the scope of their lives. The reports about the rapes at Tahrir Square in 2012 and 2013 convinced me of the necessity of this plan. Preparing for the series was sometimes tedious and tough. Luckily, I had friends in Cairo who could tell me a lot about the country and who opened up a lot of doors for me. Films and books, news and newspaper reports provided more information on how Egyptian society developed over the last fifty years and how it runs today. When I received the grant from VG Bild Kunst for the project, the whole thing became much more concrete and I could finally plan the trip. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource This archive only includes a selection of photos from the project. To see the whole project please visit the artists website. 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 Zeinab, Maadi, Cairo Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Amélie Losier depicting women interior non-Egyptian photographer single person per image https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/655f9f832cbc30ebb5bc5f3974a03ca8.jpg e60d9b4543cca446d91de61e80f3f0f7 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 Women suffer under Egypt's radical rule – in pictures Description An account of the resource Photographer Gary Calton and reporter Tracy McVeigh travelled with Plan Egypt to cover the story of the women taking to the streets, opposing a new constitution that sweeps away their rights and opens the way for girls of 13 to be married. Their protests bring them into violent confrontation with government supporters Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Calton Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2013/mar/31/egypt-cairo-women-rights-revolution?fbclid=IwAR1wEWyuDPFbihnFRHCyVS1VKNAJErlpkFSb2bkL081KDFFJI22H9ylVVeE Language A language of the resource english Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Guardian, 31.3.2013 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Not approved to publish Type The nature or genre of the resource Documentary photography Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource ? 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: ? Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed:<br /><ul><li>The Guardian</li> <li>Plan Egypt <br />(https://plan-uk.org/about-because-i-am-a-girl)</li> <li>The Observer</li> </ul> Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: ? 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 Young girls in the poor district of Manial Sheiha Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Calton depicting women interior multiple people per image non-Egyptian photographer https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/c2d5e0ba20771a5cadeb46e41730b1ca.jpg 9ad015e0abc8ee762fd861c4b494955c 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 Women suffer under Egypt's radical rule – in pictures Description An account of the resource Photographer Gary Calton and reporter Tracy McVeigh travelled with Plan Egypt to cover the story of the women taking to the streets, opposing a new constitution that sweeps away their rights and opens the way for girls of 13 to be married. Their protests bring them into violent confrontation with government supporters Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Calton Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2013/mar/31/egypt-cairo-women-rights-revolution?fbclid=IwAR1wEWyuDPFbihnFRHCyVS1VKNAJErlpkFSb2bkL081KDFFJI22H9ylVVeE Language A language of the resource english Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Guardian, 31.3.2013 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Not approved to publish Type The nature or genre of the resource Documentary photography Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource ? 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: ? Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed:<br /><ul><li>The Guardian</li> <li>Plan Egypt <br />(https://plan-uk.org/about-because-i-am-a-girl)</li> <li>The Observer</li> </ul> Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: ? 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 Young anti-government protesters in Tahrir Square prepare to move off to a larger demo several miles away on the hills at Mokattam Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Calton exterior non-Egyptian photographer not depicting women street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/cede72ee4353e575133849f714da1001.jpg 97eeb3ac271e48abbe9f419435aa6738 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 Women suffer under Egypt's radical rule – in pictures Description An account of the resource Photographer Gary Calton and reporter Tracy McVeigh travelled with Plan Egypt to cover the story of the women taking to the streets, opposing a new constitution that sweeps away their rights and opens the way for girls of 13 to be married. Their protests bring them into violent confrontation with government supporters Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Calton Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2013/mar/31/egypt-cairo-women-rights-revolution?fbclid=IwAR1wEWyuDPFbihnFRHCyVS1VKNAJErlpkFSb2bkL081KDFFJI22H9ylVVeE Language A language of the resource english Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Guardian, 31.3.2013 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Not approved to publish Type The nature or genre of the resource Documentary photography Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource ? 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: ? Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed:<br /><ul><li>The Guardian</li> <li>Plan Egypt <br />(https://plan-uk.org/about-because-i-am-a-girl)</li> <li>The Observer</li> </ul> Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: ? 