Authors: Fr. Marcos A. Marcos, Helene Moussa & Carolyn M. Ramzy
Published by St. Mark’s Coptic Museum, Scarborough, Ontario M1W 3E2 Canada
www.copticmuseum-canada.org WATANI International
18 October 2009
A New Book
Marguerite Nakhla (1908 – 1977) is considered one of the pioneers of the 20th century Modern Egyptian Art Movement. In 1975 she was recognised as the leading Egyptian woman artist in the first half of that century. Her canvases offer a mosaic of life that surrounded her. She intentionally used different styles to best interpret the subject matter of the paintings and to best communicate her message(s).
Within this diversity, one cannot fail to recognise how the touch of her brush and the use of her colours evoked a deeper meaning in the language and poetry of her art. The mosaic of her works on the cover of this book symbolises this diversity. This book reproduces and discusses eighty of her works. St Mark’s Coptic Museum is fortunate to have in its collection a series of six biblical scenes in folkloric style in which she reinvented early Coptic art in modern form.
Marguerite Nakhla’s legacy is that of an accomplished artist who used her technical skills to create a compelling repertoire of paintings and icons.
About the Authors
Father Marcos A. Marcos serves as the Protopriest at St Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Church in Scarborough and is the President of the Board of Directors of St Mark’s Coptic Museum of which he is the founder. He was Assistant Professor of Psychology, Pastoral Counselling and Church Education at the Coptic Theological Seminary in Cairo before being
commissioned to his present ministry.
Helene Moussa is a sociologist and was on the teaching faculty at the American University in Cairo, Egypt; the Haile Selassie I University in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; and the University of Toronto, York University, and the Centre for Christian Studies in Toronto, Ontario. Since 1999 she has served as the Volunteer Curator at St. Mark’s Coptic Museum. Throughout her professional career, Helene has published several books and many articles.
Carolyn M. Ramzy is a doctoral candidate of ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music. Her research specialises in non-liturgical folk songs of the Coptic community, diasporic studies, as well as music and collective memory. She has been published in ABCCLIO History Reference Online. Carolyn serves as the Secretary to the Board of Directors
of St. Mark’s Coptic Museum.
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