Menhat Helmy and the Emergence of Egyptian Women Art Teachers and Artists in the 1950s

The rise of Egyptian women artists and art teachers at the end of the 1940s appeared in tandem with an active women’s movement that asserted the agency of women in modern Egyptian public life. In this article, we discuss the art career of Menhat Helmy (1925–2004), a 1949 arts graduate of the ma`had...

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Main Author: Patrick Matthew Kane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-09-01
Series:Arts
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/11/5/95