DOLL FOR A BEDOUIN WOMAN

This is a doll for a Bedouin woman from Sinai, made by my aunt Mrs. Ensaf El-Batal انصاف البطل. She worked as an artist in the Arts Academy in Egypt اكاديمية الفنون, where she created artefacts, paintings, clothes, props, and decór for the Egyptian theatres and TV shows. On her retirement in 1996, she travelled in trips to Siwa, The Sinai (El-Arish), and Marsa Matruh to study the "fashion" of the Bedouin societies around Egypt. She then created the Bedouin doll, which shows the different costumes worn by the different Bedouin tribes across Egypt. It also serves as a mannequin as she also makes the dress as well. On the birth of my daughter, she gave us this doll as a present. We called her نعناعة specifically to teach my daughter how to pronounce the letter ع.

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Moataz Attallah - Sheikh Zayed, Giza, Egypt