Stories from Cairo's historic Street of the Tentmakers, its craft and its people
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Seif El Rashidi is an art historian who graduated from the American University in Cairo's Islamic art program. He specializes in the management of heritage projects involving community engagement, and has worked for ten years in cultural preservation in Cairo's al-Darb al-Ahmar, the tentmakers' neighborhood. Much of his research and writing is about the Islamic world and its visual heritage.
Sam Bowker is a lecturer in art history and visual culture at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga, Australia. He completed his PhD at the Australian National University in 2011 and has published on aspects of khayamiya since 2012. He curated Khayamiya: Khedival to Contemporary for the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia in 2015-2016.
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