Photo composites “ Ancient Egyptian motifs”
Recently I have started to experiment with photo compositing, aka photo manipulation ….
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I’m coming back with a “Sea of Love”
“Watch the documentary trailer of a life transforming journey that has miraculously turned Mr. Brian into a Sufi Dervish that lives, dress and indulge in a sea of Egyptian love”
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“The West is up against the East; that is what this incredible film comes down to”
Read more "300: Rise of Prejudice (Film Review)"(film)The Pyramids – story of creation الاهرام – قصة التكوين
Ashraf Ezzat’s short film opens up a new visual window that rediscovers the beauty and mystery of ancient Egypt with its lingering wonders of masonry and myth.
Read more "(film)The Pyramids – story of creation الاهرام – قصة التكوين"The Egyptian
Watch my short video, one minute plus, in which I have tried to visually sum up the story of the Egyptian revolution 2011-2013
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“Several documentaries are now being released about the Arab Spring, many focusing on ground zero for the protests, Cairo’s Tahrir Square”
Read more "Documenting the Arab Spring: Tahrir Square on Film"The Sphinx
“I think, one of the most astounding facts in the history of man that a man was able to contain within his mind, to conceive, the conception of the Sphinx.”
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‘Masr’, Egypt in Arabic, is a short video Javier Morgade has done with some shots of people and places he met in Egypt while he was there in December 2009.
Read more "MASR: the power of the image"Evolution of Ancient Egyptian Art over 3000 Years
” Was the ancient Egyptian art defiant to change?”
Read more "Evolution of Ancient Egyptian Art over 3000 Years"Egyptian Revolution Songs
Songwriter/Performer Ramy Essam Sings: ‘Bread, Freedom, Social Justice’; Rappers Protest the ‘Lies of the Military’ against Backdrop of Graphic Images of Security Forces’ Brutality in crushing the Egyptian revolution.
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Beethoven’s Heroic Battle
“O god – grant me at least but one day of pure joy – it is so long since real joy echoed in my heart” … Ludwig Van Beethoven
Read more "Beethoven’s Heroic Battle"Akhenaten’s Hymn to the Aten
O sole god without equal !
You are alone, shining in your form of the living Aten.
Risen, radiant, distant and near.
Great Hymn, 47 & 73-74.
Egyptian Films Dominate US Film Festival
11 movies from Arab world spotlighted at the Washington DC International Film Festival.
Read more "Egyptian Films Dominate US Film Festival"Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth
“Perhaps the legacy of Akhenaten, that changer of religion yet “Dweller in Truth” (with a capital “T”), lies in that all humans ought to search for the truth; it may be that then they will discover religion quite unexpectedly.”
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Revolution is a wonderful and intriguing word, what is wonderful about it, is the illusionary heralding of a new dawn with a whole set of principles by which all men everywhere can declare their own freedom. But that is something easier said than done.
Read more "Arab Spring Blossoms For Islamists"London Philharmonic Suspends Musicians for anti-Israel Remarks
“According to The Guardian, musicians sanctioned after they signed a letter condemning the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra as an instrument of Israeli propaganda.” the guardian A report in UK daily The Guardian stated that the London Philharmonic Orchestra has suspended four of its musicians for nine months for adopting its name when they called for […]
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“And then I looked farther, beyond the pallid line of the sands, and I saw a Pyramid of gold, the wonder Khufu had built.”
Read more "THE PYRAMIDS"Steamy lesbian sex — in Tehran
Potential art-house hit “Circumstance” goes inside the hidden youth culture of contemporary Iran
Read more "Steamy lesbian sex — in Tehran"Beethoven’s Eroica: the Symphony that Changed Music Forever
“What a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended my life. It was only my art that held me back”
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Ashraf Ezzat 