Under the title of “Egypt talks handicrafts”, Egypt’s hugely popular annual heritage handicraft and cottage industry fair, Diarna, is currently running at Egypt’s Cairo Festival Mall, the Cairo eastern satellite town of al-Tagammoa al-Khamis, Cairo.
Running till next 9 March, the 66th round was opened on 23 February by Egypt’s Social Solidarity Minister Nevine al-Kabbag.
This year’s exhibition witnesses participation of the National Council for Persons with Disabilities (NCPWD), side-by-side with exhibitors from the Red Sea, South and North Sinai. The guests of honour are Sudan, Syria, Palestine, Mauritania, Djibouti, and Somalia.
According to Iman Karim, a Professor at the Faculty of Languages and Translation of 6th of October University, and supervisor of the NCPWD, participation of the NCPWD comes within the framework of the economic empowerment of persons with disabilities who display their handmade self-manufactured products. The NCPWD helps them in marketing their products.
“Their handcrafts,” Dr Karim noted, “include leather goods, wooden products, stained glass, accessories for women clothes, Ramadan lanterns, traditional appliqué work, and furnishings.”
“Diarna”, literal for “Our Homes”, started off in 1958, sponsored by the Ministry of Social Affairs—today the Ministry of Social Solidarity—under the name “Productive Families Fair”. The aim was to market products of cottage or home-based industries in order to help families increase their income. It has steadily grown, today featuring products from all of Egypt’s 28 governorates, and has expanded to include goods produced by craftsmen and micro industries, also a few public sector companies that sell at discounted prices personal and home products in high demand by the public. It now opens in various cities across the country at different times of the year, generating good revenue.
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