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 Women show their strength of feeling against the government of President Morsi outside the offices of the ministry for women‘s affairs which was torched during the 2011 revolution Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Calton depicting women exterior non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/eed6fbcf7e3c8f5d10aabe2cf72930d7.jpg 662d92b84e8272245d39b66c925064be 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 Women suffer under Egypt's radical rule – in pictures Description An account of the resource Photographer Gary Calton and reporter Tracy McVeigh travelled with Plan Egypt to cover the story of the women taking to the streets, opposing a new constitution that sweeps away their rights and opens the way for girls of 13 to be married. Their protests bring them into violent confrontation with government supporters Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Calton Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2013/mar/31/egypt-cairo-women-rights-revolution?fbclid=IwAR1wEWyuDPFbihnFRHCyVS1VKNAJErlpkFSb2bkL081KDFFJI22H9ylVVeE Language A language of the resource english Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Guardian, 31.3.2013 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Not approved to publish Type The nature or genre of the resource Documentary photography Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource ? 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: ? Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed:<br /><ul><li>The Guardian</li> <li>Plan Egypt <br />(https://plan-uk.org/about-because-i-am-a-girl)</li> <li>The Observer</li> </ul> Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: ? 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 Wedding dresses in a store in Giza are only for wealthier families who can afford to allow their daughters to marry a little later although there is still enormous pressure on girls to marry young and to think of a life inside the home rather than outside of it Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Calton depicting women exterior non-Egyptian photographer street photography https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/ee4b96f1ffb3a7e6a5566c41e5c71055.png 3756f62d948eae9d8e5eb5c8c00cad30 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 Breadwinners Description An account of the resource Portrait series of housekeepers. Photos taken in at their workplaces at the consent of their employers. In a patriarchal society where men can expect to control their wives’ career choices and have a final say over all household matters, a woman may go out into the world, find a job as a housekeeper, earn money and support her whole family. However, her power and status at home may not change at all, so she ends up carrying the burden rather than the privilege of being the sole provider. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lina Geoushy Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.linageoushy.com/breadwinners#2 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <ul><li>GUP New Dutch Photography Talent</li> <li><span>RPS documentary photographer of the year https://www.rpsdpoty.com/ </span></li> </ul> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018-2019 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: self-initiated and self-financed Language A language of the resource English 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 Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: After watching "Roma", the Alfonso Cuarón movie, Lina thought about Cleo, the main character. How she was a part of the family, but not quite. Seeing the large socioeconomics gaps in Egyptian society, Lina was motivated to speak with her friends' housekeepers, especially those who have stayed with the same family for over 5 years - commonplace in Egyptian homes. These women, often downgrading the value of their own labour, are strong and dignified, and actually earn the incomes for their households, hence the name "Breadwinners" 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 Wafaa Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lina Geoushy depicting women Egyptian photographer Egyptian photographer living abroad female photographer interior single person per image https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/c99e6294faa9d3da26836d049c54fc5e.jpg 84226c808ec59e99f78d881b1b862c71 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 In a first, Bedouin women lead tours in Egypt’s Sinai Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: El Mofty had heard about those women from an acquaintance. For the first time, Bedouin women were able to work as tour guides. Such jobs, especially those who entail contact with tourists and "outsiders" in general, were generally not designated for women. To El Mofty, this was a turning point in this community's history. She immediately saw the story's potential, and decided to also write the story as a feature piece. To El Mofty, this was a historical moment that had to be documented, especially that this is happening in Egypt, which made it all the more relevant to her. Description An account of the resource From the AP published story: "Umm Yasser is breaking new ground among the deeply conservative Bedouin of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Women among the Bedouin almost never work outside the home, and even more rarely do they interact with outsiders. But Umm Yasser is one of four women from the community who for the first time are working as tour guides." https://apimagesblog.com/blog/2019/4/9/in-a-first-bedouin-women-lead-tours-in-egypts-sinai Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nariman El-Mofty Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://apimagesblog.com/blog/2019/4/9/in-a-first-bedouin-women-lead-tours-in-egypts-sinai?rq=egypt Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Associated Press Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Approved to publish Relation A related resource Commissioned/supported/financed: Commissioned by the AP Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Editorial 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: Sinai, Egypt Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 2019 