When I left Baghdad and returned to Alexandria, he had moved to Cairo to work on his first theater production of, Edwar El Kharrat, co-founder, was a member of the Egyptian Communist party in Alexandria as a young man and most of. Ahmed Morsi is a modern and contemporary Egyptian artist, poet and art critic. Morsi was first elected to parliament in 2000. In the 1950s, he simultaneously studied literature at Alexandria University and painting at the studio of Italian master Silvio Becchi. Art was now for everyone. Ahmed Morsi, Camera Department: Lahzat harega. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. I am not partial to names that give form and meaning and place things of importance into a much smaller space. I taught myself French so I can read their poetry in its original language. In 1954, he graduated from the University of Alexandria, Faculty of Arts with a major in English Literature. }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); An artist, poet, and critic, Ahmed Morsi traverses creative disciplines, and works in both visual and textual mediums. The Alexandria School I referred to earlier and to which I belonged, was a collective of artists who “lived surreally” and “created surreally”. The avant-garde magazine Galerie 68 that you co-founded in 1968 with Edwar Al Kharrat, Ibrahim Mansour, Gamil Atteya, Sayed Hegab and others was Egypt’s voice of modernism and a cultural source. I was given an entire page in the local newspaper. Ahmed Morsi (b. Ahmed Morsi, Sound Department: Paparazzi. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. Besides being its editor-in-chief, I was also the magazine’s art director. I left Alexandria in 1955 for Baghdad not knowing if I’d stay and then I stayed two years. It was an art form I knew nothing about. https://www.almasryalyoum.com/news/details/2000009, The Libyan Accord mobilizes West Sirte, and Algeria refuses to arm the tribes and announces a solution plan, FilGoal | News | Barakat: If Al-Badri and I were present, Amr Warda would not be back in the Nations Cup squad, Munjid was killed by a young man because of his refusal to marry his daughter in Gharbia, Referral of the dietician harasser in Bani Mazar to criminal offenses, Is Sadat the “Mr. I believe each of these is a separate domaine. He moved to Baghdad, Iraq in 1955, where he taught English to supplement his two-year stay, but primarily to sever his dependence on his beloved city, Alexandria and its influence on him. Returning to Egypt, he moved to Cairo in 1957. Subscribe to receive the most important news. The death of the Egyptian actor Ali Abdel Rahim, Moroccan reports: Carteron wants to hire Walid Karti, Criticism of Sarah Salameh over “Ya Me Ya Jeddou” series. try { Worked as Assistant Secretary of Defense. googletag.pubads().setTargeting("allow_adx", "true"); with a numerical and qualitative approaches . Other projects with Al Gazzar included a book of Morsi’s poetry alongside Al Gazzar’s drawings. with a numerical and qualitative approaches . And when I paint, I rarely write. Do you feel culture and art can shape a country’s civil society and help keep the memory of an era, the memory of a history alive? 193 Fut draft pacybits EP. - Designed stage sets and costumes for the first play written by Alfred Farag, “The Fall of the Pharaoh”, - Co-designed with Abdel Hadi Al Gazzar stage sets for the American play “Bury the Dead” by Irwin Shaw, - Designed stage sets for the first play written by Abdel Rahman AL Sharkawi, “The Tragedy of Jamila Bohreid”, 1949 Published his first collection of poems, “Songs from the Temples / Steps in Darkness” - Alexandria, 1957-1974 Covert activities in the art scene in Egypt for the “Second Program” on Public Radio and participated in the “Culture News Around The World” radio program - Cairo, Artist's Book: "Song for Cairo", poem by Salah Abdel Sabbour, prints by Ahmed Morsi, Artist's Book: "Cavafy Suite", poem by Constantin Cavafy and prints by Ahmed Morsi (1990). In 1976, like many artists residing in the NYC area, he took up the art of printmaking at The Art Students’ League and added yet another dimension to his creative tools and in the last 20 years, the Artist embraced photography – the last art form to be included in Ahmed Morsi’s extensive palette. You are an artist, poet, translator and critic, do you separate each of your creative fields from each other when working or do they at some point all connect together in your work? There have been only a handful of instances when I reacted to regional politics.