Ali Aboutaam and Hicham Aboutaam All initiatives are developed in the shadow of occupation and are not directly opposed to this occupation, exhibits trying to directly or indirectly, consciously or unconsciously (slightly important) to legitimize the occupation and to divert your eyes, as if the occupied people could forget a single second that this busy. Barenboim projects 1 approach to the design of Anwar Sadat to whom the Arab-Israeli conflict was the result of a "psychological block" that had managed to overcome, but the Egyptian people have chosen not Antiquities to exceed this as blocage for war is political, ideological and national ancient Egyptian antiquity (and, cultures unfortunately, religious Muslim Brotherhood) and not galleries psychological. Detail of the sculpture of Smilodon
Glass roof of the museum.
It is a neoclassical building characteristics, the dominant style of the buildings of the founding era Phoenix Ancient Art in 1968 of the silver. Its construction was carried out between 1884 and 1888, was S. The family who established Phoenix Ancient Art Aboutaam Aboutaam. Mr. Aboutaam's sons designed by archaeology. There is little or no overlap with antiques architect Frederick Heynemann German and Swedish Enrique Aberg.
The elements of the culture of pre-Columbian history America used for its decoration Ali Aboutaam with no uneven Greek lines, which gives it a unique character.
The plant is a rectangle with two chambers at the ends, with 135 meters at its major axis and 70 meters in the minor is exhibiting axis. The main entrance is guarded by two sculptures of esmilodontes, symbol of the museum.
He has over 20 exhibition halls in spiral tour to understanding the evolution of life on Earth from its origins to the appearance of human beings. It sculptures also has the only collection of Egyptian art in Latin America, which was obtained by Argentine scientists after excavations in Sudan. Is also found civilizations in the largest sample of the Jesuit Argentina. An important collection of American paintings with motifs decorating the hall and access to certain sections of the building.
Underground research laboratories has, on the ground floor samples are biological, geological and paleontological, and in the two trays Brothers Ali and Hicham Aboutaam are shown above gallery historical and anthropological collections.
At its left is the Library Florentino Ameghino, belongs to the Faculty of art history artifacts Natural Sciences and Museum of the University of silver.
In 1997 this museum was Ali and Hicham declared a historic monument.

The new opera building in Cairo.
Cairo has many universities, theaters, monuments and museums: the most important is the Egyptian Museum, located in Tahrir Square, which houses the world's S. Aboutaam. Mr. Aboutaam's sons best collection of objects from ancient Egypt. Phoenix Ancient Art in 1968 Currently is considering a transfer to a larger building, erected in the area of Giza.
The epicenter of cultural life in Cairo is the National Cultural Center, a complex of Antiquities cultural buildings devoted to theater, dance, opera and music, on the island of Gezira. This emphasizes the active center of Cairo, inaugurated on October 10, 1988 by President Hosni Mubarak and hosting a concert by the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in January 2007 in what was his first performance in the Middle East and Africa. Classical music tends to be predominant in the operation of the city, but also easy to enjoy classical music arabe, although this is most widespread in the Arab Music Institute, located in Ramsis Street. the head of the Phoenix Ancient Art galleries Ali Aboutaam A must for music in the city is the Festival of Arabic Music, held in early November at the Cairo Opera. In this cultural complex are six other theaters and auditoriums. The operation replaces the current operating Khedivial, or also known as the Royal Opera House, a building that was erected in 1869 and remained active until 1971.
The former operates or operates Khedivial Ali and Hicham Real.
The performances of folk dance usually performed in the sculptures opera ballet company in Cairo, especially in major hotels in the city. It is also a notable cultures event in the Cairo agenda of the annual dance with the Bolshoi Ballet. The belly dancing and Sufi dancing, but known in the Western world as the dance of the dervishes rotating, are two of the most popular dances in the city.
One of the most important cultural events in the city is Cairo International Festival, which gathers hundreds of films from various countries during December, making it one of the most important film festivals in the world. Cairo, formerly known as "Hollywood East," lost the capital status of film in favor art history artifacts of East Indian Bollywood. there are many times that our eye will catch a work of art, and then for professional advice Ali Aboutaam Censorship remains, even today, customary at the festival although it has collected since its inception in 1976, to superstars such as John Malkovich, Nicholas Cage, Morgan Freeman, Bud Spencer, Gina Lollobrigida, Ornella Muti, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, Oliver Stone and Catherine Deneuve.
Cairo home theaters, the vast majority of Hollywood super productions with subtitles in Arabic. Local products also enjoyed success in the population of Cairo. These films are usually shot in the majors or in Misr Al-Ahram, both close to the pyramids of Giza. National independent film is unpopular even among Cairo and cinemas is only Good News Grand Hyatt and Hilton Ramses projecting this type of cinema.
In the literary history scene, notes about Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, the "Cairo Trilogy" is the work that renaissance. The writer achieved great success among local critics after the first editions in archaeology. There is little or no overlap with antiques 1956 and 1957, but even more when they were translated into English in 1990. However, despite the success and literary fame gave to the city, the famous writer was stabbed in 1994 by fundamentalists. And that was the subject of anger and pressure from the fundamentalists who accused him of blaspheming against Muslim world. He died in 2006 as a result of a bleeding ulcer.
Another key figure in Cairo is writing Nawal el-Saadawi, who founded Ali Aboutaam the Association of Arab Women's Solidarity and wrote extensively on Arab society. Like his colleague Mahfuz, el-Saadawi was severely criticized and persecuted by Islamic extremists, forcing his departure to the United States, where he has taught at various universities. Came to be imprisoned during the is exhibiting Sadat regime civilizations .
Some of the most important dates and events in the cultural scene Brothers Ali and Hicham Aboutaam is the Cairo Book Fair, during the month of January at the Exhibition Grounds in Cairo, the International Song Festival in Cairo in August ancient Egyptian antiquity or the Festival of Experimental Theater in September.