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 Nariman El-Mofty depicting women Egyptian photographer exterior female photographer multiple people per image https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/4d6f806203dd73d93b865e2235435b9d.jpg 1d3b6d7f62d068045b06ebc39da6ee46 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 Khokha, street for women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: Khaled was assigned to work on a project with Sally Osama; they were working together on a magazine that was supposed to be funded by the Sawiris Foundation, but the project fell apart. They were trying to find examples of marginalized women in society. Khaled had worked already on a project focusing on women who had lost their partners (published in Egypt Independent, currently Mada Masr), which had given him some access to certain groups of women who he would have otherwise not have access to. He wanted to keep working on similar exploratory projects about women in underprivileged conditions due to questions about gender power relations and privilege that were preoccupying him. Khokha was the result, but it was quite the challenge and quite the learning experience. He learnt more about their life patterns, such as what time of the day would be appropriate to engage with them in conversation/take photos. Description An account of the resource "Khokha" is the Arabic for "Peach", Name of a small street in Coptic Cairo and the nickname of Khadija. Khadijah's husband left her in the 70's and people started calling her Khokha, Then till today, All the men in that small street either left their wives because they couldn't withstand the life in a slum Or they died, Now it's a street only for women, Single mothers, either widows or divorced, it's a place where everybody is taking care of everybody. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sabry Khaled Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://sabrykhaled.com/stories/khokha-street-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available It was supposed to be published in that magazine, but it ended up in another news outlet called Hibr. https://www.7iber.com/2015/01/photos-khokha-women-only/?%3E 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, Arabic Type The nature or genre of the resource 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: Cairo Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015 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 Sabry Khaled depicting women Egyptian photographer exterior male photographer single person per image https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/84530a48baccbf742c48a974fd2cdaea.jpg b7308d615ca8c4cc27b11e499a0b7c9b 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 Khokha, street for women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: Khaled was assigned to work on a project with Sally Osama; they were working together on a magazine that was supposed to be funded by the Sawiris Foundation, but the project fell apart. They were trying to find examples of marginalized women in society. Khaled had worked already on a project focusing on women who had lost their partners (published in Egypt Independent, currently Mada Masr), which had given him some access to certain groups of women who he would have otherwise not have access to. He wanted to keep working on similar exploratory projects about women in underprivileged conditions due to questions about gender power relations and privilege that were preoccupying him. Khokha was the result, but it was quite the challenge and quite the learning experience. He learnt more about their life patterns, such as what time of the day would be appropriate to engage with them in conversation/take photos. Description An account of the resource "Khokha" is the Arabic for "Peach", Name of a small street in Coptic Cairo and the nickname of Khadija. Khadijah's husband left her in the 70's and people started calling her Khokha, Then till today, All the men in that small street either left their wives because they couldn't withstand the life in a slum Or they died, Now it's a street only for women, Single mothers, either widows or divorced, it's a place where everybody is taking care of everybody. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sabry Khaled Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://sabrykhaled.com/stories/khokha-street-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available It was supposed to be published in that magazine, but it ended up in another news outlet called Hibr. https://www.7iber.com/2015/01/photos-khokha-women-only/?%3E 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, Arabic Type The nature or genre of the resource 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: Cairo Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015 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 Sabry Khaled depicting women Egyptian photographer interior male photographer multiple people per image https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/3034f2cc3753009bdd9999a210fbd26b.jpg 50c2db7f43b3ffa192af745fa0ef5723 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 Khokha, street for women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: Khaled was assigned to work on a project with Sally Osama; they were working together on a magazine that was supposed to be funded by the Sawiris Foundation, but the project fell apart. They were trying to find examples of marginalized women in society. Khaled had worked already on a project focusing on women who had lost their partners (published in Egypt Independent, currently Mada Masr), which had given him some access to certain groups of women who he would have otherwise not have access to. He wanted to keep working on similar exploratory projects about women in underprivileged conditions due to questions about gender power relations and privilege that were preoccupying him. Khokha was the result, but it was quite the challenge and quite the learning experience. He learnt more about their life patterns, such as what time of the day would be appropriate to engage with them in conversation/take photos. Description An account of the resource "Khokha" is the Arabic for "Peach", Name of a small street in Coptic Cairo and the nickname of Khadija. Khadijah's husband left her in the 70's and people started calling her Khokha, Then till today, All the men in that small street either left their wives because they couldn't withstand the life in a slum Or they died, Now it's a street only for women, Single mothers, either widows or divorced, it's a place where everybody is taking care of everybody. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sabry Khaled Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://sabrykhaled.com/stories/khokha-street-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available It was supposed to be published in that magazine, but it ended up in another news outlet called Hibr. https://www.7iber.com/2015/01/photos-khokha-women-only/?%3E 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, Arabic Type The nature or genre of the resource 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: Cairo Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015 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 Sabry Khaled depicting women Egyptian photographer exterior male photographer single person per image https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/7f96dadf6de734ff2af9af2c0a337da5.jpg cb4731bf8d855575e97dba00691cf235 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 Khokha, street for women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: Khaled was assigned to work on a project with Sally Osama; they were working together on a magazine that was supposed to be funded by the Sawiris Foundation, but the project fell apart. They were trying to find examples of marginalized women in society. Khaled had worked already on a project focusing on women who had lost their partners (published in Egypt Independent, currently Mada Masr), which had given him some access to certain groups of women who he would have otherwise not have access to. He wanted to keep working on similar exploratory projects about women in underprivileged conditions due to questions about gender power relations and privilege that were preoccupying him. Khokha was the result, but it was quite the challenge and quite the learning experience. He learnt more about their life patterns, such as what time of the day would be appropriate to engage with them in conversation/take photos. Description An account of the resource "Khokha" is the Arabic for "Peach", Name of a small street in Coptic Cairo and the nickname of Khadija. Khadijah's husband left her in the 70's and people started calling her Khokha, Then till today, All the men in that small street either left their wives because they couldn't withstand the life in a slum Or they died, Now it's a street only for women, Single mothers, either widows or divorced, it's a place where everybody is taking care of everybody. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sabry Khaled Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://sabrykhaled.com/stories/khokha-street-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available It was supposed to be published in that magazine, but it ended up in another news outlet called Hibr. https://www.7iber.com/2015/01/photos-khokha-women-only/?%3E 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, Arabic Type The nature or genre of the resource 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: Cairo Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015 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 Sabry Khaled depicting women Egyptian photographer exterior male photographer multiple people per image https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/cc6645fa365b3a9b7d195fb826533a03.jpg e4cb3d58f21895107245162d119ca6bc 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 Khokha, street for women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: Khaled was assigned to work on a project with Sally Osama; they were working together on a magazine that was supposed to be funded by the Sawiris Foundation, but the project fell apart. They were trying to find examples of marginalized women in society. Khaled had worked already on a project focusing on women who had lost their partners (published in Egypt Independent, currently Mada Masr), which had given him some access to certain groups of women who he would have otherwise not have access to. He wanted to keep working on similar exploratory projects about women in underprivileged conditions due to questions about gender power relations and privilege that were preoccupying him. Khokha was the result, but it was quite the challenge and quite the learning experience. He learnt more about their life patterns, such as what time of the day would be appropriate to engage with them in conversation/take photos. Description An account of the resource "Khokha" is the Arabic for "Peach", Name of a small street in Coptic Cairo and the nickname of Khadija. Khadijah's husband left her in the 70's and people started calling her Khokha, Then till today, All the men in that small street either left their wives because they couldn't withstand the life in a slum Or they died, Now it's a street only for women, Single mothers, either widows or divorced, it's a place where everybody is taking care of everybody. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sabry Khaled Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://sabrykhaled.com/stories/khokha-street-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available It was supposed to be published in that magazine, but it ended up in another news outlet called Hibr. https://www.7iber.com/2015/01/photos-khokha-women-only/?