Drowning Nubia

About the artist:
Effat Naghi, Mohamed Naghi’s much younger sister, was a self-taught artist and one of the first in Egypt to use mixed media on the surface of her paintings. She was also the first Egyptian female artist to introduce Fauvism into her art. In 1964, Nagy joined the group of artists selected to visit the building of the Aswan Dam. Rather than celebrating the mega-project in her artwork, Naghi portrayed the villages that were flooded by the project.

For more, see Youssef Limoud's article 'Dreamers and Rebels' from Rawi magazine's Issue 8 available online (link in details).