Fayoum Pottery

R. Neil Hewison, author of 'Fayoum Pottery: Ceramic Arts and Crafts in an Egyptian Oasis' (AUC Press, December 2021), takes us on a short visit to the beautiful oasis of Fayoum, located 100km southwest of Cairo, to discover the art of the local pottery makers.

The Fayoum, a broad, fertile depression in Egypt’s Western Desert, known for its great salt lake, its rich green fields, and its unique pharaonic and Greco-Roman remains, is also home to three very different centers of pottery production—Kom Oshim, Al-Nazla, and Tunis.

Today Fayoum pottery is sold in Cairo, London, and New York.

'Fayoum Pottery' is lavishly illustrated with over 250 full-color photographs of unique designs and rare methods, providing an in-depth look at the pottery produced in the Fayoum.

To order the book, go to https://www.amazon.com/Fayoum-Pottery...

Hewison is the author of 'The Fayoum: History and Guide' (AUC Press, revised edition 2008) and the translator of 'After the Nobel Prize 1989–1994: The Non-Fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz Volume IV' (2020), as well as fiction by Yusuf Idris, Yusuf Abu Rayya, and Gamal al-Ghitani. He lives in the pottery village of Tunis in the Fayoum.

Video footage, images, and narration by R. Neil Hewison. Edited by Ingrid Wassmann.