%3E 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, Arabic Type The nature or genre of the resource 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: Cairo Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015 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 Sabry Khaled depicting women Egyptian photographer exterior male photographer single person per image https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/10c88a2d51a82842cbb79725469215c4.jpg 2043525421595722ad3f3e3025122101 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 Khokha, street for women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: Khaled was assigned to work on a project with Sally Osama; they were working together on a magazine that was supposed to be funded by the Sawiris Foundation, but the project fell apart. They were trying to find examples of marginalized women in society. Khaled had worked already on a project focusing on women who had lost their partners (published in Egypt Independent, currently Mada Masr), which had given him some access to certain groups of women who he would have otherwise not have access to. He wanted to keep working on similar exploratory projects about women in underprivileged conditions due to questions about gender power relations and privilege that were preoccupying him. Khokha was the result, but it was quite the challenge and quite the learning experience. He learnt more about their life patterns, such as what time of the day would be appropriate to engage with them in conversation/take photos. Description An account of the resource "Khokha" is the Arabic for "Peach", Name of a small street in Coptic Cairo and the nickname of Khadija. Khadijah's husband left her in the 70's and people started calling her Khokha, Then till today, All the men in that small street either left their wives because they couldn't withstand the life in a slum Or they died, Now it's a street only for women, Single mothers, either widows or divorced, it's a place where everybody is taking care of everybody. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sabry Khaled Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://sabrykhaled.com/stories/khokha-street-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available It was supposed to be published in that magazine, but it ended up in another news outlet called Hibr. https://www.7iber.com/2015/01/photos-khokha-women-only/?%3E 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, Arabic Type The nature or genre of the resource 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: Cairo Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015 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 Sabry Khaled depicting women Egyptian photographer exterior male photographer multiple people per image https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/12d206cbde27b39369b1010044c16f87.jpg 23b3b97f853c0c95fff030588a73a491 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 Khokha, street for women Subject The topic of the resource Motivation: Khaled was assigned to work on a project with Sally Osama; they were working together on a magazine that was supposed to be funded by the Sawiris Foundation, but the project fell apart. They were trying to find examples of marginalized women in society. Khaled had worked already on a project focusing on women who had lost their partners (published in Egypt Independent, currently Mada Masr), which had given him some access to certain groups of women who he would have otherwise not have access to. He wanted to keep working on similar exploratory projects about women in underprivileged conditions due to questions about gender power relations and privilege that were preoccupying him. Khokha was the result, but it was quite the challenge and quite the learning experience. He learnt more about their life patterns, such as what time of the day would be appropriate to engage with them in conversation/take photos. Description An account of the resource "Khokha" is the Arabic for "Peach", Name of a small street in Coptic Cairo and the nickname of Khadija. Khadijah's husband left her in the 70's and people started calling her Khokha, Then till today, All the men in that small street either left their wives because they couldn't withstand the life in a slum Or they died, Now it's a street only for women, Single mothers, either widows or divorced, it's a place where everybody is taking care of everybody. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sabry Khaled Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://sabrykhaled.com/stories/khokha-street-women/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available It was supposed to be published in that magazine, but it ended up in another news outlet called Hibr. https://www.7iber.com/2015/01/photos-khokha-women-only/?%3E 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, Arabic Type The nature or genre of the resource 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: Cairo Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015 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 Sabry Khaled depicting women Egyptian photographer interior male photographer single person per image https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/ed48cf7d0a72eb81f9869dc0214290e1.jpg 2aa98c850d18de3af9adbef08c838a43 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 depicting women Egyptian photographer female photographer interior still life studio https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/9057fad6bdbcad54a998ed391a277cba.jpg 73bf5695c07ffeb37a93ec9ff4080f54 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 depicting women Egyptian photographer female photographer interior still life studio https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/baac24b8f5ebc9081d5bd82ce6e25b7d.jpg c8e3af64d8ebfb17c890a960597efa1c 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 studio https://omeka.beyncollective.com/files/original/3a67dc983063b1611d12396a8432853b.jpg de1d9a998c65edab4f49f075ed09ff0e 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 depicting women Egyptian photographer female photographer interior still life studio 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 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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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