Al-Ahram Weekly Online   13 - 19 February 2003
Issue No. 625
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The greatest of sculptors
Gamil Shafik considers the substance of nature and art at the Eighth International Symposium on Sculpture and ponders what makes an artist of the Western Desert

The Badr phenomenon
Badr Abdel-Moghni Ali was born in Farafra Oasis in 1958. He is a "spontaneous artist", the kind who falls in love with his surroundings and discovers within himself an artistic gift; a gift he employs to enhance and preserve the beauty he has found in the traditions and nature of the oasis..

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