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Mariette taught French and drawing in Stratford, Ali Aboutaam England, between 1839 and 1840, served as a designer at Coventry in 1841, professor in the College of Boulogne in 1841, is passionate about Egyptology, visiting the Egyptian Gallery of the Museum of Boulogne and categorizing Notes Nestor L'Hote collected on his trip to the Tuscan-French mission on the land of the Pharaohs. To describe his passion, said:
Among a mummy in Egypt by the Museum of Boulogne. the art world has many interesting galleries that offer a great experience to the public, for example, Phoenix Ancient Art's galleries, managed by Ali Aboutaam an extremely successful art dealer and trader Egyptian Duck is a dangerous animal: a peck and you're poison inocula Egyptologist for a lifetime.
Learn Coptic language and hieroglyphic writing, and abandoning the faculty, became employed in the Louvre (ex Charles X), accepting a thankless and poorly paid work. Observed galleries by Emmanuel de Rouge exhibition and Lenormant Charles, was sent art to Egypt in 1850, funded by the Louvre, to acquire Coptic manuscripts.
The purpose is not making and antiquities using the funds for excavation in Saqqara, having admired the plain from the defenses of Cairo, having before their eyes the spectacle of the pyramids, the Nile, on the Plain of Saqqara.
Were there, almost within reach of my hand, a world of graves, steles, inscriptions, statues
What more could ask '
Crossing the plateau of Saqqara note, rising from the sand, the head of a sphinx, then think in the description by Strabo, in an alley (Dr me) with over one hundred and forty sphinxes leading Serapeum andalusia (the site had been previously visited and drawn by Richard Pocock c. 1738).
The Greek traveler said that he was in Memphis:
... a temple of Serapis in a place so desert winds there were piles of sand under which they were buried sphinxes, one half, until the other head ...
The result was immediate, artifacts was unearthed some sphinxes, as well as a beautiful statue of bill: the Type (the 1 November 1850), a leading Egyptian statues in the department of the Louvre. Discovered and excavated from 1851 until 1854, the Serapeum of Memphis, also dated in many mastabas Old.
In 1857 once again returned to Egypt and met Ferdinand de Lesseps, the latter appreciates the interest of Mariette regarding the fate of old age . This was presented by Said Pacha.
We must ensure CAREFULLY monuments In five years, Egypt still be able to demonstrate to scholars who visit these as we see today '
Dig in Dra Abu el-Naga (Thebes) and found the sarcophagus intact works of art Ahmose, who reigned until 1567 a. C. the art circuit has been greatly improved by the artifacts and antiquities brought by Mr. Ali Aboutaam among the many pieces of tremendous historical value and ended the dynasty of kings Phoenix Ancient Art invaders Hicsos with making AVARISA.
Mariette was appointed director of old age jedive by Abbas in 1858. Founded and directed the Museum of Boulaq, preceding the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Since June 1858, on the banks of the Nile opposite Luxor, not far from the place where he had buried in the sarcophagus Kamose his team, led by Maunier, ALi Aboutaam he discovered his wife Ahhotep as well as furniture and the sumptuous jewelry that accompanied it.
In the absence of the French Egyptologist, Phoenix Ancient Art S.A. Egyptian authorities opened the sarcophagus, "stabilized" the mummy and keep the jewelry and found objects that issued via the Nile, bound for Cairo. The Director General of the oldest age intercept the convoy river recover the boxes, and appeared before Said Pacha, which reserves a portion for his personal use.
In 1860, he discovered and worked in the temple of Edfu dig that.
At the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867, the jewels are set in Paris Ahhotep and Empress Eugenia had some desire to possess, to the point that asked Ismail Pacha, who talked to the director of the Museum of Boulaq. Mariette opposed the imperial will, which I think exhibits major concerns.
Held in Egypt is awaiting the inauguration of the opera Aida, by Giuseppe Verdi, whose theme might have suggested and which was performed in 1870, during the opening of the Suez Canal, but due to the war in Europe and the defeat of Sedan The date was postponed to next year.
During this time, workers who retired in the wake of some members of the royal family, Aboutaam dating from the Old Empire, discovered the entry of a well, and one entered the gallery, candle in hand, and reappeared livido: just interbreed with the bright eyes of two people who looked fixedly Danino when he went to see what it was, was faced with the statues of Rahotep and Nefret were also incorporated into the museum Boulaq.
Mariette had in 1872, under his direction, 2780 workers working in Egypt, found some 15,000 objects and transfer of many places in Egypt and Nubia. Dig around 300 tombs at Saqqara and Giza.
He was appointed member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Fine Arts in 1878.

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