
Nima Sagharchi
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"..For Tahia Halim, ochre is capable of embodying one whole world. It is a colour so evocative that it epitomises this world and intensifies within it a full interaction of Egypt's milieu and ambience. It faithfully typifies this ambience and shows, naturally speaking, the result of being drenched in Egypt's characteristic heat and sun. It is a local colour in the full sense of the word. It is all-pervading; in the Nile alluvium, the baked pottery, the tops of hills girding the green valley, the swarthy faces and the walls of houses"- Mohamed Shafik, 1969