You'll want to check out this book by a fabulous Egyptian artist: Chant Avedissian : Cairo Stencils, edited by Rose Issa.
A Rose Issa quote found online:
Avedissian integrates 20th century Egyptian iconography with pharaonic symbols, Islamic geometric and abstract patterns and the flowery baroque motifs of Ottoman decor. In his large stencils, images of historical characters, names, landscapes, objects and symbols intertwine and overlap. Painted with local pigments and bordered by hand-coloured textiles, they are celebrations of his nostalgic memories.
Read about Chant in the Beirut Daily Star.
I'm ordering my copy of Cairo Stencils from my local bookseller. Update: it won't be published in the USA until April, 2006, but it seems to be available in the Middle East already.
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