Visitors have often remarked on the light of Egypt. There is something about the soft diffusion of sunlight in the country that makes it visually special. Beginning in the early nineteenth century a combination of that light and the new, more sensitive technology of lithography conspired together to allow artists to capture with unprecedented fidelity the countrys monuments, Pharaonic as well as Islamic.
But there is another way in which the word ""light"" captures the reality of Egypt. In Arabic it is said that the blood of a people is either ""light"" or ""heavy."" Where the blood of...
Visitors have often remarked on the light of Egypt. There is something about the soft diffusion of sunlight in the country that makes it visually spec...
